The Periodic Table

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Dissenter

03:58

My professor's excuse for not knowing organic chemistry: He took organic chemistry the year before Morrison and Boyd came out

Omen

lol

how are you @Dissenter?

6 hours later…

Martin

10:30

@Omen Nice to have you around, new faces are always welcome, especially when they join the chat occasionally.

@Dissenter Well, I did not think it would have been within your scope. This is generally something you do in the late Bachelor or early Master years. I was just kidding.

Omen

i am enjoying myself thus far

LordStryker

11:33

@Martin I look forward to it!

@Philipp You crack me up man. That was gold.

Omen

All hail, @LordStryker!

LordStryker

Hey @Omen! Good morning (well it is here anyway)!

How goes it in AUS?

Omen

I am up to 2Q's and an answer... none in haiku though

things are great her ein Oz... it is 9:35pm here

what is new there, @LordStryker?

LordStryker

@Omen I'm going through a long list of worthless emails from students that I received over the weekend. Given that there is an exam today, some students still don't understand the concept of, if its in the book and we went over that chapter, its fair game.

Omen

oh, i know that feeling... my day job is as a teacher...

@LordStryker maybe give the exam questions in haiku

LordStryker

11:48

HA!

Omen

and they only pass if they answer in haiku

LordStryker

I'm not creative enough to come up with 35 haiku questions that would be considered 'clear'. I'd imagine it would be an interesting conversation with the Dean explaining why it was a good idea.

Omen

explain it to the Dean in haiku

but yeah, Dean's often don't have a sense of haiku-ness in these situations

write the questions in Yoda speak

LordStryker

lol

If I were well-established and rooted in my department, then maybe but alas I'm just 'the new guy'

Omen

ah yes, best be prudent

when is the exam today?

LordStryker

12:01

its amazing what students will ask to get out of an exam "I haven't got much sleep or rest since Wed. can I take your Monday exam at a later date?"

HAHA WUT?!

Omen

LOL, I have had that one before - I usually say, sure, have the exam yesterday

LordStryker

oh thats good

"sure, how about 12:01 AM on Tuesday?"

Omen

been a high school teacher for 1 years...

15 years that is

woohoo my question on Academia is up to 54 upvotes

LordStryker

Do you enjoy it? I've often thought that teaching HS could be a lot of fun and fulfilling. However the pay sort of keeps me from actually doing that for now.

Omen

i did enjoy it once, now I am making moves to go tertiary....

LordStryker

12:06

55 upboats now ;)

Omen

woohoo!

LordStryker

man that sounds like a crappy situation

Omen

i even joined physics and wrote a question... experimental physics of course

@LordStryker used to be - that dude tried to force the uni to fail me in my masters...

now, he is part of my 'normal', I have 2 stalkers (one romance and one academic) and a separate nemesis... alll I need now is a mortal enemy and a sidekick and I'll have the whole set

LordStryker

'one romance' - ooooh la la! @Omen you ol' rascal you!

Omen

lol...what can I say, there seems to be an allure about mildly insane, fat, ugly, balding physicists

one could say that I am ugly like a fox

known her since high school, avoiding her since the next day after I met her

LordStryker

12:14

@Omen Sounds like a restraining order may be a possibly reasonable course of action?

Omen

nah, she does not bother me that much, and she lives over 3000km away and has no idea where I am... she has my phone number though, and she sends texts about Jim Carey...she is quite odd

how long does the exam go for?

LordStryker

50 minutes. Its an exam that really mainly covers material that is straight up memorization so its either "you know it or you dont". If you memorized the stuff you were supposed to you could finish this exam in 10 minutes flat.

things like "names of common polyatomic ions"

Omen

A: george, ringo, michael and bob

at the moment, I am roaming through my sites seeking old unanswered questions to answer

I am also researching band gap data for silicon

LordStryker

Thats good! We do really well with ~91% of questions having answers but anything to keep approaching 100% is of course better.

Omen

indeed - I answered one on Chem about ambient temperature and redox chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/7375/…

my google fu is strong

LordStryker

12:26

@Omen Used to be "my library catalog searching skills is strong". Google is such an amazing tech.

Omen

it is brilliant - I google just about everything

how many papers will you have to grade?

LordStryker

Its scantron based so I really won't be doing the grading.

For as much as I hate scantrons (i.e. multiple choice exams) I can't reasonably do a written exam because I teach nearly 400 students.

Omen

400?!?!?! scantron FTW

does the scantron do haiku?

multiple choice??? what the blazing saddles are the students whinging about?

LordStryker

haha I don't think this one does. Maybe I could pitch a new scantron haiku format to the department ;)

@Omen They are freshman. Just babies who are just now learning that they can use something other than their hands and shirt to wipe their noses with.

They don't like the fact that I put 'none of the above' as an option on every question.

But I tell them, you need to be confident in your knowledge

Omen

I agree with that philosophy

LordStryker

12:34

Plus, 'none of the above' saves me the headache of having to throw out a question due to a typo on my part.

Omen

that's what I say to my students

LordStryker

But of course, I never have any typos.

Omen

of course not! if there were one, blame the scantron

LordStryker

oh yeah, we've got lots of 'get out of jail free' cards

Omen

I usually blame the poltergeists in the photocopier

LordStryker

12:38

I usually just challenge anyone who brings it up by saying "come at me bro".

Omen

that's what the poltergeist said

LordStryker

well see, you didn't sacrifice a virgin to the photocopier gods. You have to offer up the sacrifice if you want to appease them.

Omen

the coffee machine?

LordStryker

speaking of coffee machine, I need to remember to begin my quest for some here in a little bit.

Omen

lol, soon I will be going to the land of nod

LordStryker

12:45

You say Nod and all I can think about is...

Omen

that too

Omen

13:11

bloody hell that was an epic

answered this on physics physics.stackexchange.com/questions/81658/…

LordStryker

@Omen

Omen

LMAO

my best site is Earth sciences, just 3 rep up over Academia

LordStryker

TeX was mine for a long time. I think I've only recently surpassed that in Chem now.

My problem is that I don't contribute much in terms of questions and/or answers. But when I do I try to be very rigorous. Doesn't really add up to a bunch of rep that way but thats the way I've been rolling.

Omen

your contributions are absolutely brilliant - i remember reading your 'mini-investigation'... brilliant

quality trumps quantity

you have earned true rep

Martin

13:32

There are only a few people, that have so much knowledge to answer any question...

LordStryker

@Martin hey! \o

@Omen I really appreciate the remark.

Omen

hey Martin!

Martin

Good evening everybody (lol) こんばんは！

@LordStryker Well, I alway enjoy your contributions. Mostly because I understand them perfectly. (also the tricky parts)

LordStryker

@Martin comp. chemistry ftw! :)

LordStryker

14:29

heya @Waffle'sCrazyPeanut long time no see how's it hangin?

Waffle's Crazy Peanut

14:46

@LordStryker Yeah... (Don't remind me), When was around, I was showing off with my broadband (I was living at 64 kB/s). Nowadays, I only have a sucked-up 2G, where I've to squeal for 10 kB/s

Here's a best example...
I saw your message 15 mins ago, it took 15 mins to enter into this room *(sigh)* -_-\

So, @LordStryker how you doing?

7 hours later…

LordStryker

22:06

AAAAUGH! I can't stop criticizing design ideas while not being able to come up with my own! I feel like a total donkey.

Omen

22:30

@LordStryker!

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