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14187. alistairconnor - 3/17/2005 2:02:08 PM Those flowers came from a Dutch hothouse, so they don't really count...
BUT I can report that the snow is almost all melted at my place... temperature up to about 20 C, (from minus ten two weeks ago), the primeveres are out, the ponies have escaped from their paddock...
it's spring alright. 14188. alistairconnor - 3/17/2005 2:06:50 PM There's nothing much to be done about family. An elder sibling who thinks they retain some sort of moral ascendancy over you as an adult... that's a common misconception.
You've made your choices, you owe "France" nothing. 14189. Magoseph - 3/17/2005 4:49:44 PM Sorry for the rant, Ali and thanks for the good words. 14190. robertjayb - 3/17/2005 5:36:21 PM Speaking of words:
Barely into the second cup of coffee when I encounter this:
divagation
noun
An instance of digressing: aside, deviation, digression, divergence, divergency, excursion, excursus, irrelevancy, parenthesis, tangent. See approach/retreat.
Oh well, it's good to know a new word, but working this one into the palaver down at the feed store is going to be difficult.
14191. robertjayb - 3/17/2005 5:43:20 PM Speaking of Spring.
The post oaks began pollinating the past weekend, heralding the season of yellowish-streaked automobiles and trumpeting sneezes. Some showers since may help but I have Flonase at the ready, just in case. 14192. thoughtful - 3/17/2005 5:51:05 PM At the feed store? Cows have 4 stomachs, but i divagate... 14193. judithathome - 3/17/2005 5:52:49 PM I've got that Oak Shower here, too...no wonder I'm sneezing like someone in a pepper factory.
Mags, I think you should send that card back with no comment. Just return it and don't say a thing. That will fry her because she'll know you read it but have nothing to say to her. 14194. alistairconnor - 3/17/2005 5:58:01 PM Divagation : that's something stray dogs do, in France.
Divagating dogs will be impounded or shot. Words to that effect.
I do it all the time myself. 14195. alistairconnor - 3/17/2005 5:59:28 PM I wish my divagating ponies would come to the point. I'm off to the hardware shop in a minute, to get some materials for a proper concentration camp. 14196. robertjayb - 3/17/2005 6:21:05 PM Taking French leave, are they? 14197. PelleNilsson - 3/17/2005 6:26:24 PM We still have a lot of snow but the temperature has been well above freezing for the past 48 hours. As a result there is a lot of standing water everywhere because the ground is still frozen. Now temperatures well below freezing are predicted for the next couple of days. This will mean chaos on the roads and in the emergency clinics as the hip bone fractures pile in. And I have to go into the city early tomorrow. 14198. jayackroyd - 3/17/2005 6:44:12 PM Heh. It is nothing compared to St Patrick's day in my neighborhood. The parade ends 7 blocks south. 14199. iiibbb - 3/17/2005 7:30:29 PM PUBLISHED!!!
Man this has been a bitch. The manuscript was submitted last Feb and it got tied up in some bad reviews.
Called the editor today... he said he's going to recommend it through. 14200. PelleNilsson - 3/17/2005 7:37:12 PM Congratulations! 14201. robertjayb - 3/17/2005 7:38:38 PM Well done, iiibbb! 14202. iiibbb - 3/17/2005 7:48:37 PM I am excited, because this paper was really the centerpiece to my whole disertation. I came up with a new type of data analysis which solves, partially, a very difficult and highly confounded question.
This was my 'good idea'... I was beginning to wonder if it would be validated or not.
There are 2 ways you can get a PhD... the way they tell you is that you need to substantially advance or contribute to the science. The way most people wind up doing is have a good idea that doesn't quite work out and do an exhaustive evalution of why. It can be hard to get pubs out of the second way... so this is really big.
I will resubmit a related paper next week. Now I just have 2 others to write and that'll make 5 total that come from the dissertation. 14203. thoughtful - 3/17/2005 8:06:48 PM Wow! That's excellent and impressive!
Congrats! 14204. Magoseph - 3/17/2005 9:41:58 PM Good work, iiibbb, very happy for you. 14205. arkymalarky - 3/18/2005 3:18:46 AM Good deal, 3i3b! Congratulations! 14206. arkymalarky - 3/18/2005 3:22:14 AM I feel for you, Mags. I think Alistair's right, but it's hard not to let that stuff get to you, which is I think the main reason people do it.
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