Tag Archive for 'UW'
In my Astronomy outreach class last quarter, one of our quizzes for the class contained a question where we had to make up a constellation, explain what it looked like, and created a back story behind it.
They range from the slightly tasty:
Zeus’ daughter made him his favorite cupcake one day. She wanted to surprise her dad,so she left it on the counter for him to find. When she brought him into the kitchen to show him, they caught Pisces trying to sneak a bite of the dessert. Zeus’ daughter began to cry hysterically and Zeus lost his temper. He grabbed the cupcake and threw out the window into the heavens above. And as punishment to Pisces, he threw the fish into the night sky, where he will always be out of reach of the cupcake as it sits deliciously uneaten for eternity in front of his face.
Continue reading ‘The evil giant octopus Ecthelion’Every year after the dust settles from the insanely boring ASUW elections, “they” publish a document that contains all of the vote. While most students just don’t vote, some ditfully punch their virtual ballots for whoever is running from the Greek system. The rest will take advantage of the write-in system. Here are a few examples:
ASUW President
- Hottie Sarah Chow
- Homer Simpson
- Jake Locker (Two Votes)
- Luke Skywalker
- You don’t deserve my vote
Continue reading ‘ASUW Election Results: Curiosities and Amusements’
From: [redacted] To: Alpine-info <Alpine-info@u.washington.edu> Subject: [Alpine-info] The saga of Sir Crispin vs the UW (maybe) Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:14:58 -0600 (MDT) Sender: alpine-info-bounces@mailman2.u.washington.edu User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (OSX 1167 2008-08-23) I was reading a Slashdot RSS article entitled "Extracting Meaning From Millions of Pages" which turns out to be about Googles contribution to the UW project called TextRunner. I can just Sir Crispin being accosted by some friggin CS Dean or Head of IS at UW with the assertion that UW will soon be going to bed with Google, and would he and his compadres like to jump into the sack as well? HOWEVER..... it means that you boys will have to give up Pine, cuz we will need all the bodies we can get a hold of, to pull this off. Sir Crispin proceeds to tell him/her/they to fuck their hats --- that he's not interested in playing nice with an assholin', monopolistic outfit like Google --- and anyway what's wrong with a kick-ass project (used world-wide) like our own IMAP? Continue reading 'IMAP Creator vs. UW: The Hidden Tale?'
As seen on the tech-support mailing list:
uw.edu? [redacted] Thu Jun 18 22:18:53 PDT 2009 Once upon a time, there was waged a great battle between Educause and (then) C&C, the result of which was the acquisition of uw.edu. There was much hemming & hawing and mad twinkles in mad eyes. Win this one victory, it was uttered, and the floodgates would be open! Forever would the precious .edu domains flow freely, as ambrosia from Olympus! In our hubris, we thought we would walk as gods on the internet, striking down any who stood in our way with a flurry of Es, Ds, and Us. Continue reading 'Mythological Battle for uw.edu'
The lawn in front of the oldest building on campus contains greying concrete benches of old. Slowly eroding away and sinking into the Earth, the smattering of benches on the hill might resemble tombstones to a distant eye. A weary student might take a break on one of these moss encrusted relics. Perhaps looking around, they might spot an inscription carved into the back of the stone. Brushing away debris, one of them faintly but clearly reads “Class of 1910.”
1910. An average graduate would be around 118 years old now. I wonder how many of them are left.
So the geniuses at the group “Huskies for Israel” seem to be blanketing the campus with their flyers, which I don’t really have a problem with.
Until I noticed two of the priceless cherry trees on the Quad. Covered with little blue 4″x5.5″ flyers. That are stapled to the trunks.
I’ll repeat that. Stapled to the trunks.
What a bunch of idiots.
Note: I forgot to take a picture of this I was so angry. If you snag a shot, hook me up. :)
