No pics?

DNRTFA, but headline reminded me of a CSB from my college days. In one of the labs at the college of engineering at TTU, there was a life-sized cardboard cutout of Mr. Spock. Someone hung a sign on him that said, "No cerveza, no trabajo." A few days later, somebody else put an INS hat on him. He stayed that way, with both hat and sign, for quite some time.

I love it when my alma mater makes the news.

Well, they had to justify those tuition increases somehow!

If you are going to pick Geek Icons, those two are about as conventional as you can get. A fail in going beyond conventional thought from that angle.

I...I approve of this.

I mean, when Gene Roddenberry conceived of Star Trek, it was rather revolutionary at the time. Same thing with George Lucas and Star Wars.

/DNRTFA
//We won't discuss the fark-up that was the prequel trilogy.

"I wonder how much they'd pay for it at the college?"



/Lunkhead

FTFA: USF Poly said it needed the sci-fi collection to "encourage inspiration beyond conventional thought" in its business incubators.

Well captain Kirk was in fact a non-conventional thinker - the whole reprogramming of the Kobayashi Maru scenario/test and the fact the man didn't really give a darn about the prime directive.

Darth Vader was also a non-conventional jedi although maybe not a good role model as his thinking turned to the dark side.

As for ET and the random storm trooper, well you got me on that one.

Is this one of those colleges that gives language credits for Klingon?

If I had money to burn I'd totally get a replica of Kirk's chair. Even better would be to wire up the controls to say the TV remote and some X-10 shiat.

RamboFrog: Is this one of those colleges that gives language credits for Klingon?

You mean I studied Spanish when I could have been studying Klingon?

/Majored in history. Kind of a waste, but what the hell else was I going to do?

Capt. Sparkles: No pics?

I find the lack of pics disturbing.

I guess "encourage inspiration beyond conventional thought" means "marketing move to fool applicants to apply to pay thousands of dollars to attend a school not because it is any good and their teachers are competent, but because they spent tuition money on Hollywood movie props".

Darth Vader and an Imperial Stormtrooper? Is USF going to design new uniforms for the TSA?

This, my OWS friends, is why your are in debt up to your eyebrows. Obviously not this one 10 thousand dollar purchase, but the fact that schools feel they need to waste money like this. Sure, there is a minimal benefit, but ANYTHING you spend 10 grand on would have a minimal benefit.

They have no reason NOT to waste money, they can just raise your tuition.

They also need Han Solo frozen in Carbonite.

SirEattonHogg: As for ET and the random storm trooper, well you got me on that one.

ET was chosen as a backup because they couldn't find a proper statue of Spewey.

USF Bulls, have you ever kissed a girl?

Capt. Sparkles: No pics?

Allow me:

Also:

And this is why a college degree is so expensive. They overpaid by about 4,000 bucks.

The grades of the kind of person who'd be inspired by this: No bloody A, B, C or D.

At least it wasn't something like this, of which I hold no appreciation for and does nothing to inspire thought other than "Why is that there?":

Stupid shiat like this is why college cost so much. The waste i see everyday is appalling, the OSWers should be going after higher learning.

As a USF CSE major (Main Campus), I object to the fact that we do not have any of the Enterprises. Do incoming freshmen even know who ET was? Most of them weren't born when that movie came out. At least the prequel which shall not be named has them knowing what a Stormtrooper is...

All the main campus $$ gets wasted on building new research centers and things. We never get the cool toys. Instead, we blow cash on ripping out staircases to cram 3 extra offices into an the Engineering building.

/Disgruntled about the ENB remodel

"Attention U.S.S. Enterprise, this is Captain Darth Vader..."

Nah, sounds too corny.

TimeWaste: At least it wasn't something like this, of which I hold no appreciation for and does nothing to inspire thought other than "Why is that there?":



With a few modifications that could become an utterly amazing Scalextric track. Sadly as it is all it does is remind me of the Nvidia logo, which must earn me some nerd points somewhere/