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Saw Episode 2 last night. It was actually a very funny movie. I’m not sure if it was intended to be a very funny movie, but it was. I could probably stand to sit through it again in a week or two, but not until then. And I really hate to say it, because the more often you say it the less credible you become, but it was sooooooooo slashy. I’m sorry. The dialogue was stilted and ridiculous and sometimes I wonder if Lucas really \/thought\/ about what it sounded like. The impression I was left with was that it could have been much worse. R2 in flight was worth it.<\/p>\n

I also tried vanilla coke. It was ok, but there was too much coke flavor and not enough vanilla.<\/p>\n

Today, I went to Wellesley for one of my prof’s retirement party. The daughter of one of the other profs was there and she is \/so\/ tall. When I started there she was this tiny little peanut of a thing, and now she’s like, grownup looking. She’d looked very big when I saw her last year too, but this year even moreso.<\/p>\n

I also saw Monique and Kerrie who I hadn’t seen since I graduated, and I was really happy. They’ve been in graduate school in Michigan, and M. told me some funny stories about this class she had. It also reminded me of another story that Katrin had once told me, so I will recount that one here too.<\/p>\n

Once, Katrin was observing with the 24″ telescope. When she got done, at about 4am, she went to close the dome, but the motor had burned out. She couldn’t get it closed. So she called campus po to see if they could help her contact maintenance or something. They were very upset to find that she was in the building at 4am and started arguing with her about it. But eventually someone came up there and after a while she managed to get the dome closed and the telescope covered. Later, campus po complained to the department that they shouldn’t have students using equipment in the middle of the night, and couldn’t they do it during the day?<\/p>\n

Monique’s class was not, shall we say, very academically inclined. It was an intro class and apparently full of jocks. So she decided to be nice, and gave them an easy question as a problem. They had two weeks to answer this: You are going to colonize one of the satellites of Jupiter. Which do you choose, how will you set up your colony, where will you get food, etc? She decided she’d pretty much accept any answer if it seemed like they’d made some effort to think about it.<\/p>\n

Now, the obvious answer is, of course, Europa. It’s the moon they think might already<\/i> harbor some life. After that, you could make up whatever kind of Star Trekky thing you wanted.<\/p>\n

Some of the answers she got:<\/p>\n

I would colonize Io, because it’s warm.<\/i> [Io’s average temperature is -143 C] We would get food and water by stretching a long tube back to Earth.<\/i> [Monique’s comment: I hope it’s fire resistant, because it’s going through the SUN.]<\/p>\n

My source of food would be cannibalism, because it’s too hard to bring food with us.<\/i><\/p>\n

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