# The end of an era – a reflective MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [December 4, 2006, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799 "2006-12-04T10:18:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 16
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799/301 "2006-12-07T17:51:39Z")
It’s very chilly. I just walked to Mass and back, stopping for groceries on the way home, and it’s -14C with windchill. I am going to make pizza. I cheated and bought the dough. I’m going to do red sauce with meatballs (pasta sauce I made yesterday) and white sauce rosemary potato. It’s cold Cold means fat and starch. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799/302 "2006-12-07T18:38:19Z")
[QUOTE=Lissla Lissar] It’s very chilly. I just walked to Mass and back, stopping for groceries on the way home, and it’s -14C with windchill. I am going to make pizza. I cheated and bought the dough. I’m going to do red sauce with meatballs (pasta sauce I made yesterday) and white sauce rosemary potato. It’s cold Cold means fat and starch. [/QUOTE] Very chilly my butt, that’s frigging cold. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799/303 "2006-12-07T18:44:19Z")
I want pizzzzzzzzzza! -whines- -14C IS frickin’ cold. It’s around -8C here, and that’s more than enough to discourage me from venturing outside today. ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799/304 "2006-12-07T18:48:18Z")
72 Amurkin degrees here and “No Snow” signs once again working. Nava has a car? Did she take it to Switzerland??? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799/305 "2006-12-07T18:52:17Z")
I saw a car sittin’ on the side of the road on the way to work this morning. Was that **Nava’s** car? Wasn’t she gonna take it to Switzerland? Would a chocolate cuckoo clock taste funny? **Puggy** it’ll be mid 70s here again next week. It’s been sorta kinda coolish all this week. Go figure. Oh and good for Grampus charming the staff. That’s the way to do it! ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799/306 "2006-12-07T19:11:57Z")
I am eating potato pizza. I will shove pieces through the cd drive for anyone who wants them. It’s not too bad out. I’m fine down to about -15C before windchill, and then I get cranky. You just need a good coat, hat, and mitts. I really do like winter. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Blue-Sighted\_Shadow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecae2f/32.png) [@The\_Blue-Sighted\_Shadow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Blue-Sighted_Shadow)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799/307 "2006-12-07T19:13:39Z")
A spider bit me in three places on my right arm and now they itch like crazy. I think that’s what the bump on my face was, too. I wish I could bug bomb the house. I don’t mind spiders, but I do mind being bitten. I’m not on the menu! I started putting up the tree last night. I wish I had colored lights now, instead of the clear ones. So far, the cats have left it alone. Then again, who knows what they’re doing while I’m at work. ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799/308 "2006-12-07T19:16:12Z")
GAH! You people are _crazy_. I come back into MPSIMS to catch up on the MMP and I thought this was last week’s resurrected. “Surely that’s too big to be the newest one,” I thought. Oh how wrong I was. Seven pages by Thursday. At this rate we could have 15 by Sunday. Whaddya say we go for it? YEAH! MMPH! _fist pump_ _ahem_ Anyway, I enjoyed the coffin pun, that’s a classic, and I have a trio for y’all to chew on. > [@Tuesday](#): > > My brother Eduardo, the border patrol cop, was telling me how he arrested the driver of a truck containing 50 cases of boots. I asked him how he knew to make the arrest. He said, “It was easy. The shoes were laced with marijuana.” > [@Wednesday](#): > > “Dude, you’re really going to spend 3 days inside an ice chamber?” > “Yeah, no sweat.” > [@Thursday](#): > > At the inaugural opening of the new Pearl Harbor memorial, I was lounging around with my friend Steve, the operator - lounging because there was no one there. Not a single attendant. I said, “Cheer up Steve, the memorial is in its infam-cy.” Potato pizza? Brilliant! Where can I find a recipe? In other news, I just got my second round of Physics GRE scores. I improved from a dismal 32nd percentile to a slightly less dismal 36th percentile. I figure that when I take it again I can get up over 40th percentile. With that, I’m leaning towards getting a master’s at Dartmouth, dropping Amsterdam, and then transferring to Waterloo (hopefully) for a PhD. We’ll see how it works out. **Haze** , good luck on that last paper! **rigs** and **boofae** : Play nice, kids. Don’t make me come over there. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799/309 "2006-12-07T19:37:57Z")
[QUOTE=ScareyFaerie] Sorry to disappoint you but there isn’t going to be a catfight. It’s tremendously rude to wipe the floor with someone on a first date…and **rigs** deserves to have that catfight with someone down at her own level instead of trying to elevate herself to mine. Now then, where’s that paper, Haze? [/QUOTE] Not nice. I may pout all day. I am back from the library and ready to finish my Paper–without 'er over there’s 'elp. Pissing in cornflakes? catfight? You all don’t know humor when you read it! ah, well. Haze–why, o why would you do a paper on that? It sounds skeery to me. By all means, hand it over to **Boobooface** (I have to call 'er over there that all day-it just fits). I am on my conclusion! Woot! It is freaking cold out there today! I was going shopping, but now I’ll be good and finish my Paper. My professor in my other class couldn’t find another one of my papers, so I had to send it to him --it will never end! **Spats** -tell me it ends, please! and what do you say to a youth librarian who has never read Harry Potter? :eek: I met one today… ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799/310 "2006-12-07T19:42:09Z")
**Rigs** you are finding out the real truth about grad school. It is there to torture you and make you hate it. We tried to tell you. The sooner you finish that paper the sooner you can move on through grad school. Like I said before, years from now you’ll look back on the experience and say, “I hate it just as much now as I did then.” That’s the real lesson of grad school. ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799/311 "2006-12-07T19:49:52Z")
[QUOTE=swampbear] Would a chocolate cuckoo clock taste funny? [/QUOTE] Yes, if you mean “funny odd” as opposed to “funny ha ha.” ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799/312 "2006-12-07T19:57:57Z")
[QUOTE=Tupug Anachi] Yes, if you mean “funny odd” as opposed to “funny ha ha.” [/QUOTE] Two cannibals were eating a clown… ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799/313 "2006-12-07T19:59:48Z")
[QUOTE=swampbear] Two cannibals were eating a clown… [/QUOTE] Now THAT is odd. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799/314 "2006-12-07T20:02:41Z")
[QUOTE=Tupug Anachi] Now THAT is odd. 😉 [/QUOTE] Why Thank You **Puggy**! That’s the nicest compliment I’ve had all week. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799/315 "2006-12-07T20:06:14Z")
[QUOTE=swampbear] Two cannibals were eating a clown… [/QUOTE] Little Red Riding Hood to the Big Bad Wolf: “Now, you’re gonna EAT ME just like the book says…” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799/316 "2006-12-07T20:07:55Z")
[QUOTE=VunderBob] Little Red Riding Hood to the Big Bad Wolf: “Now, you’re gonna EAT ME just like the book says…” 😃 [/QUOTE] Okay, we’ll change the ending. This could be interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799/317 "2006-12-07T20:53:39Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] **Spats** -tell me it ends, please! [/quote] It ends. > [@rigs](#): > > and what do you say to a youth librarian who has never read Harry Potter? :eek: I met one today… You say, “GO READ IT.” And I’m beginning to wonder if maybe it was **swampus** and grad school having that catfight … ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799/318 "2006-12-07T20:58:13Z")
Cold front is apparently about to charge thru the area. It was just over 50 when I came home, with threats of low 20s tonight. If \*\*FCD \*\* gets home while it’s still light out, I’m gonna ask him to uncover the chimbley. I don’t know if I’ll do a fire tonight, but I’ll definitely do one tomorrow. Work was kinda cool today. I found out I’m \*waaaaaaay \* ahead of everyone on the project. No surprise at that, but it was kinda gratifying. I sat down with two of my teammates - gave one the data he needed, and he was happy, then talked to another about his approach on his part and what I could give him, and what I needed from him. Dang, does that sound dirty to you, too?? :eek: The project is (pardon the use of this word) synergistic. All the engineers have their specialties, but they’re all inter-related. So we have to share our outputs and get inputs from each other, and in the end, we will, in theory, have a product that takes all the important stuff into consideration and gives a reliable answer. I played with my semi-related spreadsheets and came up with some good starting data. Plus the second guy and I figured out that we’d ignored a particularly important piece of the puzzle, so I gave him some info that he’ll have to manipulate so he can give me back some requirements… Forget it. Just suffice it to say that in the end, we’ll be able to help a whole lot of people. Fortunately, none of our calculations involve chocolate cuckoo clocks. So there’s that. I thought about pokin’ da **bear** , but he gets so abusive that I’ll just pass. Oh, one final thing - some months back we had our house appraised for an equity loan. I finally got a copy and I read it over. We have oil heat. The appraiser put us down as having propane. I don’t know if it matters in the grand scheme of things, but that lack of attention to detail makes me wonder what else he might have missed. Whatever - the value of the house shot way up in 2 years, so I’m not worried. Except I should probably change my homeowners insurance. PS to \*\*rosie \*\* - watch _The Fifth Element_. It’s fun. Weird, but fun. And it was “Leloo Dallas multipass” ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799/319 "2006-12-07T21:01:26Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] … and what do you say to a youth librarian who has never read Harry Potter? :eek: I met one today… [/QUOTE] Well, I’m not a librarian, and I’ve never read it. And what little I’ve seen in passing of the movies didn’t much appeal to me, either. Each to his own. _\_ Are librarians really expected to have read everything? ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799/320 "2006-12-07T21:06:04Z")
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