<<Midwest Coffee Talk: The Tens>> - Page 45

Centropolis · #**881** Posted **May 3, 2011, 4:36 AM**

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Originally Posted by Strange Meat

Yup. The actual movement of the train is faint, but the bell and horn aren't. Plus some operators will ring the bell in such a way as to make kind of a little beat. It's kinda funny.

The drunks, though, the drunks... So many...

No dogs, really, though, but I'm in the CBD so that's kinda nice. Even Capitol Hill with 12,000 ppl/sqm seems REALLY quiet to me these days. But mostly it's just because of traffic or various construction projects, and drunk people, especially if there's a big convention with lots of out of towners.

My neighborhood is about 10,000 ppm, it's actually pretty quiet and laid back. I think I was just irritable. I think a lot of drunks every night would get on my nerves, the bar behind me brings the people off the beer garden and inside around midnight or before during the week, fortunately,

Strange Meat · #**882** Posted **May 3, 2011, 1:18 PM**

Nice. I don't mind neighborhood drunks, but in my case most are in from the burbs. I usually avoid downtown on the weekends, cept for baseball.

Ayreonaut · #**883** Posted **May 3, 2011, 3:08 PM**

FFS, I guess she still agrees with me that in the long run she would be happier living in Canada. She will spend at least the next two years in Europe, and she says that she just couldn't make me wait. I don't understand where this guilt is coming from. Waiting for her would be the easiest thing for me to do. Hell, for the next few years I'll just be focused on getting my degree anyways, so it's not like I'm putting my life on hold at all. She is admittedly sacrificing her long-term happiness for reasons I cannot understand, and quite frankly, I don't think she does either.

Strange Meat · #**884** Posted **May 3, 2011, 7:48 PM**

Bitches be crazy, man.

ArabianNights1 · #**885** Posted **May 3, 2011, 8:25 PM**

bitches be crazy, all right.

vid · #**886** Posted **May 3, 2011, 8:32 PM**

Best. First post. Ever.

Strange Meat · #**887** Posted **May 3, 2011, 8:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by ArabianNights1

bitches be crazy, all right.

I think I'm about to feel the wrath, too. Was messin with this one chick, who best friends girlfriend has known for a while, and she says that she is crazy shit (and she's 41 to boot), but she kinda ignored me, so this weekend, I got a number Friday night (more on this later), and then Saturday night, this one chick took me home, which was awesome. So the number, I randomly texted it yesterday afternoon when I was bored, and neither of us remembered each other really well, but we met up later and things went really, really well (no, like really well, like holy shit we have like everything in fucking common well). But she had told me "you're hot, give me a call when you're single" on friday when she gave me her number, and on Saturday, that girl is actually roommates with a friend of mine who I'd just met snowboarding the other week, and she asked him to call me over for her (I ignored him because a group of my friends was leaving at the time, but she found me later on her own), and anyway, she kinda stalked me and found me on facebook today.

Broke or rich, broke or rich...

Strange Meat · #**888** Posted **May 3, 2011, 8:59 PM**

Procrastination rules, and I am it's ruler. A big project:

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Several months ago, thousands of small earthquakes were detected at Axial Seamount, an active submarine volcano. This may mean that an eruption has occurred, but not necessarily. Your mission is to go to Axial Volcano and find out what happened there.

Fortunately, a seafloor monitoring instrument, called a “rumbleometer” was already at Axial Volcano during the earthquakes and will provide important clues. But another ship was just out at the site and was not able to recover the rumbleometer. They could communicate with it on the bottom, so they know it is still on the seafloor, but they could not make it release and return to the surface. Why didn’t it return? Is it stuck on the bottom somehow?

We really want to get the rumbleometer back because it likely recorded information on what the volcano was doing and will help us understand what happened during the earthquakes. We know where the rumbleometer is on the bottom, but you need to go out to Axial and find out why the rumbleometer did not come up. Then you need to recover it and look at the data it recorded to figure out what happened at Axial during the earthquakes. A research ship with a remotely operated vehicle are standing by ...

In order to solve the mystery of what happened to the rumbleometer during the recent earthquakes at Axial Volcano, you will conduct the following four activities:

1) Locate an earthquake epicenter - this will tell you where the action was and where to take the ship with ROPOS

2) Record observations during a ROPOS dive - you will look for clues on the seafloor in the area around the rumbleometer

3) Create before-and-after cross-sections of the seafloor - this mapping exercise will show if there have been any changes in seafloor depth since the previous survey was done before the earthquakes

4) Analyze data from the rumbleometer - pressure and temperature data recorded by the instrument will give important information about what happened

Segment 1:
Completed Project Overall
Graded on Professionalism & Neatness

Good (what I am looking for): including but not limited to folder, Cover sheet in front, Title page incl. Name, Class, Section, Date, Neatness, Business like print quality, Electronically prepared, ...

Bad (point deductions): Cut n’ paste, missing Name on any or all of the parts, sloppy appearance, stains, handwritten, missing segments, out of order, etc....

Segment 2:
Locating Earthquake using Triangulation

Graded on Triangulation Map & Hydrophone distance calculations

Good (what I am looking for): table & calculations in Excel, map showing hydrophone Locations, distance circles, epicenter location, epicenter coordinates, etc.,...

Bad (point deductions): Poor drawing; sloppy work; NO long.-lat. For epicenter, wrong location, missing circles, etc.....

Segment 3:
Ocean Floor Traverse

Graded on Correctness & Completeness

Good (what I am looking for): Excel Table addressing the following questions: Old or new lava? Lava collapsed or uncollapsed? Hydrothermal Vent present: Old or New? List of observed animal species ...
Note: Best to transcribe the table presented in the power point into Excel

Bad (point deductions): including but not limited to missing or sloppy / unprofessional work, not Excel, not enough detail, NOT observed, etc...

Segment 4:
Contour Profiling & Map
Create five (5) contour profiles using the Contour Profile Worksheets presented in this Power Point. Can be hand drawn if neat AND orderly. Mark & shade the POST-event profile in Red.
Post-event Map: Mark east and west boundaries of new lava flow in red on map roughly following the contour lines, to define boundary and extent of new lava flow

Graded on drawing neatness, correctness, completeness
Good (what I am looking for): including but not limited to clean cross section and map, ALL 5 sections present, NO errors, color coded differentiating between pre and post event, relying on data...

Bad (point deductions): including but not limited to missing or sloppy work, incomplete data or map, no color coding, illogical compilation, etc. etc....

Segment 5: Rumbleometer Data & Conclusion
After plotting data electronically, type a concluding paragraph explaining what happened to the Missing Rumbleometer drawing on ALL the activities.

Note: The questions presented throughout the exercises will help you to draw the proper conclusion in your write-up. It is NOT necessary to answer each question individually!

Graded on use of Excel, Quality, Neatness, Language

Good (what I am looking for): Excel data graphs, professional write-up, logical explanation using ALL the data, detailed, etc...

Bad (point deductions): including but not limited to missing or sloppy / unprofessional work, hand-drawn, poor grammar / composition, etc....

As well as 10 online quizzes, all of which are due by noon tomorrow, and none of which I have started. Huzzah.

rockyi · #**889** Posted **May 3, 2011, 10:06 PM**

My hair hurts.

HomeInMyShoes · #**890** Posted **May 4, 2011, 12:29 PM**

Graded on the use of Excel? Really? Since when were grades based on specific companies products?

Hey, I love Excel, but there's a lot of tools out there to do statistical analysis and graphing that are way better on the statistics side.

mobyhead · #**891** Posted **May 4, 2011, 3:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by rockyi

My hair hurts.

Huh? You need to see a doctor about that.

touraccuracy · #**892** Posted **May 4, 2011, 7:16 PM**

the discussion of ppm (people per square mile?) made me curious about my own neighbourhood. it's listed at 12 people per acre with greenbelts or 22 people without.

that'd work out to 7680 ppm or 14080 ppm. that's ridiculous, this is a large, spaced out single fmaily home suburban area up on a hill. the only explanation would be the newer houses here are packed in tall and skinny side by side, there are some townhouse complexes, and a lot of foreign families seem to (from my experience with friends) pack the extended family in there, grandmas, uncles, etc.

then again i got these numbers from wikipedia, so...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westwood_Plateau

vid · #**893** Posted **May 4, 2011, 7:29 PM**

Those numbers sound high but they really aren't.

7,680 people per square mile is only 2,965 people per square kilometre, which is pretty average if you look at suburban census tract densities in most large Canadian cities.

If the area has a lot of families, that could make the density higher. My neighbourhood has half the population it did in the 1960s but the same housing stock because most people are single, childless or elderly. One of our suburban census tracts has half as many dwelling as my tract but the same number of people.

rockyi · #**894** Posted **May 4, 2011, 10:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by mobyhead

Huh? You need to see a doctor about that.

Forget that, all he'll do is stick his finger in my butt......

Me: "Doctor, my ears are ringing"
Doctor: "Well, let me stick my finger in your butt."

Me: "Doctor I think my arm is broken."
Doctor: "Hmmmm, I'd better stick my finger in your butt."

Me: "Doctor my eyes are bleeding."
Doctor: "Looks like a good time to stick my finger in your butt."

Stupid doctors.

Ex-Ithacan · #**895** Posted **May 4, 2011, 10:57 PM**

^ I think I'm seeing a pattern there rock, but then again I'm kinda perceptive.

Not that anyone cares, but this is where I learned how to swim as a young lad:

pic from arunkani @ flickr

rockyi · #**896** Posted **May 4, 2011, 11:20 PM**

^Cool place. I assume it's in Ithaca?

Ex-Ithacan · #**897** Posted **May 4, 2011, 11:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by rockyi

^Cool place. I assume it's in Ithaca?

yep, a couple of miles ooutside the city.

Strange Meat · #**898** Posted **May 4, 2011, 11:37 PM**

that place looks amazing.

Centropolis · #**899** Posted **May 4, 2011, 11:46 PM**

That almost looks like a stereotypical "just outside of Austin thing," except there is way too much water flowing down and I think you have to take a pill and die when you turn 35 in Austin.

Centropolis · #**900** Posted **May 5, 2011, 5:15 AM**

why don't more of you chicago forumers head down I-80 and take photographs?