On Feb 21, 2:14 am, Jerry wrote:
On Feb 21, 4:14 am, Eric Gisse wrote:
Jerry wrote:
On Feb 19, 9:28�am, Tom Roberts wrote:
Apparently you missed the fact that Uncle Al did not answer the question
(he responded with an incoherent spew of jargon indistinguishable from
nonsense).
Insults from Uncle Al are of no account.
I've never understood why Uncle Al seems to be so respected by members
of the sci.physics.* newsgroups. His ability to spew out superficially
impressive jargon fails to hide the fact that he is really not any
sort
of expert in relativity. Chemistry, yes, especially organic
chemistry...
but physics??? He lost any residual respect I might have had for him
when he started the "Toodling near lightspeed - NOT!" thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.p...hread/1beddb85....
Of all the things you could get butthurt about, you chose this?
That was merely the last straw. When he goes around insulting my
favorite newsgroup posters, I can get really riled.
Seems an odd choice though. I disagree with his idea given that -
locally - nothing can and will change, but it isn't especially dumb
even if you don't take into account the typical value of "dumb" on
this newsgroup.
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On a different topic, you're almost through with your undergrad
degree, aren't you? Where are you planning to go afterwards?
Yes - I was hoping for this spring but it turned out to be a little on
the optimistic side. I have no idea what, if anything, I'm doing for
grad school.
I was in a really aggravating situation with some disallowed
transfer credits, so for a while I didn't know if I was actually
going to graduate this year, but things finally got straightened
out. To give you an idea of just how STOOPID the whole situation
was:
Advisor: "We can't allow this one. It was an upper level course,
and you took it while you were still an undergraduate
without having taken the necessary prerequisites."
Me: "But I got an A!"
Advisor: "You shouldn't have been allowed to take the course.
Your advanced placement advisor gave you wrong advice."
Me: "But I got an A!"
Jerry
I'm going to be unhappy if that situation hits me because the same
conditions apply.