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Knew this before I started, really. But all things continue until irony is achieved.
A department meeting tried resolving a question I never got clear, which wended through chatter with all agreed the Dean wanted us to do something pointless; each time I thought we'd decided how we started over. I don't know what's settled, but I seem to have no new assignments, and some of my quips got good laughs, so I'm satisfied. Also the Milo truck visited, dispensing free ice-cold chocolate milk, always a good thing. I wonder the truck does when they don't have it serving college students.
And apparently the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute webmasters upgraded to Mac OS X finally.
Trivia: RPI graduate William B. Cogswell's Solvay Process Company became the United States's largest maker of soda ash and byproducts. Source: Troy: A Collar City History, Don Rittner.
Currently Reading: The Clicking of Cuthbert, P.G. Wodehouse. (Finished as the bus got home, actually.)
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This sentence has ermarkable connections...
Date: 2004-08-17 09:17 am (UTC)> Trivia: RPI graduate William B. Cogswell's Solvay Process Company >became the United States's largest maker of soda ash and byproducts. >Source: Troy: A Collar City History, Don Rittner.
OK.. My Father is an RPI graduate, as well as a retired RPI professor. I live in the village of Solvay, on the corner of Milton and Cogswell. I used to live in Troy, where I was the Local History librarian at the Troy Public Library. I often drink soda and now and then make an ash of myself.
Whiffert
Re: This sentence has REmarkable connections...
Date: 2004-08-17 09:19 am (UTC)My spelling suxxorz
Re: This sentence has REmarkable connections...
Date: 2004-08-17 09:28 am (UTC)I'd just thought they were erminable connections. Marvelous connections in any case, though.
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Date: 2004-08-17 09:30 am (UTC)And -- I can't believe I forgot to mention this -- the Troy Public Library is an awesome library. Eccentric, cramped, filled, quirky, everything a person needs in a library. I'm sorry I'm no longer in driving range for it.
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Date: 2004-08-17 10:30 am (UTC)My alma mater, The Evergreen State College, seems to be a breeding ground for cartoonists: it produced Matt Groening and Lynda Barry. I'm doing my damndest at the moment to get my name into that sentence.
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Date: 2004-08-17 06:05 pm (UTC)I recognized that ... RPI had for many years a reputation as breeding ground for civil engineers, which sounds great, until you think about how long you can go, on average, before you particularly seek out a civil engineer for a task.
The school's got other alumni who've done remarkable things, but you won't hear about it because RPI has the institutional pride of those little floater thingies in your eyes that you hope aren't early stages of glaucoma.
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Date: 2004-08-17 10:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-08-18 03:30 am (UTC)I'm no ordinary coati; I'm a coati who stumbles into bizarre connections. Remember, I've met Spaceroo, the President of Singapore, and the guy who created Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog.
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Date: 2004-08-18 03:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-08-18 10:06 am (UTC)Huh ... maybe it's Spaceroo that's the connection.
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Date: 2004-08-17 11:31 pm (UTC)You already knew it'd been taken 15714 times?
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Date: 2004-08-18 03:31 am (UTC)Yup; it was all but inevitable after number 15,713.