Quotes from around the department
LSU 2009-2011
It's always good to stay ambitious. -Rob Hynes
If we do it one day at a time... sorry, I'm thinking pregnancy now. One *lightcurve* at a time. - RIH
Point to the west and hope for the best. -Andrew (on morning twilight flats)
I wanted to start with Chris and drag him through the coals a bit... in a nice way. -RIH
It's always a fun thing to do... for some definitions of fun. -RIH (on cloudy weather observing projects)
The first rule of data reduction is do no harm. -RIH
For experience, it's good to do the stuff that shouldn't work. -Rob Hynes
Chris: I presented a poster.
Collin: Like a science fair for post-grads?
(on spirited lines) "Brad-like states" -Rob
Chris: We're going to make a three wiggle cutoff.
Rob: And the wiggle is?
Chris: Standard deviation.
A star is like a bad with a certain opacity that just starts leaking. -unknown
They've disproven everything, meaning their straw man isn't very wise. -Brad on string theorists
Mental note: Brad and Andrew are doing something shady. -Rob
Nothing ever gets stolen until it does. -Rob
As a graduate student, you only *appreciate* as much statistics as you need. -Gary C.
There are survival strategies that save you from going sane... um, insane. -Rob
Fortunately in real life, you're never going to encounter a real mathematician. -Brad
Rob: You said one of the three. You've only drawn two.
Andrew: So you see one of the problems.
They physics of it works at least... maybe. -Andrew
Apparently dark matter has all been figured out - they just don't know what it is. -unknown
I can twist his soul pretty bad. -Charlie
You can't undo the Spanish Inquisition. -Valerie
The average human is a hermaphrodite. -Rob
Sometimes you inherit these things because you're the last person to step back. -Rob
How do you grade better? With alcohol or caffein? Is it an evening job or a morning job? -Rob
Changing your life, one sigma at a time. -Valerie
Valerie: Can you do it upside down?
Andrew: I'm magic like that.
