I know, I know, I know I still owe the last installment of my Matlab series. I do apologize, but grad school is happening again, as it does. I'll get to it eventually, I swear...
However, these two gems were just too good to pass up:
Gem #1: In my mining geophysics course today, we learned the proper definition of a geophysicist, as originally published in Northern Mining:
"A geophysicist is a person who passes as an exacting expert on the basis of being able to turn out with prolific fortitude infinite strings of incomprehensible formulae calculated with micrometric precision from inconclusive experiments carried out with instruments of problematic accuracy by persons of doubtful reliability and questionable mentality for the avowed purpose of annoying and confounding a hopeless chimerical group of fanatics known as geologists who are themselves the lunatic fringe surrounding the hard-working mine operator."
Accurate, every word of it. Although I am a little disappointed that I don't get to be "chimerical".
Gem #2: I also ran across the following when clearing my desktop of approximately 5 years worth of clutter. I cannot attest confidently to its provenance, only to say it smacks strongly of a certain Male Parental Unit of mine....
"And lo for he who praises the Lord shall receive unto him proportional understanding of the mass which lay below his feet. And God spoke "Let the firmament have a multitude of kinds and shall each hill and valley be corrected as free-air, " and He saw it and it was Bouguer."
And now, if you'll excuse me, I have some lightening bolts to dodge.
