Comments on: Minor delays http://www.logophile.org/blog/2009/04/29/minor-delays/ blog of a logophile (not "logos", but "λόγος") Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:05:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=558 By: tikitu http://www.logophile.org/blog/2009/04/29/minor-delays/comment-page-1/#comment-6591 tikitu Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:46:01 +0000 http://www.logophile.org/blog/?p=656#comment-6591 <p>Sponts: That beer theory ain't cheery. Might have to give up for the final dissertatory effort...</p> <p>Robin: That's pretty much my problem too. I'll get three months in the new building, but (a) it's a cubicle farm, (b) new network admins means I might not keep all my lovely rights, (c) according to Olga somebody else's name is on what's supposed to be my door. I'm not looking forward to it...</p> Sponts: That beer theory ain’t cheery. Might have to give up for the final dissertatory effort…

Robin: That’s pretty much my problem too. I’ll get three months in the new building, but (a) it’s a cubicle farm, (b) new network admins means I might not keep all my lovely rights, (c) according to Olga somebody else’s name is on what’s supposed to be my door. I’m not looking forward to it…

]]> By: Robin http://www.logophile.org/blog/2009/04/29/minor-delays/comment-page-1/#comment-6590 Robin Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:39:53 +0000 http://www.logophile.org/blog/?p=656#comment-6590 <p>COSC here will be going through the same process, starting some time in May. I'm hoping later in May because I don't want to have to spend a couple of days moving, and then spend two days working in the new place until I submit.</p> COSC here will be going through the same process, starting some time in May. I’m hoping later in May because I don’t want to have to spend a couple of days moving, and then spend two days working in the new place until I submit.

]]> By: S. glaber http://www.logophile.org/blog/2009/04/29/minor-delays/comment-page-1/#comment-6587 S. glaber Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:21:10 +0000 http://www.logophile.org/blog/?p=656#comment-6587 <p>Ah, you're making me misty-eyed for Abstract Set Theory now; my tutor's corrections to my work would occasionally involve applying my reasoning to real-world sets, and demonstrating that I had shown that all cabbages were purple and sentient, or something similarly ludicrous.</p> <p>In 2001 I could prove the Schröder-Bernstein theorem in 10½ minutes from a standing start. Just now I had to run to MathWorld to remember what it <i>states</i>. <a href="http://www.pelagicos.net/MarineBiology_Seminar/Readings/Grim_Oikos_2008.pdf" rel="nofollow">I blame the beer.</a></p> Ah, you’re making me misty-eyed for Abstract Set Theory now; my tutor’s corrections to my work would occasionally involve applying my reasoning to real-world sets, and demonstrating that I had shown that all cabbages were purple and sentient, or something similarly ludicrous.

In 2001 I could prove the Schröder-Bernstein theorem in 10½ minutes from a standing start. Just now I had to run to MathWorld to remember what it states. I blame the beer.

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