Physicist Fence
They have erected a small black fabric fence running along the side of the university campus near us. I naively thought it was a silt fence, used to control sediment flow and erosion from the road construction project beginning there. My son B has corrected me. He informs me that it is actually a “physicist fence” which is used to keep the physicists on campus and prevent them from roaming free in the community and administering random physics lessons to unsuspecting citizens. I am lucky to have an expert around to inform me of these things.
I’m not the only weirdo on my block…
In case you too have an obsessive fascination with our home on the prairie, Morris, Minnesota, there is another blog based in my neighborhood, and the latest talk is about all the construction going on. College Avenue, the street running……
Trackback on May 27, 2008 @ 1:44 pm
Maybe the physicists like to look at the big construction trucks. No matter how smart one is, aren’t big trucks always neat?
Comment on May 27, 2008 @ 2:26 pm
What is the world coming to? Is this a nerd sniping canned hunt?
Comment on May 27, 2008 @ 3:05 pm
Thank the FSM. I’m terrified of learning random facts about physics. Just thought of it makes me ::shudder::
We need more of these fences. I call for action! More fences to keep the physicists where they belong! CONTAINED!
Comment on May 27, 2008 @ 3:25 pm
the construction workers can always tell a engineer, physicist, hacker, and any true geek. Mostly by the way they walk into things while looking and thinking too much. They remind them of architects.
Comment on May 27, 2008 @ 3:31 pm
I lol’d. In fact, this made my day.
Comment on May 27, 2008 @ 4:26 pm
@ Tara: still appropriate:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/44260
Comment on May 27, 2008 @ 4:57 pm
I have a lost-looking physicist here, and he doesn’t have any tags. Think he’s one of yours?
Comment on May 27, 2008 @ 9:04 pm
What we need are biologist fences. To keep biologists from wandering around, picking up stray samples at stray locations at stray times, and annoying the family dog. I mean, physics doesn’t really threaten our self esteem, but biology, properly applied, does.
And doesn’t it get annoying when Myers shows off his latest acquisition from the “Evil Cephalopod dark Lord of the Month Club” around the neighborhood? (Heard he has enough points saved up to have Cthulhu flown in for a play date.)
Comment on May 28, 2008 @ 12:47 am
Do Physicist travel in waves or as particles?
Comment on May 28, 2008 @ 1:45 am
Actually, as you can see by observing the snobbily groomed green on one side, and the beautiful dandelion wilderness on the other, it is a groundskeeper fence, meant to prevent errant lawn-care professionals from subjecting innocent weeds to horrifying slaughter.
Comment on May 28, 2008 @ 11:59 am
NERD SNIPER! Do left and right shoes violate the Equivalence Principle? (If it is tenured faculty, replace the shoes with “chemically identical, opposite parity mass distributions”).
Comment on May 28, 2008 @ 1:06 pm
How do you know if it is working- surely you can know if some one is a physicist, of where he is, but both together.
Comment on May 29, 2008 @ 7:47 pm
…sorry NOT both together.
Comment on May 29, 2008 @ 7:47 pm
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