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"Annoyance is my strongest emotion."
-- Emily meant feeling annoyed, not being annoying (September 2024).
cunt is a term of affection so feel free to drop it liberally in conversation.
-- Sue provides guidance for Australia (October 2024).
"It tastes like TV static."
-- Why Luke J doesn't like sparkling water (October 2024).
"The song is the one thing we're..."
"Totally wrong on?"
"...yeah..."
-- Emily offers a more direct/accurate assessment of our trivia
answer status than what I was going to say (November 2025).
(My new gmail account is cautioning me about sharing sensitive information
with frank@notfrank.com. They've detected that your account is
simultaneously frank and notfrank, and that strikes them as a little sus.)
-- Lisa summarizes the situation perfectly (November 2024).
bad reviewers go to science hell…
-- Felix F's chat message during a Zoom discussion about paper
reviews--and it's true (Deccember 2024).
"They're in Mexico...not the cartel section, the vacation section."
-- Always good to clarify these things (January 2025).
"They key to student success is money, time, and proximity."
-- Justin was talking about student pilots, but it probably is
true, with different weightingm, in many endeavors (January 2025).
T'Pol is also an interesting case because the actress who played her
was hotter than the surface of the sun. Star Trek has never been above
fetishizing women, and Jolene Blalock would suffer from this as well.
-- I appreciate Deepak's accuracy on both the actress and that
the surface is the hottest part of the sun (December 2024).
[Note: I'm behind on email. This one should have appeared
last year and will be archived in the 2024 file.]
"Ugh. So far, I've made all of the turns [turnovers] for the team."
"Somebody had to do it. Better you than me."
-- Kaspar provides limited consolation to me. Though to be fair,
it was only the 2nd point in the frisbee game and it was
pretty windy and somewhat cold out (January 2025).
"I have more self-control now."
"I don't know about that."
"Well, I have less freezer space."
-- Despite Ray's doubts, David believes he is less prone to fall
for the siren call of lava cakes (January 2025).
"Wow! You got it it because Cam said it."
-- Emily 'praises' Alan echoing a trivia answer (February 2025).
"Hell is other people's code."
-- Frank's take on Sarte's notion from No Exit (February 2025).
"Oh good, there's no pulse. A guess that sounds a little weird."
-- A nurse verifying that a vein was not an artery (February 2025).
People want to belong. Religion wants people to belong to them.
-- Sue on the increased appeal of relgion to the young (May 2025).
"Americans do the right thing after they've exhausted all their options."
-- The "Fresh Prince"'s (not that one) take on markets (May 2025).
"Silver is poor-man's gold."
-- Non-ironic investment advice from John S (May 2025).
To be fair, it could be crack dog and not cocaine dog.
-- Sue being pedantic on how to refer to the dog that got
into its owner's stash, twice (June 2025).
"I'm about to make you as confused as a leader of a major English
speaking country."
-- Someone about to make a request at the ticket table
for the EHFC Pancake Breakfast (June 2025).
"I was going to say 'frisbee.' I don't know why it came out as 'shrimp dick.'"
-- Trying to provide any context, like how it was late and and we had
had talked about mantis shrimp, wouldn't really explain Rob's
surprising word choice (June 2025).
"$1496.25 is stupid. So we should just put $1495."
-- I guess $1495 is OK since it just implies the seller thinks
the buyer is stupid. I didn't mention that to TA (June 2025).
There are more baseball code parity updates I need to do at some
point but it should all work as is currently.
-- I spent time trying to figure out what Kevin meant with this
new hip programmer slang "baseball code." It was Google email
autocorrect of "base code." Nnnggg... (June 2025).
"If there's one things I'm really good at, it's holding a grudge."
-- Pierre plays to his strengths (July 2025).
"He's creepy for a German."
-- What's telling is that Seb is German too (July 2025).
"You are such an anomaly, Frank!"
-- I still don't use a smartphone; Brad still is shocked (July 2025).
"I have mixed feelings about AI."
"It doesn't matter."
-- I readily admit that Simson is right (July 2025).
"I don't trust anything for which there is no German word
('retreat' being one of those things)."
-- Antonia has doubts about attneding a Sanskrit Retreat (July 2025).
But we cannot prove its truth with anything short of an infinity of tests,
so the truth of scientific hypothesis always remains a bit elusive. We
accept the truth of such hypotheses only after extensive testing fails to
falsify them. This leads us to see science as the pursuit of disbelief.
The scientist is always striving to prove his or her theories false, and
accepts them as true only after extensive tries to falsify tyem fail.
This is in contrast to religion, wherin practitioners accept a premise
to be true until overwhelming evidence is provided to the countrary."
-- George A. Hazelrigg, Research 101 For Engineers, date unknown.
I saw this while reading up on NSF grants (October 2025).
Obviously it's a terrible time to break a 2FA method. On the other hand,
it's a natural time to break a 2FA method.
-- Sadly, Judson is parodoxically correct (October 2025).
The list of previous selected "quotes of now" for 2025.