Atomic City Talk

Carleton College's (Northfield, MN) Goodsell Observatory:

Before




And after the students spruced it up

Who knew that I could read AtomicCityTalk to get the latest news from my college alma mater?!? Years ago, I had 8 a.m. calculus classes in that building.

Thanks for sharing that, Opus. It looks like it was a great prank. I say "was" because a note on http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=18...5006150797 indicates that it was taken down before 9 a.m.

Small, small world! But how funny would it be to be able to claim to have learned calculus from R2D2?

Yes, that's a nice idea. Sad to say, it would require some time-warping, since R2D2 hadn't been invented back when I took calculus.

But Ellen, remember the beginning of the original "Star Wars"? It opened with the famous words "A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away." So R2 was invented a long, long time before you took calculus.

Anyway, I had no idea we had an alum here on ATC! Hopefully this brought back some pleasant memories for you.