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It's direct airways. They don't answer the phone. Ever. The pilot who was supposed to fly us to ny said there might not even be a flight tomorrow. The scheduled flight at 7am is fully booked.

Great news. We were told the flight was going to be here at 9 pm. Announcement at 9:20 pm stated due to severe weather in ny (1 inch of rain according to every god damn fucking weather website) te flight was cancelled with no clue as to when the next flight will be. No refunds are given since weather was cited as a reason. This was supposed to be my last vacation in a very very long time - at least a year bc of upcoming mcat prep and applications and what not. She was looking forward to it so much (as was I) but its not fucking fair. Not fair at all. They just closed the counter and left. Do I have any leg to stand on in terms of a refund? I can't afford to pay for another flight that leaves tomorrow with another airline unless I can get a refund with this one. Are the airlines completely off the hook if they site weather as a reason for cancelling the flight? As Vicki said its hot as hell down here. An inch of rain up north. Now I'm fucking pissed.

gf struck down all attempts of fun at the airport so I'm stuck with the interwebz. ;( we both had a laugh at john's comment. grahame she called you a genius (for saying something she came up with a few minutes ago). i am feeling slightly better.

update from the most annoying fucking place on earth. flight that was supposed to leave at 3 is now leaving at 9:45pm. this means we can't get a rental car in the airport so no trip to niagara falls on the lakes blaaaaaaaah. fucking fog.

Snow boots are not where I thought they were. Haven't used them since I left mass. Leaving in an hour with cold cold rain when we land tonight frozen toes will not be fun. Oh well. Off to foreign lands to see water fall from a high ledge.

Happy birthday sir

Focus screen it is. The lens is a 35 1.4 ari. The sigma went back to the seller bc the back focusing issues were absurdly bad.

i just got the rokinon lens in the mail and the focus confirmation light is going off when the subject is not actually in focus. the rokinon lenses are notorious for being incorrectly calibrated. how does one go about fixing this? or is it something that can be dealt with in the camera? the af micro adjustment only really works on af lenses. would a nikon service center be able to look at the combo and offer a solution? i had issues with the sigma lens back focusing also but it turned out to be the lenses fault. this lens also seems to have an issue with the focus. could something be off with the body?

if you are looking for reliability go for at least a t series. i don't know of anything more reliable in the pc world. x series if it needs to be portable but I'm guessing if its on one of those cart things that you can wheel the projector around with, the weight doesn't really matter. bigger screen might make it easier for teacher. so 15" t series?

Shelly that desk is waaaaaay too clean to be a Mathematicians desk. Where is all the paper with rejected proof ideas... Just to end things, the dean asked the director to grade me only on the things i answered which i didn't like because i tried to answer all the questions i could instead of answering a few completely. Then a second exam was suggested which the director didn't like obviously. The dean offered to give me an oral exam so she didn't have to do the extra work. I instantly agreed. The director bitched about it but then agreed. I answered all questions to his satisfaction (and to her annoyance). Walked out of his office with an A. Also had an organic chemistry lecture exam this morning which i kicked ass on. 3 more tests, 2 lab reports and a take home quiz due by Thursday. Friday, 3pm, flight to niagara falls with a pretty girl at my arm.

just saw someone on campus walking around with a d3s and a 14-24. spoke with him for a bit. played with the camera for a few minutes. the thing is a fucking tank. makes the d7000 look reasonable and the nex 5 a baby.

Happy bday sir

the funniest part is that her excuse for being such a pain the ass is that the rigor we are put through now is going to prepare us for research later on. research where you can't talk to the person standing next to you, can only use a particular kind of scientific calculator, must NOT use a computer, must write ONLY in black ballpoint pen in special notebooks that have the professors name on them. i lost 12 points out of 50 for running out of tape in the middle of the lab and not being able to borrow some from my neighbor and as a result not being able to tape in the 6 print outs from lab analysis into the notebook. -1 for each of the 6 pages not taped in and -1 for all the references made to the crap that wasn't taped in. the very last lab before the midterm, i was docked 10.5 out of 50 for not using "enough tape" and making flipping pages tedious for the ta. I've done a wee bit of research, albeit not in a lab setting, but never have i heard or come across such draconian and arbitrary bullshit. you grown up people that have jobs and stuff - do you have to face such crap?

congratulations sir

That Ron Paul thing was awesome.

The deans office was one door down from mine. We both were there on weekends. He welcomed students to go in and speak with him directly rather than dropping off paper work requiring his signature. So at a least in the math dept he knew all the grad students who took an extra 5 minutes to make small talk. I never shook his hand though. He never washed his hands after using the facilities Beefy that thought did cross my mind and this would be the second time in all my years as a student when I went to the dean with a problem. I've always done the indian thing of keeping quiet and taking it but this was just a blatant circle jerk IMO. Cobra I started off trying to determine limits on parameters for exploiting arbitrage opportunities between us and Indian currencies given current limitations on hardware for high frequency trading. Was only able to come up with something reasonable for var. got bored of that kinda quickly so then looked at how the assumptions would change if we started removing bottlenecks in the Hft process. For instance everything that is done in practice would change if the latency for incoming financial data were 2ms for all firms regardless of how far they were from the exchange or what kind of connectivity they had. Further assumptions had to be made but I found a few saddle points. Some assumptions led to complete nonsense as expected. Others allowed the model to stabilize after running for a few days. Got into some good financial engineering programs but it wasn't something I enjoyed or wanted to do anymore.

the calculator wasn't needed as a safety net as is quite frequent with students these days. calculations needed to be done with numbers out to 4 decimal places which are tedious to say the least. no ak 47s. like jim, i allowed students to use all the resources he mentioned. if the student knows what he is doing, he won't need any help from a "resource." if the student doesn't know whats going on, the books and computers will only waste time so it works out quite well. i wrote an email to the dean, who has been exceptionally kind to me in the past, explaining the days events including as many direct quotes from the ta and the director as i could remember. waiting for his reply. thanks for the help all.

So I walk into the lab with a graphing calculator. TA says I can't use it for the exam even though we have been using them all year. I show her there is nothing on the calc. All the memory on the calc is free. These sheeple are so stupid that they follow rules blindly without giving in any thought to reason or rationality. I didn't want to argue and time was running so I ran back to my car and came back in 15 minutes with my scientific calculator which was not acceptable because it solved definite integrals. Then I lost my cool. The test has nothing to do with calculus. It is fucking organic chemistry. But it is the fucking departmental policy to only allow scientific calculators even though thats exactly what it says on the top of my scientific calculator. I waste another 20 minutes to go to the bookstore and buy a shitty calculator, come back and find my TA being an enormous thundercunt - "its been too long. you need permission from the director to continue the exam." i go to the director and explain all this. she reports me to the dean for academic dishonesty for trying to use a calculator that i was not allowed to use and for claiming to have done graduate work in math. obviously no one in the history of the fucking academia has ever gotten a phd in math and then pursued another discipline. i go to the dean. he recognizes me from the 3.5 years i spent on his floor doing math. tells me he will call the director and i can take the exam. i go back. the director sends me back to the ta. ta gives me the test with only an hour for a 2.5 hour test. the test wasn't hard but with essentially 15 pages of information to be written, time was the decisive factor and i wasn't able to finish. no where in the syllabus are graphing calculators outlawed. and even if they are i don't see why i was not allowed to use my scientific calculator. at this stage should i go back to the dean and tell him that i wasn't allowed to take the test in the 2.5 hours. trying to figure out if i deserve an honest second chance here or if i am being unreasonable.

Just got out of an Orgo lab midterm. It was annoying. I hate organic chemistry. I was to kill my lab ta and the lab director.

i don't get it

you are getting some good use out of that sous vide machine colin. how easy is it to clean? for someone who eats in paper plates and has now gone down to plasticware. this mode of meat/food preparation is of interest to me.

i thought the highest speed available was 45mb which is what i had. but when i was looking for a larger card for the d7000, i found the 95 mb you mention. i don't know about cf but 95/90 seems to be the fastest available sd cards.

looking for another way to waste your time? like portal. only slightly different. http://www.kongregate.com/games/ArmorGames/this-is-the-only-level-3 well maybe not.

Amazing image jon

I like the last one. If only the guy was looking at the girl. Would have been nice.