Stephen Hawking is looking for an assitant

Syringer

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One purpose of the job was to aid the professor in areas which he has difficulty due to his disability, the posting said.

:Q Sounds like a glorified elderly home nurse.
 

DAGTA

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Originally posted by: Syringer
One purpose of the job was to aid the professor in areas which he has difficulty due to his disability, the posting said.

:Q Sounds like a glorified elderly home nurse.

Back when he was still a Mathmatics professor, his grad assistants did help him eat and do other activities.
 

LordMaul

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Stephen Hawking is looking for an assitant

I hope you don't plan on applying.
 

MichaelD

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Originally posted by: LordMaul
Stephen Hawking is looking for an assitant

I hope you don't plan on applying.

Beat me to it. :p

BTW, totally OT here: Does Stephen Hawking own Hawking Electronics? They make lots of Wireless stuff. I've always wondered. :confused:
 

LordMaul

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BTW, I'm thinking this is only open to Cambridge graduates, which I think we have a shortage of at ATOT. At least, that's the impression that the actual job listing gives.
 

Rumpltzer

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I use to see him every summer when he?d come to Santa Barbara for a few weeks to hang out with the physicists. I?d be leaving the lab after midnight, and his entourage would be loading up the van looking as if they?re getting ready to leave. I was surprised that the guy has enough energy to last so late into the night.
 

DainBramaged

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Originally posted by: Rumpltzer
I use to see him every summer when he?d come to Santa Barbara for a few weeks to hang out with the physicists. I?d be leaving the lab after midnight, and his entourage would be loading up the van looking as if they?re getting ready to leave. I was surprised that the guy has enough energy to last so late into the night.

I hear he's real big into cocaine.
 

alimoalem

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Originally posted by: MichaelD
Originally posted by: LordMaul
Stephen Hawking is looking for an assitant

I hope you don't plan on applying.

Beat me to it. :p

BTW, totally OT here: Does Stephen Hawking own Hawking Electronics? They make lots of Wireless stuff. I've always wondered. :confused:

i hope not. Haking Electronics sucks
 

sygyzy

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Originally posted by: MichaelD
Originally posted by: LordMaul
Stephen Hawking is looking for an assitant

I hope you don't plan on applying.

Beat me to it. :p

BTW, totally OT here: Does Stephen Hawking own Hawking Electronics? They make lots of Wireless stuff. I've always wondered. :confused:

Stephen Hawking is indeed the founder and CEO of Hawking Electronics. He once said in an interview with Wired that he was tired of pursuing trivial matters such as quantum physics, the fourth dimension, and black holes. He sought to cease the mindless drab of theoretical physics by starting his own second-rate company that makes networking equipment for dumb housewives that frequent Staples.