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Comment: Thanks for all the fish. (Score 1) 1521

by Halo Nine (#37211018) Attached to: Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot

I remember discovering Slashdot in '97 or '98, at my first job out of college, a dot-com job. What a crazy time. How can it have been so long? Twenty years since my first concert - the first Lollapalooza, more than ten years since Fight Club came out, Steve Jobs resigning - but I still have two shares of Apple I bought back then at $32. I still remember the Slashdot blue-green (same as it is today, but without the gradient ;) ) and how every post, and every comment (above 3 or so) was SO smart and thought-provoking. It blew my mind. I've read Slashdot both more and less over the years... but I'm still reading. It'll be a little strange not seeing the CmdrTaco handle anymore, but life goes on. Best wishes, Rob. Anyways I have added you on my newfangled Google Plus. :)

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Journal: Logic 2

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A lot of people are not logical. When people aren't logical their beliefs are separate and polarized like fuses in a fusebox. They can be thrown any which way by the operator. Unless they're blown, I guess.

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Journal: Degrees

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Maybe a Ph.D. is like a badge. A cop might finish academy and get a badge, but that doesn't say whether they're a good cop or a bad cop.

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Journal: Plan for publishing

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Three books (a book every 6 years and 8 months).
Twenty articles (an article every year).

One book (or article) that becomes a little well-known.
Hold down a teaching job in the meantime!

Component steps:

Submit article
Revision process
Publication

Submit book
Revision process
Publication

What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.

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