Re:What do grad students in math do all day?
by Widdershin on Saturday March 16, 2013 @02:32PM
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That's the part of the article that stuck out to me. I mean, I used to have a lovely ginger cat who liked nothing more than to be vacuumed. I think that the author should ensure that his cat vacuuming experiments are more rigorous in future.
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Re:What do grad students in math do all day?
by iliis on Saturday March 16, 2013 @02:58PM
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Well, my cat gets scared to death by a vacuum cleaner. She darts out of the room as soon as it's turned on.
Its the motor noise. Once the cat is 20 years old and totally deaf (depends on breed...), I can verify the cat will love the vacuum cleaner. It feels like being brushed and massaged at the same time. I'm surprised day spas don't do this to humans. Needless to say this is using the hose and brush attachment, not the carpet beater.
Re:What do grad students in math do all day?
by chris_wot on Sunday March 17, 2013 @08:46AM
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If the nozzle is too large, or the cat too skinny, it risks getting sucked into the machine. Fair enough the cat is scared. Cats don't do math either. Well, perhaps Schrödinger taught his cat, but I hear it had a sticky end. Nobody is really sure.