Things more interesting than Lubbock...

[Deleted member 8507]

reading Jon Miller's soliloquy in the other thread

 

[StClone]

String Theory Lectures:

 

[dirtyninety]

Project Vulcan?

 

[MeanDean]

Oddly specific -- is that still sitting on top of your toilet tank after all these years? did your grandfather use it before you?

Totally random date. That's what makes it brilliant. It seems very specific, but it's pull out of nowhere.

 

[cdface]

String Theory Lectures:

Now that's actually up my alley.

An aside: For anyone that cares, which is probably no one, a lot of hope was put into String Theory being able to solve some of the most fundamental mathematical problems with high energy physics. Up to this point, though, almost nothing groundbreaking has come from it besides some great conceptual ideas and some interesting new ways to do some extremely difficult calculations of Standard Model physics problems (otherwise known as the gauge-gravity dualities). Some of my friends who studied String Theory for their PhD are starting to move on.

 

[DurangoCy]

My friday night, barely.

 

[jdoggivjc]

Going to the dentist
Playing paperclips

 

[ISpyCy]

The Cleveland Browns.

 

[SpokaneCY]

WRNL got us started. What else can we add? (Make sure you click on the tweet to see more in the comments)

My colonoscopy.
Your colonoscopy.

 

[SpokaneCY]

Now that's actually up my alley.

An aside: For anyone that cares, which is probably no one, a lot of hope was put into String Theory being able to solve some of the most fundamental mathematical problems with high energy physics. Up to this point, though, almost nothing groundbreaking has come from it besides some great conceptual ideas and some interesting new ways to do some extremely difficult calculations of Standard Model physics problems (otherwise known as the gauge-gravity dualities). Some of my friends who studied String Theory for their PhD are starting to move on.

Wow. Lubbock looking a little better.

 

[cdface]

I resemble that remark! (#64)

Isn't Siggy from Boone too?

 

[I-stateTheTruth]

I've been to Lubbock twice before and I'm amazed that they are able to get recruits. There is literally nothing for miles outside the town, just dirt. Inside city limits is dirty and open. Weeds growing out of all the sidewalks and a mall that feels like a zombie film is going to shot soon. Flying into the airport you feel like you're on a different planet. I've been a lot of places in the US and Lubbock is top 3 worst places I've been.

My work has taken me there a few times and I can't dispute what you're saying. Once, in May or June, it felt like someone was walking next to me with a blow dryer on my face. A blow driver that blew grit. I've been in a number of places at TTU and the campus is not without its beauty.

 

[I-stateTheTruth]

Now that's actually up my alley.

An aside: For anyone that cares, which is probably no one, a lot of hope was put into String Theory being able to solve some of the most fundamental mathematical problems with high energy physics. Up to this point, though, almost nothing groundbreaking has come from it besides some great conceptual ideas and some interesting new ways to do some extremely difficult calculations of Standard Model physics problems (otherwise known as the gauge-gravity dualities). Some of my friends who studied String Theory for their PhD are starting to move on.

So string theory is not at all like string cheese? Huh; I was totally off on my assumptions on that topic then.

 

[Jiub]

1) Listening to Sarah Huckabee Sanders read Walden by Henry David Thoreau.

2) Waiting 4 hours at a crowded DMV to renew a drivers license

3) Long ass video game loading screens

4) Pooping and forgetting to bring your phone

5) Watching Golf on the television

6) Going clothes shopping with your girlfriend for an entire day.

7) Reading tax code

8) Bingo marathon at the nursing home

9) The color beige

10) Watching Mike Leach trying to get money from TTU

 

[ISU4Life]

I've been to Lubbock twice before and I'm amazed that they are able to get recruits. There is literally nothing for miles outside the town, just dirt. Inside city limits is dirty and open. Weeds growing out of all the sidewalks and a mall that feels like a zombie film is going to shot soon. Flying into the airport you feel like you're on a different planet. I've been a lot of places in the US and Lubbock is top 3 worst places I've been.

Ok, you have me, what are the other two.

 

[SpokaneCY]

4) Pooping and forgetting to bring your phone

To document?

 

[RezClone]

1. Driving from Dubuque to Sioux City.
2. Visiting your in-laws for the weekend
3. Manhattan, Kansas
4. Ben Carson's bachelor party
5. Hokeye basketball

 

[scottl2001]

My work has taken me there a few times and I can't dispute what you're saying. Once, in May or June, it felt like someone was walking next to me with a blow dryer on my face. A blow driver that blew grit. I've been in a number of places at TTU and the campus is not without its beauty.

I've been there on business as well, many years ago. I was told that the EPA once issued air quality warnings for the city, not due to pollution, but dirt blowing around town. I believe it.

 

[cdface]

1. Driving from Dubuque to Sioux City.
2. Visiting your in-laws for the weekend
3. Manhattan, Kansas
4. Ben Carson's bachelor party
5. Hokeye basketball

Bridge too far.

 

[gocy444]

Ok, you have me, what are the other two.

Wow. Lubbock looking a little better.

Ok, you have me, what are the other two.

East St. Louis takes the cake (it's just downright scary). And western Nebraska as a whole comes in second. I'm sure there are some nice places there, it's just everytime I've driven across the state it's with anticipation of going to Colorado.