10/28/10

[physics]

"oh look! its the mystery force!...come back..."

[calculus2]

-"can we shut the door?"
"No! I will shut the door...so you cant!"
-"..oh"

"If I let P be less than 1, it BLOWS UP!'

"which is interesting because its finite and squooshed...whatever...its whatever"

"we're waving our hands pretty vigorously at this thing"

"that is a good one...I wont elaborate"

"the exponential function kills everything"

"this is something we need to remember about how numbers work"

"Someone may jump out of the bushes at you and hold a gun to your head and demand to know if an integral converges or diverges. Now, in the thirty seconds they give you, you can figure it out....maybe they'll give you cake if you get it right"

"its hard when you are stuck in this maze of crap to remember what you are doing. oh yeah, I'm doing something meaningful"

"No one? these problems were a cakewalk? oh maybe you were studying for the quiz..."

"if I add one to something, it gets bigger, thats how it works"

"the 1/x guy is bad at both sides"

10/22/10

[GIS]

"even fourth level Jedi knights run into this kinda stuff. Is it AND or OR?"

"we hit verify to check it, and no, that dog doesn't hunt"

[Calculus 2]

"*tiny sneeze* ...whoa"

"it seems that we've got two different answers, and thats because we have"


"I could work it out, but I dont want to, so I wont. So there"

"sins and arcsins are useful and good to remember...but they are kinda weird"

"its like we are anthropomorphizing the integral and calling it rude...or crude or vulgar"

"and that equals 1/2...so thats life"


[Physics]

"We're going to do the same thing we always do...try to take over the world..no, we're going to draw diagrams"

"gravity is kinda the odd man out"

"you could believe him, but then you wouldn't be able to sleep at night"

"try it with your fuzzy dice in your car from the rearview mirror"

"you are an ant sitting on your dashboard  and suddenly the fuzzy dice just come out of nowhere and hike themselves off backwards. 'what is happening?" you say. You say that."

10/21/10 [calculus2]

"AUGH!!!!!" he chucked the pen across the room as a class-opener.


"lame one number five"

"I couldnt see it; it was too close"

"maybe I should just ask you if there were questions you worked out that didnt work out that you want me to work out on the board. Right now."

"and now we've proved 0=2"
- "thats not the answer in the book!"
"...you got 0=2 as well?!"
-"many sources say 0=2"
-"I got it right."
"what did I do wrong?"
-"I dont know" 
the dashes are student responses.


"thats a lot of crap"  referring to the very long problem on the board.


"algebra has a half-life of error...no its more like a Poisson distribution or whatever. But its ok, we dont care that much. So its whatever"

"I hate saying 'this is a rule and you should remember this'"

"and lets keep going we can keep going"

10/20/10 [physics]

"whats that show where you can call a friend? You know. You can call a friend. You can call bunches of friends. You can call anybody in this class"

"If you call it Bob, and you call that other thing Bob, then the two had better equal each other"

"you know sometimes we make wrong turns and that's ok. We can do this all day"

"Then you put your algebra hat on and start wading in though the weeds"

From the Beginning of the Quarter to today...[calculus2]

"when you know something, you know it, you feel it, but you could be wrong, so that's weird..."

"I seriously don't understand why we think we know anything about anything ever...so that's good and now we're going to do math and I expect you to believe it"

"i know that this is what I know"

"maybe it works, let's see if it works"
-"this is eminently doable"

"did i do something wrong again?.. i hate doing things wrong"

"but i guess.. its time to move in...this is what i have decided" (what?)

"if you do that again, I will rain down fire on your heads" he tried to be funny, and it wasnt as funny as it usually is when he doesnt try


"so i have to do some addition and multiplication in my head, and i dont wanna hafta do that"

""its almost like magic!...it isnt really magic"

""this problem would be so much easier if you do a yup-stitution." he meant substitution.


"that was kind of a dumb satanic chuckle"

"I'm rushing through this because these are things that wont work"

"that would be a vigorous waste of time"

"i got one right, this is working out!"

"the best way to do this is just  to LOOK at it"

"If its after the Zombie Apocolyse and computers arent running and you need to do a complicated integral, now you know how to do it" my personal favorite

From the Beginning of the Quarter to today...[physics]

"there's a THIRD vector to this party!"

"Let me rewrite that suggestively..."

"Solutions run around the internet like viruses"

"there's a part of your brain going 'what the heck is going on here??"

"have you ever tried to walk on a light boat? its hilarious if its not you."

"i have small hands, and I hold 'em up all the time against gravity, and I dont have a problem with that."

"and then you just turn the algebra crank"

"Dog Calculus: I dont even like dogs and I find this fascinating"

"and then it will crawl up the ramp and that would be alarming!"

"have you ever pulled open a stuck drawer? you pull and pull and pull and then it comes rushing out at you and all the silverware is on the floor"