Steamboat McGoo approached me the other day and said “Lemur King, I would love to collaborate on a paper, but I must be top billing and I get to name the misshapen progeny that will result from such a union.
Wanting to flex some brainicles a bit I agreed to his proposal and we worked feverishly on this document that we hope to publish in the Albanian Mathematical Society of Our Lady of Perpetual Menses. Their peer review cycle is generally only as long as it takes to clear a $40 check and requires no edits. Beware, McGoo’s mind is a deep one and his papers should not be taken lightly – I was lucky to be able to include my name. The link will bring you the PDF document (compiled in LaTeX)
ADIABATIC INFLATIONARY THEORY OF
MAMMO-GROUPS IN THE PRESENCE OF TACTILE
MANIPULATION: AN EXCITATIONAL TENSOR
APPROACH
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Kittens grow fast. Ours quickly becomes a demon. Here you see a small kitten in the coat rack, which she has recently decided is a suitable cat-perch. She is in Urban Kitten mode, where she blends passably well into her surroundings.
Below is Melody Demon Song taking a breather and planning out her next ambush on Sir Jack L. Katt and Mdm. Jilly of Boo.
Here she is looking a tad bit less demonic and just skilled at whatever she is doing.
Lemur King's Folly 
Your paper is missing reference #42, attributable to D. Adams.
Cute kitty, a real acrobat you have there.
Still owe you an email…
I see the evil. It only naps. Evil never sleeps.
I love snooping at other peoples bookshelves. Stephen King, books on black holes, analytic geometry, and vector calculus, etc. (Yes – I embiggenified)
Looks just like my shelves, except I see no Heinlein, Asimov, Larry Niven, Michael Connelly, or integrated circuit design or semiconductor device physics books. Must be an ME’s shelf. 🙂
Melody is simply looking for some light reading – like maybe Skolnik’s Radar Handbook. Or Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
Yes, vector calc, my astronomy books from when I was a kid, Neal Stephenson… I will find a more representative shot for you. There is some Asimov, one or two Nivens, Clark, Pohl, Chalker, Attanasio, etc.
I am much better than an ME, I am an Opto-Mech with aero and space markings… Infinitely more useful and humble, too. Just ask anyone.
No, Melody is looking for the Necronomicon.
I knew you’d have more books than what i could see, LK. You’ve spotted too many of my quotes to be poorly-read! 🙂
And I apologize for inferring “mere” ME status: I know from our discussions that you ain’t no box ‘n gear guy! Space-borne optics aren’t tinker-toys!
…And, I’m really jealous of LC’s comment! I shoulda known that was what Melody was looking for… Ol’ Abdul Alhazreds famous human skin-covered tome.
Speaking of the Necronomicon: I watched part of the (2009) remake of Dunwich Horror on SF channel this morning and noted that Dean Stockwell was in it. Anybody else know that he starred (as a young man) in the ORIGINAL Dunwich Horror movie in 1970? He played “opposite” roles in the two flicks.
More later, but “mechanical” is nowhere to be found in my degree. There is a funny story not two days old on this very topic but I will save it for later tonight.
I really can’t believe I beat McGoo to that comment 😀
I know… it was well played, Sith. Well played.
The kitty doesn’t overbalance the coat rack?
My family has Super-8 film of our kitten climbing-and taking down–our Christmas tree.
How many demons can dance on the head of a pin and all that… She is very well balanced – an amazing acrobat.
So you’re putting down MEs?
Your toys go nowhere without a real engineer to get it there.
Oh hell no, I absolutely rely on them to help me make sure what I design won’t fall apart. They rely on me to make sure photons still work with their stuff. In my biz the disciplines have to blur the lines a lot and work very closely.
Technically I was lead ME on the sub-project I was on for MESSENGER. But I don’t think for a second that I could have gone without the hardcore ME guys analyzing subassemblies.
I get prickly when some calls me an ME only because it doesn’t reflect what I specialize in. It is not something you run into every day and I am kind of proud of that in what I consider to be the earned arrogance sense of the word.
And no, I am pretty much not going to address your lame remark about “real engineer”.
Not boycotting me again?
Real engineers deal with photons, electrons, excitons, or waves. The rest are mere wrench-turners and toothpaste-fluoriders!
*Gauntlet thrown…!* 🙂
(Whistling from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly softly in the background)
Oh, so what machines do you make that use waves?
And no, a wave pool doesn’t count.
How about photons? I mean, if you say, “Torpedoes”, well, that would be cool, but somehow I think you only look at them or use them to look at stuff you can’t see except in their interactions.
Looking at stuff isn’t the same as engineering stuff.
It’s the difference between a picture of a missile and a missile.
One goes “boom!”, the other, not so much.
Real engineers build stuff, not look at it.
I mean, they look at it after they’ve built it, but until we can make photon torpedoes, they’re just pretty lights.
Except for excitons. Without them, pornicles wouldn’t function properly.
So, have I been banned?
Banning you would be like taking a whinging
sycophantpsychotic and turning him into a martyr.technical point awarded to veeshir on technical call of brain-fart
Electromagnetism makes all your stuff move, otherwise it would be a world of the Flintstones where people all make it go. Light propagates as waves and without understanding that, then optics and glasses don’t work, some chemical reactions aren’t predictable, lasers, telescopes, computers…. All stop working.
If you hafta ask where waves are in the engineering world after sneering at them, I ain’t tellin’.
So you’re saying I’m like a whinging sycophant?
You really need to work on your insult-abilities.
That or you really need to look up the definition of “sycophant”.
I’m lots of things, very few of them printable on this blog, but sycophant is not one of them.
That’s why I’ve been banned from a couple of the most prestigious blogs in the rightosphere.
Banned or boycotted?
Go ahead and be yourself, veesh. Every blog needs someone like you, and since you rise nowhere near OldCatMan’s level I doubt I’ll ever feel the need to ban you.
I only boycoft your blog, I’m talking about being banned. That was back when I still had hope so 90% of my comments were serious, instead of 0%.
I KNEW you were hopeless.
What the hell is going on…? I though SMoD was supposed to get us all yesterday. I even gave all my money away to other people who said they’d invest wisely in Armageddon.
I’m mad at Qetzalcoatl. Next feathered snake I see, I eat.
Why does Shakespeare come to mind right now?
huh, my earlier comments disappeared, I guess the word “pr0nicles” (spelled differently) wouldn’t make it past your filters?
V,
The last stripline microwave circuit I designed (hell, ALL of them I designed) used waves.
Likewise, every photo-detector circuit (including a neat LED-based one!) I’ve ever designed used photons, and every circuit I ever designed (even the ones I designed when I was eleven years old) used electrons – and even holes!
I even piddled with SQUIDS (super-conducting quantum interference devices) for a while. But I got a rash….
I even learned how to count electrons (rather neatly, I might add) from a Georgian Russian PhD I worked with in Phoenix who’d never seen a sampling scope before.
I will grant I haven’t fucked with excitons since grad school when I did surface-electromagnetic-wave propagation & interferometry research.
Pornicles? Yes, I’ve kept up with the literature (thanks to Soylent Green) and have recently co-written a paper or two on the mathematical formalism of the subject, but am no longer actively engaged in research. Pornicle research is a contact sport, more suited to the young.
And – BTW – real engineers design & analyze & simulate & model stuff. Technicians build the stuff. The educational requirements and pay-rates differ…
So what have you done lately? Besides lurk, I mean. 🙂
I see you have no coherent response so I’ll just declare victory and be about my business.
Since you’re unable to grasp a coherent response perhaps being on about your business is best. Minus the victory.
Have a great Christmas! 🙂
LK, I believe that you and McGoo have reclaimed from me the prize of “Using a mouth purtier than a three-dollar whore”.
That paper was an outstanding example of Frontier Gibberish!
That’s “…twenty-dollar whore.”, azmrmacs! Slim Pickins was my Hero! 🙂
Few academics speak fluent Frontier Gibberish anymore, so we used a Beowulf Cluster running a Gefilte Fish interocitor (cubic-splined, of course) in Linux. Took hours….
McGoo, you used the wrong interocitor! You should have used the Babel Fish version, not Gefilte Fish. That’s why your petaflop processor took so long. Babel Fish is much more advanced, just ask Marvin or Zaphod…
$3 vs $20, I forgot to factor inflation. My bad. Or you just got a better class of hooor than I did.
Damn, azmrmacs, now I’ll have to issue a correction! Bet that’s why all the subscripts were initially in Hebrew! We wondered about that….
McGoo, that, and the fact that you and LK issued your manuscript/tome/paper during Hanukkah. That may have effected your Gefilte Fish interocitor.
Secondary effects, ya know…
But an excellent piece of work, none the less! Nice to see y’all have been picked up by Soylent.
Okay, I’ve baked my brain on the medium setting of this. Please extract such understanding from the smoke of my mind as you may.
Sorry, no way we’re letting the smoke demons out. That’s bad ju-ju when they escape. Gotta keep them bottled up. Otherwise things quit working.
😆
I understand half of this half as well as I should, and like half of it half as well as it deserves! Merry Christmas everyone!
Hope y’all had a wonderful Christmas!!!
I don’t understand any of it. Don’t judge or ban me.