Fall 2005

Oh, I lied again.
[Mechanical Engineers] who are taking this course as an elective probably have Matlab spewing out of every orifice.
[The test scores] all work out in the wash.
…the usual first—day poopsheet.
We will work in pairs of two in this lab, we have 10 students in here. That's…(long pause)…5 groups.
You always use SI if you want to sound smarter.
There are all sorts of things in your house that are related to thermodynamics—whether you like it or not.
[Unix] is like beer.
I just about erased a hole in the page. What's going on?
Now to answer his question: what in the bloody hell do we use this for?
[I'm] going to kill you with definitions today.
Thou art an even elementary product.
[The radioactive sources] come in two flavors.
Hopefully the arithmetic module up here (taps forehead) is working today.
This version is just too damned complicated for anyone to remember.
This is one of those days where it's difficult to operate the chalk and speak simultaneously. Good thing I'm not chewing gum.
You may want to pay attention here.
It's not good to get hit in the back of the head with a 2X4.
When the hammer doesn't work, you may need to get the BF hammer out.
Pat, I would like to buy an ordered triple for x₁, x₂, and x₃…Wrong! Next contestant spins the wheel.
I'm playing "Guess what I'm thinking" right now.
At no point did my hands leave my wrists during that complicated math operation.
That smells like a transformation.
The difference is the handout doesn't talk to you…Well I sure as hell hope not.
Check my boardwork; I'm dangerous today.
The fit has hit the shan or something like that.
…what are typic…(trips over words)…ptew, talk much? What are typically expected—Second day with a new mouth—What are typically expected…
I have to threaten the overhead…
And now, for the fun part: drawing a straight line on the board between the two points…(draws line)…there we go, just draw over it a bunch of times…(draws over line multiple times)…Do that on your fancy CAD system!
I'm lost without my laser pointer.
Picture an icosahedron…
You can contemplate whether half of an infinite plane is smaller than an infinite plane. Probably would help if you're drunk or stoned at the time.
What we have here is one of our preliminary tableau jobs. Did I just say that?
The development of the velocity profile looks like this…(draws velocity profile)…That's a nice sketch, but what does it mean?
Unfortunately, the fan blades have been browner than usual the last couple of days.
If you get the answer right, I don't care.
Weird things amuse me.
I'm 8/10ths the speed of light. I'm almost as fast as the gingerbread man.
[The overhead] is pissing me off.
This is a big—ass LPP.
This is a 1/20 scale; the real one is much bigger and can crush you.
The brown chalk is lonely, it never gets used…(writes on board)…That's not very visible, perhaps that's why I never use it.
This is Zeta, which stands for the Greek letter Zeta.
The Nusselt number equals 3.66 plus some other stuff.
This is the point where people just start making shit up.
This is like that woman in the airplane movies.