Kopaka's Ice Engineering

Convention holds that 5 minutes for a graduate assistant, 10 minutes for a professor, 15 minutes for a Ph.D. If the facilitator of the class is not present during that time, class is assumed cancelled.

Convention, but that was not policy at McNeese. If the teacher shows up after that deadline and no one is there, everyone is considered absent.

-KIE, who unsuccessfully tried to skip class twice during 5 years of undegrad classes, but the teacher skipped the same days so they didn't count....so KIE quit trying to skip class

And means if T were still on staff, there'd be a wager between he and BR.

-KIE

CFL

For some reason, I don't like LSU. I root for TN and ATM.

Rocky Top, oh Rocky Top...you'll always be second in the SEC....

Who is ATM?

-KIE

That's V'Ger's array from Star Trek: The Motion Picture, isn't it, Bink?

-KIE

Correction: "All your time are belonging to us"

-KIE

If it means getting a staff discount at the hotel where BF is being held, heck yeah, we'll get ya through it again.

-KIE

The one.

The only.

Billy Madison.

-KIE

No...you were there in cardboard cutout.

Doesn't count.

-KIE

Pshaw.

Class of '97 represent.

-KIE

That was a couple of weeks ago, Than.....you should have your first paycheck shortly....where's the update?

-KIE

Okay, if it's bloody short, that means the stylist cut your scalp more than once or twice.

I recommend not sitting in that stylist's chair again. *authoritative nod*

-KIE

I liked it.

-KIE

But dude, I haven't seen Barq's served from a tap in a while...

Well, except at Raising Cane's.

 

Please tell me you have eaten there before, KIE.

Cher, that was the first place to open back up after Katrina. Of course I've eaten there.

(second was Rally's burgers.)

-KIE

Schizo and I are making plans for crashing the 2009 party.

Wanna join in?

-KIE, who may yet go before then.

I've already said that if we can find a way for your protégé, Commander Than, to get him to Brickfest, I would make an effort that year.

2009 you say? Certainly then.

-KIE

If ye be lookin' fer mates who keep th' Quarters fav'rited, need look nae further than roit 'ere.

-KIE

You can drop the periods and just call me "KIE".

Pleasure meeting you, Rikmeister, and all the staff who I now have voices and faces to go with names.

-KIE, who was never told his softball team went 4-9 on Saturday, but did pick up 4 misprint Matatu (red, blue, green, black)

!!

T now works at BW3?!?

DUDE! Find out what they did to the Caribbean Yerk sauce last year, and make 'em undo it! What was a sweet peppery is now a sneezy peppery bleh!

BW3 = KIE's favorite place for wings

-KIE

Edit: since spelling it with a "J" gets pounded out, even though that's the name of the sauce...

And then there was the 'hush hush'ing the 'hush hush' thing...

But what would I know about that?

-KIE

Free at last, free at last!

Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

-KIE, who is curious about this "really big project"

A similar remodeling took place in 1995, while I was a sophomore in high school, at my parents' house.

I know your dad will hate to hear this, but 11 years later, it's still being tweaked.

-KIE

Yes, the wonderful spreadsheet it is, Microsoft Excel.

Y'all don't worry: I'm going to post Rayg's side of Wednesday on my own blog tomorrow evening.

Equal time, I say.

-KIE

Eh, you have the right idea, but the execution failed ya.

d/dx e^garbage = e^garbage* d/dx (garbage).

Never split off between variable or constant, just pass the derivative through. If it's a constant, the derivative will be zero and you'll get your nothing.

The above was a favorite quote of my statistics professer in grad school.

Man, I did not look forward to that class.

-KIE

Eh, not had much calculus since leaving college, Windy. Engineering is much more of an applied mathematics/science.

Although, I did get a minor in mathematics, so I do know my way around the closed integrals like the one you posted on your blog a while back. What that particular one said, in essence, was mass = mass.

Anyway, can you tell me what the derivative of e^garbage is, where e is Euler's Number (2.7128....)?

-KIE