The Off Topic Topic

[PDH]

The Kaiser was swimming in the babes, they all wanted some of that 'stache.

[Malthus]

The Kaiser was swimming in the babes, they all wanted some of that 'stache.

Wasn't he more into dudes? 

[PDH]

I said nothing about what he was into, just what the babes wanted.

[Valmy]

The Kaiser was swimming in the babes, they all wanted some of that 'stache.

Wasn't he more into dudes? 

I thought he only had eyes for fine military uniforms.

[Syt]

[The Brain]

Helmet with giant eagle on top.

That's a miniature eagle, ya goof.

[Malthus]

Helmet with giant eagle on top.

That's a miniature eagle, ya goof.

The Kaiser bestrode the world like a collossus, he did. 

[Jacob]

So apparently, the guy who outed the Duke student who is doing porn to pay her tuition is getting a bit of attention too (and an offer to star in porn): http://cltampa.com/bedpost/archives/2014/03/06/bully-who-outed-duke-porn-star-has-his-porn-preferences-publicized#.Uxo7q-ddXdY

Dear Mr. Bagley,
First off, I would like to thank you for being such a fan of our business. For someone who subscribes to a site like Facial Abuse I want to commend you for spending the $200 a week your parents send you every week for living expenses wisely. Facial Abuse is a great site! There is nothing like watching a new girl getting a huge cock viciously rammed down her throat. I like your taste!

I want to also commend you on getting accepted into Duke. Great school! I am sure your parents are proud. I bet you pull straight A's when you're not whacking it to Facial Abuse and Casting Couch movies. I love our fans and I love you! You are the type of guy that makes our business move.

With that I would like to make you an offer. As I sit here in my office at 6:30 on a Wednesday night I am writing a check for $10,000 to pay to the order of Thomas Bagley. I want to give you the opportunity to live out all your fantasies. In addition to that 10K, there is a plane ticket and hotel room with your name on it out here in sunny Los Angeles. Screw the polar vortex. Get your ass out and come shoot for us! I will give you the opportunity to bang ANY porn star you want. We will make you a celebrity because it is apparent how much you love porn and attention.

10 Grand is a lot of money for a kid like you. Do you know how many porn memberships you could buy with that? That is more than a lifetime membership to Facial Abuse!

I ask that you seriously consider our offer. Any girl you want! Come out to LA and become a star. ALSO, for every inch you are packing over 4, I will throw in an EXTRA $1,000. Get your tiny pecker out here and become the next Ron Jeremy kiddo!

All my best,

Mike Kulich
CEO
Monarchy Distribution

[Ideologue]

Yeah, don't throw me in the briar patch.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

LHC forum at Fermilab has banned PowerPoint from meetings:

Physics by hand
To encourage discussion and engagement, a physics forum has banned PowerPoint slides in favor of low-tech whiteboards.
Amanda Solliday

A physicist is more than the sum of his or her slides.

That's why, about six months ago, organizers of a biweekly forum on Large Hadron Collider physics at Fermilab banned PowerPoint presentations in favor of old-fashioned, chalkboard-style talks.

"Without slides, the participants go further off-script, with more interaction and curiosity," says Andrew Askew, an assistant professor of physics at Florida State University and a co-organizer of the forum. "We wanted to draw out the importance of the audience."

In one recent meeting, physics professor John Paul Chou of Rutgers University (pictured above) presented to a full room holding a single page of handwritten notes and a marker. The talk became more dialogue than monologue as members of the audience, freed from their usual need to follow a series of information-stuffed slides flying by at top speed, managed to interrupt with questions and comments.

"We all feel inundated by PowerPoint," Askew says. "With only a whiteboard, you have your ideas and a pen in your hand."

More interaction was exactly what the new leadership of Fermilab's LHC Physics Center wanted when they approached Askew and Yuri Gershtein, a former LPC distinguished researcher, to think of ways to better engage LHC scientists in the United States.

The LPC is the US hub for the CMS experiment, one of the four major experiments at the Large Hadron Collider. Many Fermilab scientists and university researchers across the United States are involved with the center. The LPC physics forum serves as platform to discuss ongoing work and future goals of US efforts.

PowerPoint gives speakers an easy way to document their presentation so others can readily review the material later. But Elliot Hughes, a Rutgers University doctoral student and a participant in the forum, says a ban on slides has encouraged the physicists to connect with their audience.

"Frequently, in physics, presenters design slides for people who didn't even listen to the talk in the first place," Hughes says. "In my experience, the best talks could not possibly be fully understood without the speaker."

Now we need more organizations to fight back against this scourge.

[Ideologue]

More PowerPoints means more e-discovery.  We need more PowerPoints.

[crazy canuck]

So apparently, the guy who outed the Duke student who is doing porn to pay her tuition is getting a bit of attention too (and an offer to star in porn): http://cltampa.com/bedpost/archives/2014/03/06/bully-who-outed-duke-porn-star-has-his-porn-preferences-publicized#.Uxo7q-ddXdY

Dear Mr. Bagley,
First off, I would like to thank you for being such a fan of our business. For someone who subscribes to a site like Facial Abuse I want to commend you for spending the $200 a week your parents send you every week for living expenses wisely. Facial Abuse is a great site! There is nothing like watching a new girl getting a huge cock viciously rammed down her throat. I like your taste!

I want to also commend you on getting accepted into Duke. Great school! I am sure your parents are proud. I bet you pull straight A's when you're not whacking it to Facial Abuse and Casting Couch movies. I love our fans and I love you! You are the type of guy that makes our business move.

With that I would like to make you an offer. As I sit here in my office at 6:30 on a Wednesday night I am writing a check for $10,000 to pay to the order of Thomas Bagley. I want to give you the opportunity to live out all your fantasies. In addition to that 10K, there is a plane ticket and hotel room with your name on it out here in sunny Los Angeles. Screw the polar vortex. Get your ass out and come shoot for us! I will give you the opportunity to bang ANY porn star you want. We will make you a celebrity because it is apparent how much you love porn and attention.

10 Grand is a lot of money for a kid like you. Do you know how many porn memberships you could buy with that? That is more than a lifetime membership to Facial Abuse!

I ask that you seriously consider our offer. Any girl you want! Come out to LA and become a star. ALSO, for every inch you are packing over 4, I will throw in an EXTRA $1,000. Get your tiny pecker out here and become the next Ron Jeremy kiddo!

All my best,

Mike Kulich
CEO
Monarchy Distribution

Now that is funny

[Ideologue]

I seriously don't understand how it's supposed to be a punishment.

I get to bang Lexi Belle and get paid $17,000?  That's almost a whole semester of college.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

More PowerPoints means more e-discovery.  We need more PowerPoints.

No, more electronic documents means more e-discovery.  Plus, you realize more e-discovery means more work for companies like mine replacing drones like you, right?

[Ideologue]

I'd also be annoyed if I were male talent working in the industry.  They do not, by my reckoning, get paid $10k a shoot.  I guess the lesson is to be an asshole?