Robert Pastel

Robert Pastel is a Computer Science Professor at Michigan Technological University. Known in the field of computer interface/interaction for his thirty-two publications and four patents. Dr. Pastel is also the LUG's faculty advisor.

Mispronunciations

• Assmentope

• Addmentode

• Assmentoticly

• Iterinteritable

• Gooder word

• Armortization, Armortized Analysis, etc.,

Coding

• If you write code like this, I don't only suggest, but I give you permission to go home and shoot yourself.

• Pops is a beautiful object oriented programmer.

• I had it right. Well damn you all!

• That's what we want; full, bushy trees.

• When we get to the trees, then we go down.

• JAVA has a priority queue, it's called PriorityQueue.

• One of the key things is knowing where the insert position is.

• Why don't I like that? Because it would totally work.

• Oh! Oh! I understand... Your just not giving me a complete answer

• Why don't I like that, because it would totaly work.

• I had it right!... well damn you all!

• We would have to kill you after you wrote it.

Conversations

• [reply to being asked why he lived in the university's student apartments]

I do not need a house, only a room with a computer.

• What happened?!?!

I think you forgot to plug it in. (student refering to the overhead projector)

• [students talking in the background]

Who has that deep loud voice? - It's a real nice voice. (seductively)

• What is the height of a complete tree given n?

three?

No! Log n! (sighs)

• [lights go off]

Ugh! Why'd I do that?!?

[overhead light still on, humming in background]

I turned off the wrong light!!

[lights go on, overhead goes off]

Miscellanious

• He has a really ulgly face.

• Whats the nude?

• I was totaly used!

• Thats beating a dead horse.

• I got so used to people not taking notes, I get upset when they do.

• You can remember me fondly as Mr. Nice Guy.

• Damn Robert, he's skiing and we've got to take this stupid test.

• Most definitely, probably...

• Brian! The only one... Special Brian.

• Don't fight with me. Go fight with my ancestors or something.