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This week I'm going to "quote" people. I say "quote", because I don't make any gurantees regarding the accuracy of the quotes, nor that the quotes are used in context, nor that I spell anyting correctly, nor that anyone actually said any of these things in real life and I'm not just making it all up. All quotes are subject to my recollection.
| Date | "Quote" | Explanation |
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| Sunday November 15, 1998 | "Yo, Brenton. ... Guess what. ... I locked my keys in the computer room." | Jon asking me to do him a favor. |
| "Sculley always gets it." | Hari, commenting on Agent Sculley's tendency towards contracting wierd X-Files-type diseases. | |
| Monday November 16, 1998 | "I've gotta go see my woman." | Kevin "Smoove K" Konkle explaining that he can't come to the SERF with us because he has to finish his thermodynamics homework |
| "It's like if you had a bucket full of grain, and ten mice are eating the grain, and the mice are real hungry, and they're eating it at a constant rate, and then when they eat it all there's none left!" | Professor Vaughan explaining zero-order kinetics | |
| "If you liked the jerseys from last year ... these are way better." | UW cycling club jersey designer Jeremy Donatell describing next year's jerseys | |
| Tuesday November 17, 1998 | "brenton, i would be happy to tell them what a jerk you are" | Jennifer Jurgensen upon being asked if she'd be a reference on my job application. |
| "Ryan would probably blow his load if he saw what I'm doing" | The ever quotable Kevin Konkle makes another bizarre statement. | |
| "Fermat would be proud" | Professor David Moulton in Putnam seminar regarding our intention to use some method Fermat originally used, to try prove that there are no integer solutions to a^-2 + b^-2 = c^-2. | |
| Wednesday November 18, 1998 | "How do you like my new car?" | Roommate Ryan Bebeau whose potential employer in Chicago rented a car for him. |
| "...it's not very reasonable." | Chemistry TA Yongzhong Peng regarding Professor Vaughan's decision to take off points from the exams of people who didn't catch a typo in one of the questions. (An equilibrium constant was off by a factor of 10. He wrote the correct value on the board during the test). | |
| Thursday November 18, 1998 | "Track-standing is for ninnies." | Dave Sonetti after having to put a foot down at the stop light at Johnson and Mills St |
| You guys would be embarrassed if I told you how far I ride every day | Andy Arnold, talking big | |
| "Hi..." | Some telemarketer | |
| Friday November 20, 1998 | On Monday I want you to hand in a sketch of a solution to number 5. | Professor Deborah Joseph setting a deadline |
| Saturday November 21, 1998 | Happy Birthday! | Various friends, relatives, and bouncers |
| Do you want to know a secret, Kevin? ... Thermodynamics is all phony. | Me telling Kevin why his answers to thermodynamics problems never match the ones in the back of the book |