[Public-List] Momentous moment today

[Kris Coward via Public-List]

Given that our general benchmark was that *real* discplines are still
being taught under the same names they used in ancient Greece, If
there'd been a historian with us during our trash-talking, I'm sure that
history would've gotten a pass too.

(It may have anyway; that conversation was pretty long ago now. I mainly
remember it because I'm living in my main-trimmer's spare room while
replacing my cutlass bearing--as well as dealing with some other
things--and she works in the CS deparment at the same university.
Apparently when they finally let the math and stats departments have
offices in the same building it blocked the donor's original intent to
get all the CS department into a single physical building, so now she's
still stuck supporting research groups in 3 different buildings.)

-K

On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 02:03:11PM -0400, Gordon Laco wrote:
> What a travesty, the History Department clearly is more deserving...
> 
> 
> On 14/03/15 1:32 PM, "Kris Coward via Public-List"
> <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > CS department's still in the math building there.
> > 
> > -K
> > 
> > On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 12:12:56PM -0400, Rod wrote:
> >> Hmmm. 
> >> Maybe you were at the wrong campus. (-:
> >> As I recall,  Waterloo's largest and certainly most impressive building was
> >> the  Math Building.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Cheers,  Rod 
> >> 
> >> <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Kris Coward via
> >> Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> </div><div>Date:14-03-2015
> >> 11:16 AM  (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: Patricia Meinhold
> >> <pmeinhold at comcast.net> </div><div>Cc: Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all
> >> <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: [Public-List]
> >> Momentous moment today </div><div>
> >> </div>
> >> I remember back in grad school getting together with one of the
> >> philosophy students and talking trash about the sciences as "cocky
> >> upstart disciplines with less than half a millenium of history to them"
> >> (as an expression of envy for their getting nicer offices while the math
> >> and philosophy departments tended to be just squeezed in wherever).
> >> 
> >> Cheers,
> >> Kris
> >> 
> >> On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 10:57:24AM -0400, Patricia Meinhold wrote:
> >>> Them too!
> >>> 
> >>> Pat
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>>> On Mar 14, 2015, at 10:32 AM, Kris Coward <kris at melon.org> wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> How about a mathematician instead? *cough*
> >>>> 
> >>>> -K
> >> 
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