08-27-2006, 03:14 PM | #1 |
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Would you send your kid to this teacher?
In the trolley car a teacher is staring at least 15 minutes at my Segway.
The teacher looks like a teacher that no student want to have: DIY-knitted pullover, DIY-knitted socks, shell-rimmed glasses... After 15 minutes of staring and thinking he ask me: "sorry, I am a teacher for physics....ähm, äh ...Does it work with batteries?" "Yes, Good bye" Was this the most intelligent thing he could ask? When someone, with a propeller on the back, would fly ten feet high over the sidewalk, he would also ask: "Does it work with batteries?" Would you send your kid to this teacher? What will this teacher teach your kids??? sick Rob |
08-27-2006, 04:50 PM | #2 |
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I'd guess he spent a lot more time studying physics than studying current culture. He sounds like on of the physics professors at my college. Brilliant, but couldn't come out of the rain.
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He would then have commandered the Segway ridden on it until the batteries died, all the while developing, in his mind, a recharging system so he wouldn't have to stop. Brilliant man, brilliant mind with a few synapses that sometimes misfired, but when he broke loose from the physics mold, he really was a blast to be around. Oh did I mention he was a Germanic Jew who left Germany at just the right time? That 98% of the time he was very Germanic (read proper) and could bore you to tears? That the 2% of time he broke loose was at our parties, which he came to regularly (all 5'2" or so of him) and drank Margaritas and Sloe Gin Fizzes like there was no tomorrow. I can almost picture him now, riding off into the sunset, Margarita in one hand, hair flying in the wind, and a gleeful yell trailing behind him. I kind of miss the old coot! Steven |
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08-28-2006, 01:23 AM | #4 |
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Physics Geeks Unite!
Hey, easy on us physics geeks! Perhaps that was just his introductory question and the questions were going to get deeper. Perhaps he thought that if you couldn't answer THAT one, there was no reason to ask you about the solid-state gyroscopes.
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08-28-2006, 09:08 AM | #5 |
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Wait! YOUR seg has batteries?!? I thought they all ran on cold fusion generators like mine. I am so confused...
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08-28-2006, 11:10 AM | #6 |
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Nah, Karls, your's is the ultimate pimped product. I won't get cold fusion until I get the levitation model.
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08-28-2006, 01:44 PM | #7 |
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I tell people that my segway runs off the screams of children.
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08-28-2006, 02:02 PM | #9 |
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I use the older style of children's screams. I get less range, but they are safer to take on the plane!
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08-28-2006, 07:05 PM | #10 |
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My physics instructor taught me "There is no such thing as a dumb question, if you truly don't know the answer"...
The obvious isn't always so. Investigate the 'Heisenberg Uncertainy Principle' and you'll see what I mean...
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