The Tesla Club is a fraternal organization for scientists to debate and share ideas in an exclusive social setting. It's highly exclusive, there are Nobel Prize winners who have been turned down for membership because their work wasn't groundbreaking enough.
Professor Erskine - he's the Dean of Engineering at NYU - has been trying to tempt me away from the Business School and into the Baxter School of Engineering there, so he arranged for me to attend as a guest, and last week their membership voted to extend me the invitation. So tonight I accepted.
Please. It's not Greek. There are no keggers or silly initiation ceremonies or pledge brothers. It's more like... MENSA without all the self-righteous assholes.
The guys who invented Google were inducted in 2002. Although one of them declined, because he thought a club full of scientists wouldn't have any women. Totally wrong. Totally.
Doubtful. A lot of the old-school members like to take pride in the "You don't find us, we'll find you" mindset. Even though it's pretty much an open secret in the academic community.
It's interesting, though. To be around people that are veritable giants in their field, and to be treated like an equal. It's staggering and more than a bit humbling.
It's what young professionals do to unwind together, and sometimes discuss business in a less formal setting. It's like the jock equivalent of a power lunch or something.
I dunno. There's a health club near here that I've been wanting to try out, and I want to pick your brain about something, I decided why not just combine the two.
So... basically it's a club for super genius nerds. Gotcha. How about you put a towel on the artifical leg and come join us normal people in some, uh, lemee see if I can figure out how to put this in Forge Speak.
Friction-reduced application of Newton's first law.
(Thank you, thank you, that'd be that B- in Physical Science you helped me get, yeah. I know, who da man, Forge da man. Just get your half metal self down here. This is fun.)
No. It is rather fun to make Forge walk into a wall. Almost as fun as the time I flashed my bra at Marius to make him fall off the balance beam during PE.
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The Tesla Club is a fraternal organization for scientists to debate and share ideas in an exclusive social setting. It's highly exclusive, there are Nobel Prize winners who have been turned down for membership because their work wasn't groundbreaking enough.
Professor Erskine - he's the Dean of Engineering at NYU - has been trying to tempt me away from the Business School and into the Baxter School of Engineering there, so he arranged for me to attend as a guest, and last week their membership voted to extend me the invitation. So tonight I accepted.
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Okay, so I'm googling your frat to see if there are togas and I can't even find them. How much of geniuses can you be if you're not even in Google?
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It's interesting, though. To be around people that are veritable giants in their field, and to be treated like an equal. It's staggering and more than a bit humbling.
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You only reconstructed and upgraded Haroun's cyberware on the fly while he was almost at death's door...
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Doesn't it make you giggle? You know it does.
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Now I'm tempted to go look up how many of my old Sigma Tau brothers are still around...
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I suddenly have serious nerd envy.
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By the way, what is this email sitting in my inbox about racquetball? What in the world is racquetball?
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I dunno. There's a health club near here that I've been wanting to try out, and I want to pick your brain about something, I decided why not just combine the two.
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Besides, we should be able to figure this out. It's all math and angles and patterns and elastic collisions, right?
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And now, I go to test my aerodynamic physique out in the hall. Avanté!
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So... basically it's a club for super genius nerds. Gotcha. How about you put a towel on the artifical leg and come join us normal people in some, uh, lemee see if I can figure out how to put this in Forge Speak.
Friction-reduced application of Newton's first law.
(Thank you, thank you, that'd be that B- in Physical Science you helped me get, yeah. I know, who da man, Forge da man. Just get your half metal self down here. This is fun.)
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Yippee!
(I am liking this new word very much. It is being a happy word)
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Which, I may add, makes this very fun to watch.
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