Which is only more hilarious when you consider his kick-ass ex-nun of a wife, whom he called the "boss of Zulsdorf".

My impressions are the same as your impressions. (I have an ELCA minister in my family (my dad too, actually) and teach at an ELCA college)

I actually did not know that, thank you. I

Bookmarking this so I can give it to my students (especially the Windows users). I really prefer getting PDFs for the digital assignments I assign (as opposed to the endless stream of Word Docs and somewhat random formats that don't always open properly).

Thank you sincerely for bringing the science and expertise to this discussion.

See, now I want to experiment with this! I embroider too...I've bled on plenty of my own work. BUT I also costume, and not always myself. But I have yet to make anyone I'm pinning into a creation bleed (usually it's just me that bleeds, but I'm just like that...)

Yeah, the modeling community needs to be careful what they claim. I should know. I always end up having to put in a good paragraph about what's not in my magnetism models when I write something up. What am I not accounting for. Because it really matters to your results. With one of the models I use, turning on or…

Exactly! I'm coming at this from a physics perspective, and I've had people ask me why don't we just model everything perfectly. Because the most intricate models we have (the ones that start from first principles, but that are still so flawed it can't get the bandgap of GaAs right) requires 3-4 days to model 64…

Oh, I get it. :) In graduate school, as part of our research group meetings, we had to bring articles in to present, and we would pick them apart. Learn to recognize "spin" when we saw it. Science is full of all kinds of BS (which I can say as an imperfect person doing imperfect science), but the conspiracy…

I can't bring myself to actually wade into this, but I really want to thank you for doing it. As a scientist and educator, I sincerely appreciate what you're doing here.

I love that picture with all my heart. :D

I wish I still had Mathematica! D: (No license at my little school). Nah, my code is either in C++ or Matlab (though the Matlab is on a government server and I do not understand it at all).

Being a sleep-deprived prof isn't much better. I seriously once, during a 7:30 am lab, had a student (who was supposed to be in another class) race into my lab, gesture wildly and babble about orange juice, and then disappear. This was a real event, but I was absolutely certain I'd hallucinated it until about three…

I should take one of my desk full of printed out WHY DON'T YOU WORK, CODE?!?!

Sleepless nights FOR SCIENCE. I hope you got your data. D:

I have really nice eyebrows — they're just very blonde. Brown eyeshadow or eyebrow powder - VERY lightly. No pencils, ever again, for me.

I usually just smudge some brown eyeshadow (though I might have actual eyebrow powder somewhere) when I want to look "serious". Though I do it less when I'm back to my natural blonde, it's a must when I'm rocking the red hair.

I came in prepared for eyerolling...but nope. I actually think there might be an onion ninja outside my office...

That just makes me cringe. On both counts. No one should be made to feel like a failure for needing a doctor. Isn't there enough stigma against people with mental illnesses?Plus, both the medical-need dismissal and the more-enlightened-than-thou attitude are just actively pushing away people who might find some…

I can spell, I just can't spell on the board. I end up with very colorful fingers from my whiteboard markers. :)