Erasmus, FCD
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Joined: June 2007
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Re Roughgarden, I had the fortune to have lunch with this person just a few weeks after september 11. I was quite amazed at the lunacy I heard during that lunch session, she rambled about hyper-evolution within the Taliban, supported by two things: family connections to power and the fact that they all looked alike!!!! I really had a hard time keeping my mouth shut about that, esp since all the other grad students were kissing ass and wanking about their research (yeah, who cares, right? that's why visiting seminar speakers visit your school, to hear about how you catch striped bass in a ferris wheel looking thing).
It was rather entertaining though, she made so many comments about Jesse Helms that I just had to play devil's advocate and pretend to support him (actually the argument was, Hell, he's just what the people of NC want!!! Re-elected him since Moses!!!! Do you know better than hundreds of thousands of other people? not a strong argument, but it does turn the emotional tables). Turned into an interesting conversation after that and I think she realized she'd overplayed her hand and calmed down. Couple of the kiss up grad students looked at me like I had called her the things they were thinking in their own heads.
Good times. That is a weird bird there. Really sharp, but I completely disagree with a lot of what Roughgarden says though.
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You're obviously illiterate as hell. Peach, bro.-FtK
Finding something hard to believe based on the evidence, is science.-JoeG
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I work on molecular systems with pathway charts and such.-Giggles
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