sweetmintmojo ([info]sweetmintmojo) wrote,
@ 2009-02-06 17:34:00
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Current mood: bzuh?
Current music:R.E.M.
Entry tags:2.671 lab, partick thistle, professor peacock

One of the More Bizarre Things To Have Happened This Week
*Lab starts*

Grace: Professor, why does the oscilloscope start flatlining when I change the pulse frequency to 200?
Professor: Well...*explanation*

*more lab*

Professor: Can you tell me why the voltage iterations are so large here?
Grace: Because it's a digitally converted signal? Um...? *further babbling*

*more lab. lab ends. Grace begins to pack up her oscilloscopes and leave*

Professor: Before you go - you're from Glasgow, aren't you?
Grace: Yeeess. How so, Professor?
Professor: Well, I lived there for seven years when I was growing up. What part of Glasgow?
Grace: Bzuh? Well, Partick originally...
Professor: Me too! I lived beside the West of Scotland Cricket pitch! I am a rabid fan of Partick Thistle!

*Cue ten minute discussion of Scottish football*

That was moderately surreal. The one thing I am left wondering is how he survived seven years in a Glasweigan primary school with the last name "Peacock".




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[info]cobweb_diamond
2009-02-06 11:26 pm UTC (link)
not only is his last name peacock, he is a massive science nerd. "survived" is the word indeed.

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[info]shirley_1989
2009-02-07 11:33 am UTC (link)
Ahem, one of my FoMP lecturers has the surname Peacock. And all he does is vectors and matrices and vectors and matrices and so on.

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[info]wrongeyed_jesus
2009-02-07 11:47 am UTC (link)
Wow. That is a skill surviving that. Though, in his youth he may have been a kick-boxer.

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