I pull myself away from contemplating a Monty who manages to look disappointed, resigned, and snarky all at the same time to ask: how did Google Translate's monkeys manage to translate "Fiorentina" to "Chelsea"?
I didn't say it was evil, I think it's funny -- Google obviously have people who like to mess around working for them, what with whatever that Douglas Adam reference math answer hidden in there at all.
Google Translate's place names seem aggressively wrong these days, I'm starting to think there are humans in there, gumming up the works. Steaua, for example, is now always translated as "Manchester," which makes Google tell use we're facing yet another boring EPL v EPL Champions League match ...
It's an EPL conspiracy, maybe? They figure if they change every non-English club name to an EPL club, pretty soon we'll forget there are other leagues?
(I'm ditching dinner -- well, ditching being social at dinner, I stole food and came back to my room -- to work on my presentation/mess around on the internet. And I'm planning to get out of the "social hour" after the next round of activities as soon as possible to do the same. So, with copious amounts of said ditching, yes, it is survivable.)
(Oct 24th. And please don't say, "oh, you have plenty of time!" because it's presenting ALL THE DATA I HAVE ACCUMULATED OVER THE PAST YEAR and is pretty much "let me justify to why you are a) giving me money to research this REALLY EXCITING THING and b) paying my salary".)
(I will not say that, it sounds absolutely terrifying. Is your poster thing @ the retreat anything to do with your presentation, or is it something else entirely?)
(My poster [OVER WITH NOW] was a small subset of my data. The presentation is a lot more of it. And the poster was just a walk by "huh" while the presentation is the entire department trapped in a small room for an hour listening to me talk. So, yeah. Stressfull.)
(Hmmm, kind of, I suppose. Posters are very important at scientific conferences; essentially if you're somewhere for science and you're not giving a talk, you present a poster. Often you do both. It's a chance to talk one-on-one with people about your work, something you can't do when you're presenting. I came home yesterday evening, so now it's frantically trying to get the work I need to do done.
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Yeah, not going to work.
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(How is your retreat going? Survivable so far?)
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How's London? Enjoying yourself?)
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