----------------------------------- Tony Thu Feb 16, 2006 3:38 pm Reading Week ----------------------------------- Well seeing as 75% of my courses fall under arts this term (thx in part to the fact that Engineering Ethics is a Philosophy course), I will be taking advantage of the upcoming Reading Week and will be going away. I'll be back Feb 27th 8-) :all: :dance: ----------------------------------- Dan Thu Feb 16, 2006 3:46 pm ----------------------------------- Dang ritch arts kids going to cuba for the week, meanwhile i will be at home working on get V3 to the aplaha testing state. ----------------------------------- md Thu Feb 16, 2006 4:12 pm ----------------------------------- You people and your "week"... I get 4 days; including the weekend. Hopefully I'll get to go somewhere, but most likely I'll get to stay home and do something nifty in the way of programming. ----------------------------------- brenn Thu Feb 16, 2006 4:32 pm ----------------------------------- Well, the other 25% of Tony's course load is Math ^^; I suppose this means that I have the Math/Arts reading days xD yey! ----------------------------------- Amailer Thu Feb 16, 2006 6:02 pm ----------------------------------- HA! I had a snow day today, BEAT THAT. And In march i'll have another week off, YEAH. ----------------------------------- MihaiG Thu Feb 16, 2006 6:35 pm ----------------------------------- HA! I had a snow day today, BEAT THAT. And In march i'll have another week off, YEAH. so did i....and cervantes also :roll: ----------------------------------- Cervantes Thu Feb 16, 2006 7:58 pm ----------------------------------- First snow day for me since grade 9, too. :) Have fun, Tony! *waves* ----------------------------------- md Thu Feb 16, 2006 8:34 pm ----------------------------------- I had a snow day todya too; and I'm in university! ----------------------------------- Mazer Thu Feb 16, 2006 10:31 pm ----------------------------------- Damn you and your freezing rain! wusses... ----------------------------------- Dan Thu Feb 16, 2006 11:33 pm ----------------------------------- We don't call them snow days here, we just call them days. So far this year we whould have had tones of days that whould count as a snow day in other parts of the provicen but nothing shuts down here. The only time i have seen somthing clanced due to the weather here is when it gets so cold that the pies break and the heating failes or when a prof can not get black b/c planes are not crazy enought to land here. Aucatly i got this cheap thermomoter the other day that i think was free from some where that is sposend to let u see the temp outside inside and it aucatly forze and broke the glass. I think they where using like colored water in it or somthing and it was not ment for high negitve temps. ----------------------------------- chrispminis Thu Feb 16, 2006 11:47 pm ----------------------------------- I haven't had a snow day yet and I live in the GTA. :( I really want one. I used to live in Winnipeg where it gets REEALLY cold. I don't even know when they allowed us to stay home, but I remember going to school during a week where the mornings were -54 ish give or take 4 degrees Celsius. also, the rule was we had to go out for recess unless it was colder than -27 when it was deemed dangerous for prolonged exposure. During -50's i remember walking out of the house and feeling my lips freezing. And people used to take pails of HOT water and pour it over their windshields to melt the ice cover, but unless it was wiped off quickly, it froze over as well, within like 15 seconds. ----------------------------------- Dan Fri Feb 17, 2006 12:05 am ----------------------------------- I was born in Winnipeg, i now live in Thunder Bay just a few KM to the right =p. -50 and lower days are not fun. Tho some times u get to see the water cryctes in the air frezz and it makes a cool fog. ----------------------------------- Andy Fri Feb 17, 2006 8:48 am ----------------------------------- they said winnipeg was -39 degrees this morning.. ouch.. anywho, dan, i dont think using "right" is necessarily the best way to discribe directions lol ----------------------------------- codemage Fri Feb 17, 2006 9:53 am ----------------------------------- Well, when I was young, we didn't have snow days either; the name was redundant because every day had snow. Every once in a while, it would go over -50 degrees, and that would be a beach day. Usually there would be three or four metres of snow on the ground at any time. Sometimes we'd have winds up to 100 km/h, and that would shift some of the snow around. We'd call that a thaw. The only time we could actually make it to school was during the wooly mammoth migration period. It was dangerous, but if you made it halfway to school through the blizzardous snow, slit open a mammoth and jump inside to regain your body heat AND if you didn't lose any of your books in their internal regions... you could make it the rest of the way. ----------------------------------- Delos Fri Feb 17, 2006 10:16 am ----------------------------------- All the elementary schools around Mac had a snow day yesterday, but our dear admin decided to keep us open. I guess it was a good decision since we actually weren't hit by the storm itself. Ah well, I don't care, since Reading Week is here! Huzzah for that. I'm totally looking forward to catching up on some much needed sleep...though for some reason I do see myself spending a significant amount of time keeping up with Organic Chemistry. Bloody mechanistic overlord that it is... Enjoy your hols Tony, and anyone else going anywhere refreshing. ----------------------------------- Dan Fri Feb 17, 2006 1:29 pm ----------------------------------- they said winnipeg was -39 degrees this morning.. ouch.. anywho, dan, i dont think using "right" is necessarily the best way to discribe directions lol I know i was trying to be funny. Tho if u had a map with noraml directions (ie. north being up) then it realy whould be to the right =p. ----------------------------------- MyPistolsIn3D Fri Feb 17, 2006 3:00 pm ----------------------------------- I had a snow day today and yesterday. Ha! 2 in a row. ----------------------------------- [Gandalf] Fri Feb 17, 2006 4:50 pm ----------------------------------- Hmm... I haven't had a snow day since grade 4. :( ----------------------------------- Brightguy Sat Feb 18, 2006 10:57 pm Re: Reading Week ----------------------------------- I actually walked to class on Thursday only to find everything closed - even Tim Horton's! They can do that? It didn't even cross my mind that it would be a 'snow day' since it wasn't so bad out. Like Dan said, snow days are rarely called in Northern Ontario. Tho if u had a map with noraml directions (ie. north being up) then it realy whould be to the right You live in Lake Superior? :lol: ----------------------------------- md Sat Feb 18, 2006 11:53 pm ----------------------------------- Tims was closed?! The Tims on the corner by my house was open... good thing I didn't go to campus. ----------------------------------- Dan Sun Feb 19, 2006 11:04 am Re: Reading Week ----------------------------------- Tho if u had a map with noraml directions (ie. north being up) then it realy whould be to the right You live in Lake Superior? :lol: Yes ----------------------------------- brenn Tue Feb 21, 2006 12:35 am ----------------------------------- I want reading week to be over, because I want Tony to be back, so that he can feed me T___T *Hungry* *hasn't eaten anything since lunch of yesterday, other than a banana, a dinner roll, and some crackers* ----------------------------------- Dan Tue Feb 21, 2006 1:06 am ----------------------------------- *wishs he was not called in from reading week for an "engergacy" borad meeting of LUSU* ----------------------------------- md Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:19 am ----------------------------------- I want reading week to be over, because I want Tony to be back, so that he can feed me T___T *Hungry* *hasn't eaten anything since lunch of yesterday, other than a banana, a dinner roll, and some crackers* See now that's just sad... there's food at the supermarket! ----------------------------------- brenn Tue Feb 21, 2006 6:03 pm ----------------------------------- See now that's just sad... there's food at the supermarket! But the supermarket's across the street T__T There's also food in my room, I just don't really want to live off crackers and tea. ----------------------------------- Cervantes Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:04 pm ----------------------------------- Brenn, duct tape. It can solve your hunger problems in more ways than one. I offer three: 1. Eat it. 2. Get another friend to go to the supermarket for you, then hang the tape out the window. The friend will stick your food onto the duct tape, then you reel it in. 3. Use it to lasso yourself to anyone going to the supermarket. This saves you from walking, though you'll still have to stand up to go through the cash lines. ----------------------------------- person Tue Feb 21, 2006 9:25 pm ----------------------------------- 3. Use it to lasso yourself to anyone going to the supermarket. This saves you from walking, though you'll still have to stand up to go through the cash lines. 4. Use duct tape to lasso the supermarket, and reel it into your room. ----------------------------------- md Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:28 pm ----------------------------------- 5. Ask friend to come over. Kidnap using duct tape to bind wrists and prevent sreaming. Hold ransom for food. (6. Profit!) ----------------------------------- Cervantes Wed Feb 22, 2006 6:10 pm ----------------------------------- 5. Ask friend to come over. Kidnap using duct tape to bind wrists and prevent sreaming. Hold ransom for food. 5.5. Make a hangman's knot using duct tape. Hang friend. Fry, and eat. ----------------------------------- Andy Wed Feb 22, 2006 8:57 pm ----------------------------------- Okay, that is so wrong its not even funny... ----------------------------------- chrispminis Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:03 pm ----------------------------------- How is it wrong? I think at the moment its still free speech on the internet :) And Cervantes, a good tip is to cut him up into smaller chunks first. Increase in the surface area fries him faster :) Also Extra Virgin Olive Oil goes well, and masks the stench of Iron, as does generous heapings of salt and pepper :) ----------------------------------- Mazer Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:35 pm ----------------------------------- And Cervantes, a good tip is to cut him up into smaller chunks first. !!! The bigger they are, the more pieces you can chop 'em up into! +110 ultra-bits for whoever identifies that quote correctly. To be fair, I'll say that I may not have gotten it 100% correct. ----------------------------------- md Thu Feb 23, 2006 2:06 am ----------------------------------- And Cervantes, a good tip is to cut him up into smaller chunks first. !!! The bigger they are, the more pieces you can chop 'em up into! +110 ultra-bits for whoever identifies that quote correctly. To be fair, I'll say that I may not have gotten it 100% correct. Damn, google doesn't help at all. But my god there are some strange things on the internet... ----------------------------------- Andy Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:48 am ----------------------------------- i googled that phraise and ended up at at [url=http://www.mythbustersfanclub.com/html/ming_dyansty_astronaut.html]this site.. now thats wack ----------------------------------- codemage Thu Feb 23, 2006 9:20 am ----------------------------------- The bigger they are, the more pieces you can chop 'em up into! Sounds like Wolverine to me. :twisted: ----------------------------------- Mazer Fri Feb 24, 2006 10:29 am ----------------------------------- The bigger they are, the more pieces you can chop 'em up into! Sounds like Wolverine to me. :twisted: I hereby give you my mod privileges.* Your 110 ultra-bits should be ready within the week, and you'll be able to pick them up in #compsci.ca EDIT: Damn you cruel Internet! I can't find the quote (and countless others) anywhere. The fact that it's from the animated series and (probably) not from the comic books doesn't seem to help. Oh well, I know what I'll be doing this weekend. *Note: I can't actually do that. ----------------------------------- chrispminis Sat Feb 25, 2006 4:00 pm ----------------------------------- You could always try WikiQuote :) http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page ----------------------------------- Cervantes Sat Feb 25, 2006 6:15 pm ----------------------------------- Thought about that. Looked. Did not find. Thought about adding Coutsos' approximate version to the page, and waiting for it to be corrected (if at all). Didn't. Could. ----------------------------------- codemage Mon Feb 27, 2006 10:31 am ----------------------------------- Googled : "The bigger they are" wolverine Got : "The bigger they are, the more peices they make" - Wolverine, (as quoted in X-Men : Legends, and animated cartoon) ----------------------------------- Mazer Mon Feb 27, 2006 12:04 pm ----------------------------------- Your Google-fu wins. I could've sworn it had "chop" in there, but all's well that ends well. See if you can find another one. Went something like "Work for him?! I'm here to tear him a new navel!" This was in reference to Apocalypse, IIRC. ----------------------------------- brenn Mon Feb 27, 2006 12:52 pm ----------------------------------- ... I love how this topic has completely spun away from it's original intention xD I don't have any yummy friends to eat unfortunately, but Tony's back so I shall get him to feed me yummy food. :D Hopefully I won't eat his new iPod ;o xD ----------------------------------- Tony Tue Feb 28, 2006 3:24 pm ----------------------------------- don't eat the shuffle! :shock: besides, it's a Nano anyways. as my girlfriend points out - I am, in fact, back - so her feeding patterns should restore to normal. I'll upload some pictures later. All the pictures of me are on my buddy's camera and I am yet to get them. ----------------------------------- brenn Thu Mar 02, 2006 11:35 pm ----------------------------------- What about the ones you took (Or did you not take any)? ----------------------------------- Tony Fri Mar 03, 2006 12:06 am ----------------------------------- well here's a picture of the lizard I was chasing around the room for a good 5 minutes when I've gotten to the resort. Darn, those things are fast! http://www.compsci.ca/v2/download.php?id=3799 ----------------------------------- md Fri Mar 03, 2006 4:59 pm ----------------------------------- Damn you and your going to Cuba... you should have given some of that cuba money to me! ----------------------------------- brenn Sat Mar 04, 2006 1:00 am ----------------------------------- well here's a picture of the lizard I was chasing around the room for a good 5 minutes when I've gotten to the resort. Darn, those things are fast! http://www.compsci.ca/v2/download.php?id=3799 O_O CUTE!