Comments | krasnoludek: Philed, graduated and left Berkeley

krasnoludek

Philed, graduated and left Berkeley

May 30, 2009 22:38

Time to catch up on what's been happening in my life! So many events are keeping me busy ( Read more... )

san francisco, model theory, latex, administration, bureaucracy, berkeley, computers, academia

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congratulations! ajawa_took May 31 2009, 07:51:11 UTC

on getting that lollipop

Re: congratulations! krasnoludek June 12 2009, 01:27:01 UTC

thanks!

pirate_artist May 31 2009, 10:04:03 UTC

Hey, congrats! There is ALWAYS a last-minute problem with filing -- mine was that the employees were taking the afternoon off for an office party ;) Also, there is always a typo you notice right after filing -- luckily, yours was in lj and not in the diss!!

easwaran June 1 2009, 17:24:37 UTC

My typo was having left out a backslash in some of the LaTeX code for the index, so that on page 85 somewhere a LaTeX command appears in the plaintext, and presumably that page doesn't properly show up in the index for the relevant topic.

krasnoludek June 12 2009, 01:30:42 UTC

oh, those are annoying. I caught some italicized 'sigma's floating around in my mathematical formulas, so I'm pretty sure I didn't have any of those.

krasnoludek June 12 2009, 01:29:30 UTC

I haven't looked at my dissertation since I filed it, so I hope there wasn't a prominent typo. I have this irrational fear there's one in the acknowledgements or eep! the dedication, since those were the parts I typed up last. But I'm pretty sure I read through that to double- and triple-check. Still, I won't be sure until I open that file again (which may not be until I get my new computer).

Thanks for the congrats, though!

psifenix May 31 2009, 13:14:44 UTC

I get a mere mention, while aleph gets a whole paragraph? PS I think operation "cheese drop" was successful.

krasnoludek June 12 2009, 01:32:02 UTC

aleph is simply bigger than you.

Awesome. I would hate to think of what would have happened if operation "cheese drop" had awfully backfired.

psifenix June 12 2009, 08:13:28 UTC

That could have been messy. :0

Actually the guy had been out of contact with me for a while, so I was nigh on releasing the cheese to my roommates, but then apparently his wife got angry at him and made him follow up(?). Oh well, I was in Manhattan then, so I wouldn't have gotten to sample this delicious cheese anyway.

krasnoludek June 12 2009, 14:04:35 UTC

it seems like this cheese drop was a pretty one-sided idea... I don't know how much involvement the guy had at all.

quique12 May 31 2009, 20:22:42 UTC

Congratulations!

krasnoludek June 12 2009, 01:32:09 UTC

thanks!

oxeador June 1 2009, 02:25:34 UTC

Ah, the lollipop! That was fun.

Congratulations, doctor.

krasnoludek June 12 2009, 01:32:29 UTC

I've been tempted to eat it these last few days.

Thanks!