A short post this time, just because I need to get something out of my head.
FAIL is a verb, damn it! As in I fail, you fail, he/she/it fails ...
It is neither a noun* nor an adjective. You can't say "That's an epic fail". Nor can you say "I'm so fail". Win is the same. Okay? Otherwise you just sound like a chav with an IQ significantly lower than your age**.
* Well, actually it is, but it means a turf in Gaelic. So unless you want me to start translating `fail' as `sod', and therefore developing a belief that you really do find grass enthralling, please stop using it as a noun.
** To all those people older than 100 using either of these words as a noun or adjective, I can't really say anything against you - you've clearly led a pretty good life, and deserve to spend a few years p***ing off the rest of us.
Saturday 24 October 2009
Sunday 18 October 2009
My Graduate Family Tree
Wikipedia is a wonderful thing. I knew that my primary advisor's advisor (my grandadvisor) was Teddy Bullard, one of the founders of modern geophysics, but I had no idea until recently how my direct family tree would pan out. I've put it below; it'll grow more branches over time, but I've kept with a (more or less) direct line from advisor to advisor.
My advisor: Dan McKenzie (first paper defining the principles of plate tectonics)
My grandadvisor (GA): Teddy Bullard (one of the founders of modern geophysics)
My GGA: Ernest Rutherford (Father of nuclear physics and Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry)
My GGGA: J J Thomson (Discoverer of the electron, isotopes, and Nobel Prize winner for Physics)
My GGGGA: John Strutt (3rd Baron Rayleigh; discovered Rayleigh scattering, which makes the sky blue, predicted the existence of Rayleigh waves and discovered Argon, winning him the Nobel Prize for Physics)
My GGGGGA: Edward Routh (Developed the theory of mechanics)
My GGGGGGA: Augustus de Morgan (de Morgan's Laws, introduced and developed the theory of Mathematical Induction)
My GGGGGGGA: William Hewell (Coined the terms 'scientist' and 'physicist')
Makes me feel quite inadequate, really.
My advisor: Dan McKenzie (first paper defining the principles of plate tectonics)
My grandadvisor (GA): Teddy Bullard (one of the founders of modern geophysics)
My GGA: Ernest Rutherford (Father of nuclear physics and Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry)
My GGGA: J J Thomson (Discoverer of the electron, isotopes, and Nobel Prize winner for Physics)
My GGGGA: John Strutt (3rd Baron Rayleigh; discovered Rayleigh scattering, which makes the sky blue, predicted the existence of Rayleigh waves and discovered Argon, winning him the Nobel Prize for Physics)
My GGGGGA: Edward Routh (Developed the theory of mechanics)
My GGGGGGA: Augustus de Morgan (de Morgan's Laws, introduced and developed the theory of Mathematical Induction)
My GGGGGGGA: William Hewell (Coined the terms 'scientist' and 'physicist')
Makes me feel quite inadequate, really.
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