Re: [Leica] PhD qualifications

["Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>]

Bill-
Oviously, you would have saved you a lot of time had someone merely told
you,
"Don't eat the yellow snow!"
Dan ( ... and I can still 'dot' the 'i', too!)
- ----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Larsen <ohlen@lightspeed.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Cc: <KPETERS@huntel.net>
Sent: Friday, August 27, 1999 2:22 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] PhD qualifications


> ROFL
>
> My thesis was on the analysis of the spatial distribution of aged persons
in
> Long Beach, California.  But just prior to the thesis, I had written a
paper
> on the lateral distribution of e.coli from arctic DEW sites in freeze and
thaw
> conditions over time.  Both thesis and paper, I am sure, have had
significant
> impact upon our culture.  I just know that if I actually get to the arctic
> tundra, I
> am not going to drink the snow nor water without boiling it first.  Not
> suitable for a
> PhD dissertation because rather than piled deeper and higher it just
spreads
> laterally.
>
> Regards, Bill Larsen
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: KPETERS <KPETERS@huntel.net>
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Date: Thursday, August 26, 1999 9:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] PhD qualifications
>
>
> |Hey, I'm not knocking grad school! Thanks to it I am now able to afford a
> |Leica! ha!  KPeters
> |-----Original Message-----
> |From: R. Saylor <KPETERS@huntel.net>
> |To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> |Date: Thursday, August 26, 1999 11:20 PM
> |Subject: Re: [Leica] PhD qualifications
> |
> |
> |From:           "KPETERS" <KPETERS@huntel.net>
> |To:             <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> |Subject:        Re: [Leica] PhD qualifications
> |Date sent:      Thu, 26 Aug 1999 22:29:37 -0500
> |Send reply to:  leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> |
> |> I'm not sure if this was touched on, but when I was in grad school, the
> |> terms were B.S. (bullshit), M.S. ("more shit"), and then, Ph.D ("piled
> |> higher, and deeper!")....
> |> ps.  My masters thesis was on the identification of mosquito vectors of
> |the
> |> dog heartworm in Nebraska!  What  a hoot that was!!
> |
> |I beg to disagree with your putting down the importance of grad
> |school. My Ph.D. thesis was something like "Generalized Boundary
> |Values in the Dirichlet Problem" (Rice U., 1966). By now I'm sure it
> |is a favorite topic of conversation at the breakfast table all over
> |America and perhaps the world.  :-)
> |
> |Richard S.
> |
> |P.S. Speedy recovery to Dr. Blacktape.
> |
>