Ah-Mazing Quotes From My Favorite Professor!

So I have this awesome professor at UCLA who says the funniest things in class!  And I don't mean just some days he says funny things...I mean like every day he says these things!  It was my favorite class to go to and so I've decided to dedicate a blog post to him!  Here's a compilation of my fave ones!

Some of them might not make sense to everyone, but honestly they don't really have to, they're just hilarious!  Enjoy!

"Today's lecture is like a messy onion."

"I just hoo-hawed these people!"  -- About the NY Times publisher

"Don't get all big pants" -- To computer scientists

"I'm mostly known for being only partially lame."

"No matter how you chop off the tail, the body still looks distorted."

"The swash-buckling crew" -- our class I think...

"I went huhu-ugh too early...it's a problem that I have"

"You'll never lose a bet if you bet I'll be disorganized."

"You plug things into it.  It's called a formula, that's what you do.  It's not the Sherman-Morrison-Woodbury blender.  I'm not gonna get a frothy beverage out of it!"

"We're gettin' fancy!"

"So hand-holdy"

"Recycle rule--that's awesome!"

"These twiddles (~) provide a kind of charm"

"Bad coefficients, no bone"

"It's the loosest thing on the planet--it's that friend of yours..." -- About RSS (residual sum of squares)

"Since I'm teaching, I get to give you stuff that's cute"

"Geez that's super sexy!"

"Let lambda be big ass!"

"A little hoo-haw dance"

"Stein's unbiased risk estimator -- we could all get kinky with that!"

"It's sort of like a Hindenburgh thing -- POP!"

"2 sexy things, well...maybe 3 if you count me!"

"It starts to quack like a distance"

"This is a concept I don't mind you learning on the street (aka Wikipedia)!!" -- About the term fiducial

"The likelihood route is pregnant with possibilities"

"That's so disco!" -- A man on his flight said this and he thought it was awesome...so do I!

"Sooooo much coffee today!"

"ABC is better than 123 because...well first of all it reminds me of Chef Boyardee."

"Everyone who's even a little bit awesome spent some time at Bell Labs."  -- He did of course

"Somebody gives you a tambourine"

"It's like that regression friend again -- it tries to keep a puritanical life but it just can't."

"I intentionally hoo-hawed him!" -- Some jerk who asked him a question at his talk

"Tomorrow -- big boy pants!"

"That's like the little league and he misses" -- About a guy in our class who got a question wrong (the prof always said he was like a son to him)

"You guys get all attentive when chalk comes out -- and that's bad -- just bad bad bad!"

"Happy sappy and sad gus"


Have a happy day!  I hope this put at least one smile on your face today! :)

How I'm Going to Become Famous

My friend from NC is in town and yesterday we had the pleasure of going to a movie premiere!  Now I don't mean we got to go in and watch the movie, but we were the crazy bystanders hoping to get a glimpse of some famous peeps!

Aaron Eckhart (sweetie that he is!) totally came out into the crowd to sign autographs and take pics!  He even took one with us!  And shook my hand twice! ;)  Oh yeah baby!!!  In case you are not a celebrity gossip whore like some of us, Aaron Eckhart was Harvey Dent/Two-Face in The Dark Knight!  He's a Silver Fox for sure!! ;)

Anyways, while I was waiting to be a fake paparazzi and stalk all my new fave celebs, I came up with a plan on how I could become famous too! (With minimal amount of work of course!)  Here's how it's gonna go:

• First, I need to find a bodyguard, who I will always call Bodyguard!  Let's face it, every hot up-and-coming celebrity has a bodyguard to protect them from the crazed paparazzi!!  So, I must have the same!  Here's an example of what Bodyguard could/must look like (to the right).  I'm now taking applications for the position of Bodyguard.  If you or someone you know fits the bill, hit me up!  You're probably already hired! :)

• Next, I need a group of fake paparazzi!  In order for the Hollywood tourists to believe that I'm actually a celeb, I need tons of people to be vying for my picture and autograph!  This is a crucial role!  If you live in LA and are my friend (or want to be my friend), you're hired!  The more the merrier!

• I will take a trip to Hollywood (where all the tourists thrive) and then the famous-ness begins!!!

• My famous name will be TerriAnna...dropping the Johnson completely and combining my first and middle names.  The paparazzi will start yelling TerriAnna TerriAnna, over here, can we get a picture?? etc. etc. And then Bodyguard will have to protect me!  At this point, all the tourists will be like..."Who is this girl?  She must be super famous!"  And then, they'll want to find out who I am!

• I'll have a website and tons of celebrity (fake) pictures!  It's gonna work out just great!  Who's with me??!!