"Pull yourself up by your bootstraps" : C/D

I mean boots don't even HAVE straps anymore.

Only physically possible if you're a cartoon, also.

For reals!

TS: the 'pull yourself together' vs. 'accept yourself as you are' schools of psychology

Bootstraps is totally an economic American dream thing. The only reason I like psychology is right now my therapist just lets me doodle for her and talk about it or rant my ass off (Fortunately this is free).

aka 'suck it up'
which i never even heard until i was 23
i guess i was in the 'just do it' generation

Have you just done it?

i was listening to 'super going' today, which is i believe is boredoms version of this

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i am being it

i do need new boots though

haha JUST DO IT, do you think Nike would've gone through with that slogan if they had known it would've one day been used to seduce a 17 yr old me into trying el ess dee for the first time?

My boots have those toggle things at the back, if that counts.

I also view just getting out of bed as pulling myself up by my bootstraps, bc basically the entirety of my body is wholly against such a move.

haha
in highschool at the height of my competitive sports days i had two sweatshirts with JUST DO IT (swoosh) on them. i mostly only wore them at sports-related times though; i felt a weird adolescent mixture of sporty/lame/subversive/dirty/whateveridontcare

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I had a cool pair of yellow Nike Cortezes but I felt like a poseur wearing them. "I don't even PLAY sports!" So I wore them 3 times in four months & gave them to Salv Army.

I wonder if Nike had to do like Ratatouille did when they first came out and specify "it's pronounced NIGH-KEY" when they first started out.

Haha I mean really in Greek it's more like KNEE-KAY so whatevs!

WORKS FOR ME

http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/122/hill/thomas.jpg

dammit stence you totally beat me to it.

I think bootstraps are basically classic, on par with fucking the homecoming queen.

in other words, barely anyone does it and when they do it's not that great.

rrobyn, in high school cross country we had tshirts made that said SUCK IT UP across the back, which we wore on the day of our first meet. the whole team was made to change and given detention because the principal thought it was a saying with dirty connotations.

omg i wish i still had those JUST DO IT sweatshirts b/c i wld put SUCK IT UP across the back for sure
and then i wld get detention and learn how to pull my bootstraps up and maybe figure out how to fuck the homecoming queen

I have to bootstrap my galaxy models to get them going. Apparently this is fine, but it gives me terrible scientific angst if I stop to think about it.

Me, bootstrapping yesterday. The idea is to get all those lines as flat and as close to zero as possible.

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/9071/residualszp0.gif

That is pretty.

i would put it on a sweatshirt

Right now it is destroying me, but yeah, I love IDL's (the graphing language) font. It's this weird vector thing designed in about 1993 made up of perfect geometric shapes. I think maybe I will start a graphs thread.

graphspergers

;)

Hmm, did you make them all equal zero by getting rid of all the lines apart from the one closest to zero?

It's beautiful. It also looks like something plotted by a 1960s mainframe. Is that an actual scan from paper?

rrrobyn: We have a winner

Hold on, I am trying not to lose my second poker tournament Mark!

haha yeah i take back my ;) and replace it with a :o

Mark, each line is the difference between the brightness I measure for a galaxy as you move outward in radii and another group's measurement of the same quantity. This other group (2MASS) are the kings of photometric calibration so you just define their value to be correct and scale your data to whatever they get for the same galaxy. This difference should ideally be zero at all radii.

Here's the plot for one galaxy. In the top plot my data is black, 2MASS's is red. The bottom plot is the difference between the two. The first graph I posted is all of the bottom pane plots for my sample of 30-something on one graph.

http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/5669/ngc0128ah3.gif

stet, I have no idea why it's that off-white. It's a conversion from the Postscript file, which should be nothing (i.e. white where there are no lines). The font is what gives it that 60s vibe. IDL is this Fortran descendent which, in the early 90s, was top of the class for scientific vizualization. I'd rather not be using it, but it has got a lot of library support in astrophysics and atmospheric physics so doing so saves time in the short term.

I try a rough value to add to my data to calibrate it and then remeasure the position of the galaxy (adding values to every pixel means its centre and the angle its disk makes with north change). I then tweak the calibration value and go again. The first try

is the bootstrapping. So this wasn't entirely a thread hijack!

I say you can teach a man to fish, but what if all the river been done fished out of fishes?

Fishing is hardly a survival skill these days anyway!

more like teach a man to phish amirite?

teach a man to skank

ts bootstraps vs. brastraps