Geek Jokes

[driverrob]

tvrolet said:

..... It were all fields, as far as the eye could see...

Spot on.
That made us two oldie programmers chuckle.

[glenrobbo]

Happy Star Wars Day to all of you in the Rebel Alliance.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

glenrobbo said:

Happy Star Wars Day to all of you in the Rebel Alliance.

May the Fourth be wifth you all, alwayth.

[anonymous-user]

Vaud said:

TooLateForAName said:

Resonated.

My eldest is currently looking at doing astrophysics at uni. On a recent university visit we looked at the astrophysics section in the university library - it contained only a small collection but did include a copy of nostrodamus and several books on casting horoscopes.

That's York off the list.

Are you sure that a low paid shelf stacker hadn't got astrology and astronomy mixed up?

Personally I assumed that was the point he was making.
Can't trust the librarian then who can you trust?

[shed driver]

I mourn the passing of public libraries, in fact I go all Dewey eyed.

SD.

[Mr E]

s3dave said:

Those were the days, I first DEC was a PDP11 (forgot all about that). Before that a gigantic mainframe and punch cards. Mainframe probably as powerful as my IPad! But yes always a mistake on one of the cards, Manually self punch a replacement card and another day’s wait to re-run (then find another mistake!)

No probably about it. Pretty sure the ipad is dramatically more powerful than that mainframe.

[Vaud]

keirik said:

Personally I assumed that was the point he was making.
Can't trust the librarian then who can you trust?

It’s a terrible way to choose a university.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

shed driver said:

I mourn the passing of public libraries, in fact I go all Dewey eyed.

[TooLateForAName]

Vaud said:

keirik said:

Personally I assumed that was the point he was making.
Can't trust the librarian then who can you trust?

It’s a terrible way to choose a university.

She wasn't keen anyway - current preferences are oxford and st andrews.

But the fact that the university library not only has actually bought books on casting horoscopes and such crap but then puts them in the astrophysics section is not reasuring. Yeah I'm sure the dept has its own library and there is a whole internet of stuff. But when her bookcase at home contains more up to date and relevant stuff than the university library it isnt great.

[MartG]

[Romcom]

Bugger, I thought the title said ‘Greek Jokes’

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Romcom said:

Bugger, I thought the title said ‘Greek Jokes’

That urns you a chuckle from me.

[Voldemort]

[eharding]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

Call youselves geeks and you can't even query the custard? Shame on you.

University of York Library Search, Astrophysics, Main Library

[TooLateForAName]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

Have a closer look at that list.

188 books.

Alter it to show things published in the last 10 years
20 books.

Look at the actual titles.

[MartG]

[Vaud]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

There is a stronger case for not selecting York. While a lovely city to be a student in, and having some very good departments, their rampant expansion and multi campus model has removed a lot of the intimacy that the former York had, particularly impacting the inter-college experience... as I understand it...

[Mr E]

I drove past over Easter. There was a lot more of the university than I remembered.

[Morningside]

MartG said:

Please explain.

[Stuzza]

Morningside said:

Please explain.

They're docks. There's two of them. A pair of docks, you might say