Comments on: Grooming for the New Semester http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/01/09/grooming-for-the-new-semester/ Random samplings from a universe of ideas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:29:57 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: citrine http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/01/09/grooming-for-the-new-semester/comment-page-1/#comment-9632 citrine Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:33:54 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/01/09/grooming-for-the-new-semester/#comment-9632 Ruth, Thanks for the info! Ruth,

Thanks for the info!

]]> By: Ruth Ellen http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/01/09/grooming-for-the-new-semester/comment-page-1/#comment-9622 Ruth Ellen Tue, 10 Jan 2006 02:45:45 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/01/09/grooming-for-the-new-semester/#comment-9622 I consulted with my niece, who, last year, finished her fourth year of high school Latin (so she still remembers it). Here is what she wrote: tabulae rasae. "tabula" is the feminine singular noun for tablet, and "rasa," as an adjective, always follows the form of the noun. So if you change "tabula" to "tabulae" you have to change "rasa" to "rasae." I consulted with my niece, who, last year, finished her fourth year of high school Latin (so she still remembers it). Here is what she wrote: tabulae rasae. “tabula” is the feminine singular noun for tablet, and “rasa,” as an adjective, always follows the form of the noun. So if you change “tabula” to “tabulae” you have to change “rasa” to “rasae.”

]]> By: Clifford http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/01/09/grooming-for-the-new-semester/comment-page-1/#comment-9631 Clifford Mon, 09 Jan 2006 22:50:50 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/01/09/grooming-for-the-new-semester/#comment-9631 Oh, is that all it takes for people to think I'm a "real" (I use the word avisedly) physicist? A month of indifferent personal grooming? Gosh.... ;-) -cvj Oh, is that all it takes for people to think I’m a “real” (I use the word avisedly) physicist? A month of indifferent personal grooming? Gosh…. ;-)

-cvj

]]> By: agm http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/01/09/grooming-for-the-new-semester/comment-page-1/#comment-9630 agm Mon, 09 Jan 2006 22:29:27 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/01/09/grooming-for-the-new-semester/#comment-9630 <I>Had to get cleaned up as I could not really turn up on campus looking all shaggy like I'm on a camping trip.</I> Wouldn't want to be mistaken for an experimentalist =) Had to get cleaned up as I could not really turn up on campus looking all shaggy like I’m on a camping trip.

Wouldn’t want to be mistaken for an experimentalist =)

]]> By: citrine http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/01/09/grooming-for-the-new-semester/comment-page-1/#comment-9629 citrine Mon, 09 Jan 2006 21:51:48 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/01/09/grooming-for-the-new-semester/#comment-9629 Dissident, Oops, I meant to type "tabulae rasa" in my post #2. Dissident,

Oops, I meant to type “tabulae rasa” in my post #2.

]]> By: citrine http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/01/09/grooming-for-the-new-semester/comment-page-1/#comment-9628 citrine Mon, 09 Jan 2006 21:49:44 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/01/09/grooming-for-the-new-semester/#comment-9628 Clifford, Oh, how could I forget the geometry set!! Thanks for jogging that memory. :) This was our big excitement in sixth grade. Of all the components we only used the ruler, protractor and compass. Due to frequent use, the ruler soon broke or wore out at its nice sharp corners. Funny story about that - I had this friend whose mom was, shall we say, zaftig. My friend happened to leave her little plastic ruler on her bed and her mom accidently sat on it, breaking it neatly into two 3" pieces. I wanted mine in two pieces like that, too, as it's easier to manipulate a small ruler when drawing geometrical diagrams in one's notebook. Dissident, Thanks for perceiving me as "sensible". I think that it makes life easier when you reveal specific facets of yourself to different types of people, hence my internet anonymity. Clifford,

Oh, how could I forget the geometry set!! Thanks for jogging that memory. :) This was our big excitement in sixth grade. Of all the components we only used the ruler, protractor and compass. Due to frequent use, the ruler soon broke or wore out at its nice sharp corners. Funny story about that – I had this friend whose mom was, shall we say, zaftig. My friend happened to leave her little plastic ruler on her bed and her mom accidently sat on it, breaking it neatly into two 3″ pieces. I wanted mine in two pieces like that, too, as it’s easier to manipulate a small ruler when drawing geometrical diagrams in one’s notebook.

Dissident,

Thanks for perceiving me as “sensible”. I think that it makes life easier when you reveal specific facets of yourself to different types of people, hence my internet anonymity.

]]> By: Dissident http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/01/09/grooming-for-the-new-semester/comment-page-1/#comment-9627 Dissident Mon, 09 Jan 2006 21:13:48 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/01/09/grooming-for-the-new-semester/#comment-9627 Citrine, I think it's "tabulae rasae" (didn't take Latin either). We seem to have an Internet policy in common. Not sure why though; unlike me, you come across like a sensible person. ;) Citrine, I think it’s “tabulae rasae” (didn’t take Latin either). We seem to have an Internet policy in common. Not sure why though; unlike me, you come across like a sensible person. ;)

]]> By: Clifford http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/01/09/grooming-for-the-new-semester/comment-page-1/#comment-9626 Clifford Mon, 09 Jan 2006 18:41:03 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/01/09/grooming-for-the-new-semester/#comment-9626 citrine:- I did not mention textbooks because those were supplied in school. However, we did have to get blank notebooks, a geometry set (if you did not already have one.... these had a little set square, compass, protractor, template for various chemistry shapes (we never used those, sadly...), rubber/eraser, sharpener...all in a metal box) and pens and pencils. Yes, we had brown paper covers too! I think we had to do them on the first day of class. -cvj citrine:- I did not mention textbooks because those were supplied in school. However, we did have to get blank notebooks, a geometry set (if you did not already have one…. these had a little set square, compass, protractor, template for various chemistry shapes (we never used those, sadly…), rubber/eraser, sharpener…all in a metal box) and pens and pencils.

Yes, we had brown paper covers too! I think we had to do them on the first day of class.

-cvj

]]> By: citrine http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/01/09/grooming-for-the-new-semester/comment-page-1/#comment-9625 citrine Mon, 09 Jan 2006 18:16:42 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/01/09/grooming-for-the-new-semester/#comment-9625 Dissident, Ummm... when posting on the interent I have a policy of not revealing info. that could reveal my identity. Let's say that the S.Asian country I'm from, falls into the region of the world referred to as the "Indian Subcontinent". ****************** Is the plural of tabula rasa, tublae rasa? Sorry, didn't take Latin in school. Dissident,

Ummm… when posting on the interent I have a policy of not revealing info. that could reveal my identity. Let’s say that the S.Asian country I’m from, falls into the region of the world referred to as the “Indian Subcontinent”.

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Is the plural of tabula rasa, tublae rasa? Sorry, didn’t take Latin in school.

]]> By: Dissident http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/01/09/grooming-for-the-new-semester/comment-page-1/#comment-9624 Dissident Mon, 09 Jan 2006 18:09:03 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/01/09/grooming-for-the-new-semester/#comment-9624 Don't worry Citrine, coming back from summer vacation determined to do things better is the same in the Real World(TM). Just a lot quicker... BTW, what's all this recurring mystery about "a S.Asian country"? Might it be South Korea? Don’t worry Citrine, coming back from summer vacation determined to do things better is the same in the Real World(TM). Just a lot quicker…

BTW, what’s all this recurring mystery about “a S.Asian country”? Might it be South Korea?

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