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Even before the accident, Xavier had a thing for chairs. – Ms. Fix-It
Favorite Comment: Fixer slapchop says, “In addition to his teaching, Professor X is also the chairman of the board at the Lion’s Club.”
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What a surprise! This photo is from Lithuania, where I live. It’s the profesor in Vilnius or Kaunas technology university. I can’t remember
so the department chair is using and/or being used by the department chair. WIN!
Ohhh good one!
Do the Russians call him Vilnius Nastavnic … “The Vilnius Schoolmaster”?
What have Russians got to do with it?
In Soviet Russia Chair rules YOU!!
He looks nothing like Marco Ramius. Or Sean Connery.
At least someone caught my movie reference…
Wait a minute… THE professor? Shouldn’t there be more than one? At either university?
Hard to say. This could be Gilligan’s Island.
The title of professor is used less liberally in countries outside the US. In most European countries it’s reserved for senior academics only.
The word “the” is used less liberally in certain countries. In most former Soviet republics it’s reserved for speaking in foreign languages.
The chap is Asian. We affectionatly refer to him as chairman Mao
Rulers also work pretty well for those kind of things…
Really? I find dictators are much more adept at getting their point across.
This guy must be one of those Enlightened Despots I’ve always heard about.
Thing czar really looking bad for our teachers here in America…
Does being able to read and write the language of math add up to this guy being a functioning totaliterian?
(All right, all right, I’ll admit I’m out of ideas.)
Proffesor X uses a rocking chair when he grades on a curve.
mastery grading scale gives him an LP on using a chair
“If a student is failing to progress toward mastery, he receives an LP grade”
Yeah what a pro!
In addition to his teaching, Professor X is also the chairman of the board at the Lion’s Club.
And he likes to listen to that classic 80′s song, what’s its name? Chair-ish The Love?
*applauds*
Do you have a list of his favorite chair-ities?
… meanwhile, in Sweden …
I just respect people for their creativity to use what’s around
It’s not round, it’s straight.
I have seen this on two other sites TODAY! c’mon… he’s not fixing anything!
But he’s using some really unrelated object to solve a problem.
What I say is, couldn’t he use, for example, a book? It’s easier to handle and lighter.
A book isn’t long enough.
Technically he’s solving two problems…. Those of the ruler and the function in question.
Epic.
I thought it was on this site within the last week.
Meter/yardstick is holding up the broken chalk rail. Since the chair is now occupied like this, there’s a student sitting on top of a bookshelf, which was unused anyway because the books are stacked to hold up the professor’s desk where the legs are missing. Guess the photographer should ‘ve zoomed out a bit.
don’t think i’d trust a mass produced chair as a straight edge
Since the end of the chair is a bit curved, it helps with higher order functions.
He’s not doing it wrong, he just has creative approach to the lack of proper tools in classroom.
Right. He should get one of these:
http://thereifixedit.com/2010/01/05/rule-of-thumb-get-a-new-ruler/
If he wanted to reach the hearts of the students so that math would make a truly lasting impression, the professor knew that he needed to have an interesting angle.
That and the fact that nobody gonna mess with him if he can use a chair like that. Forget throwing the chalk at an unruly student.
somehow, i just feel this picture is sitting on a good story.
His theory doesn’t have a leg to stand on.
and that is why he is using a chair… it supports his theory by 3 legs!
This is what happen when the class is given by the new Faculty Chair!
*rummages around in desk drawers*
*looks under papers on top of desk*
Now, where is that darn yardstick of mine? It was here yesterday… *mumbles*
*looks around room*
*spies chair*
*spies vertical blinds*
*ponders*
How heavy could it be..?
Y = (.5X – 3) / CHAIR
…and then a miracle happens.
Cutbacks to school funding meant adequate classroom supplies and equipment were sadly lacking. For example, you can see the difficult straits that this particular professor is facing.
I hope he used a ruler to check the straightness of the chair…oh wait…
I’m always impressed by the mathematical mind. Except when I once got a C in math. ARGH!
I was always happy for a C in math.
As if nails weren’t bad enough. I’m hearing impared and even I will be running to the Nuclear Bunkers.
There’s no C in Math. Did you flunck spelig 2?
Using a chair as a ruler, thats not a kludge…
Covering that baldness with a “Dr. Emmett Brown” wig, THAT’s a kludge!
The absent-minded professor looks even funnier sitting at his desk on a yardstick.
ouch
he knew that the chair leg was straight – he had a high spirit level… this guy rules, some might call him the chairman of the board.
And so..the back of the chair is equal to the hypoteneuse of the seat. Any questions?
for some strange reason, this remind me to my high school math class….. and my university math class as well! ah, all this memories….
the teachers from public entities FTW!
He should just sit down.
Just wait until he starts working the exponential graphs. Or imaginary numbers.
Reminds me of a professor I had in Boulder. He would turn his back to the blackboard, lean against it and use his sweater as an eraser. We would laugh when he turned his back to us to show us his chalk laden sweater.
My history teacher in high school was a woman with very large, um, bosoms, and would write on the chalkboard, then when she turned around, there were two big, round spots on the board, and chalk on her ample chest.
I guess the school was too cheap to buy proper erasers.
I had a science teach like that , but he smelled of whisky!
the guy is wearing a suit.
if he leans across the chair, no chalk gets on his suit. there he fixed it.
how you like him now?
I had a teacher who would lean on the blackboard, then when he took a step forward there was a big round wet spot on the board. Even though he was obviously sweating a lot and must have been quite warm he always wore thick knitted sweaters.
“Now, class, can anyone furnish me with the correct answer?”
no problem
let me grab a seat first
Finally, Benny Lava, you have met your match.
Jimmy was a mouthy kid. So much so that the ruler no longer left marks. Till one day Professor X proved why he was the teacher and not the student. Jimmy has been quiet since.
circle = trash can?
Next topic: Circles. Jimmy, did you bring that barrel of beer like I asked you?
You know, if the picture had been taken just a liiiiiiitle further to the left, I would have been able to graph those linear inequalities.
Oh well.
soooo i guess a circle is a ummmmmm a soda can >:0==()< its a giraffe!
don’t ask about the giraffe….im pretty random….TASTE THE FLIPING RAINBOW!!….ya see……
“Here at Kludge University, when it comes to shaping the minds of future kludgers, all of our professors have a chairy disposition.”
Are you sure this is not Leslie Nielsen in some Zucker-Abrams-Zucker movie?
If a student is failing to progress toward mastery, he receives an LP grade
Professor X gets an LP in using a chair