Comments on: Chris Pirillo and me

By: Elyk

Elyk — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 06:18:57 +0000

Hah, I also think that G4 is much worse than Tech TV was, I always used to watch Tech TV…now I only watch like 2 shows on G4, what a waste.

By: Tara Mobley

Tara Mobley — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 20:06:16 +0000

That was lovely. I don’t think I stopped smiling the whole time I was listening, and it was really funny.

Phil, may you never lose your joy in science. I love every time I get to hear you bust the stereotype of scientists not being fun.

By: icemith

icemith — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:08:29 +0000

Gee, Phil, that was an entertaining interview conducted by Chris Pirillo. And the interviewee wasn’t half entertaining either. It took me ages to get through to the end with all the interuptions I had. The downloaded podcast worked a charm, just paused it and unpaused it later to pick it up again.

I must look out for other podcasts like it.

Ivan

By: SpikeNut

SpikeNut — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:54:31 +0000

Waaay back when I was an undergrad, the people around me were all 4 and 5 sigma people. I felt like an idiot more often than not. I continue to be amazed at how knowledgeable astronomers-by-training are about so many different topics. It’s awesome to know people like that.

Phil, your interview was great and I enjoyed listening to it. Thanks for the link.

(I *really* gotta get DSL!)

By: Kevin Conod

Kevin Conod — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:08:41 +0000

>Sure, the wordplay is a-cute, but are such jokes really integral to a scientific >conversation?

As any scientist will tell you: “Yes Absolutely”.

By: Blake Stacey

Blake Stacey — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:44:36 +0000

One day the power died at MIT, and the only thing which still worked was the wireless Internet access (which had an independent backup feed from the IS building). With nothing better to do, we sat around and invented puns for math terms, SI units and famous physicists. It was such a Faraday outside, we just wanted to sit and enjoy the nice Weber. I Gauss anyone else would do the same thing. Sure, we could have walked across the river to some place which still had electricity, but that would Biot-Savart (be oh so far, get it?) away. ... if only because there was that high magic to low puns, because DT's must give access to dt's of spectra beyond the known sun, music made purely of Antarctic loneliness and fright. --- Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

By: Shawn S.

Shawn S. — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 23:49:28 +0000

Bad math puns, but still far fewer puns than in Seth Shostak’s show. That boy loves to pun…

I always enjoy hearing Phil speak.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 22:18:56 +0000

Blake, I’m afraid the more obtuse among us may misunderstand the origin of your comments.

By: James Pyrich

James Pyrich — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 19:03:13 +0000

Gosh, that was entertaining.

By: rattis

rattis — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 18:50:31 +0000

The Podcast was great. Going to have tgo watch for more like it in the future.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 18:22:49 +0000

BA, *I* thought it was funny. All the “banter.”

By: Waynek

Waynek — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:00:31 +0000

Dang it. I spent two years at Goddard, and the BA waits until I’ve moved back to Texas to give a talk there. Figures.

By: Blake Stacey

Blake Stacey — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:02:26 +0000

I have to say, the whole pun sequence of math terms — “all things being equilateral”, “was that a sine?” — was a little too derivative. Sure, the wordplay is a-cute, but are such jokes really integral to a scientific conversation? Let’s keep it real, OK, and not get too complex. You might think they’re funny, but honestly, the humor is imaginary.

By: Blake Stacey

Blake Stacey — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:45:23 +0000

“Ooh, authority, I don’t like that word.”

Great stuff, Prof. BA!