Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Jun 9, 2009, at 4:45 AM, Don Dory wrote: > A very good time for you and your family. Much to be proud of in > the sense > of appreciation for hard dedicated work paying off in the intangible > (a > diploma representing education) and the tangible educated, talented no > longer child truly starting out in another world. > > Plus I will have similar news this Saturday when my daughter struts > down the > diploma mill runway. already finished with ? Chicago... congratulations Don...Steve > > On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo- > alto.ca.us>wrote: > >> Day before yesterday I was part of an intimate little crowd of 11,000 >> people who sat in plastic folding chairs under constant threat of >> rain next >> to the Charles River while about 2000 people were conferred with >> degrees at >> MIT. My youngest child, Elizabeth, who is a member of the LUG but >> has been >> too busy being a student to participate much this year, was awarded a >> Master's in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Her cap was >> attached to her hair with so many bobby pins that she needed her >> sister's >> help to get it off her head afterwards. (Last year at her BS >> graduation, the >> wind blew her cap off just as the official photographer snapped the >> official >> picture). >> >> I only got to the ceremony 2 hours before it started, so I was >> seated so >> far back that I couldn't see the stage. I did manage to get off a >> photograph >> of the Jumbotron video screen while it was showing a smiling >> Elizabeth, but >> I forgot that Jumbotrons are interlaced and set the shutter speed >> too high, >> so the picture is a little odd. But she showed me the diploma >> afterwards as >> proof that she really was up there when they called out her name. >> >> Elizabeth's sister (Vanessa) and I did some stopwatch work during the >> graduation ceremony, and we determined that they were reading the >> names of, >> and finding diplomas for, and sending across the stage, 32 >> graduates per >> minute. If you are not astonished by that number, why don't you >> find a list >> of 32 names from 20 countries and try reading them out loud and see >> how long >> it takes you. At least 2 of the test names must have more than 12 >> syllables. You get no credit unless you pronounce them all correctly. >> Rehearsing is permitted. >> >> I didn't get any pictures because I didn't really want pictures of >> the >> backs of the heads of other students' parents, and I was there to >> jubilate >> and not to photograph. So I bought package C-7 from the official >> event >> photographer, which will include a TIFF with right to print for >> family use. >> >> She's not flying home with me today because she's got a wedding to >> shoot >> next weekend here in Boston; then she'll fly home, soon to start an >> actual >> job in Cupertino, California. >> >> Thanks for listening. I'll probably stop smiling in a few weeks, >> but next >> year Elizabeth's sister will graduate from law school and I get to >> do it >> again. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > Don > don.dory at gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information