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My doctoral research has been rewarding so far as well (although I'm on the east coast and studying math and education). And I do enjoy reading the things you write about regarding debates and hot button issues ^^
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45002 Posts
My doctoral research has been rewarding so far as well (although I'm on the east coast and studying math and education). And I do enjoy reading the things you write about regarding debates and hot button issues ^^ | ||
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radscorpion9
Canada2252 Posts
 . Maybe we'll even see Sam!zdat on the news!!! That would be cool. I don't want to ruin the image I have in my head of you, but it would still be worth it. Anyway you're lucky your future is nice and secure. I hope I get that one day | ||
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Aerisky
United States12129 Posts
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fight_or_flight
United States3988 Posts
I'm not super into scifi, but I'm reading pkd's exegesis right now. | ||
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-ZergGirl
United States54 Posts
I work at one of the cafes at University Village, discount for you! I used to have streams playing on the TV before the boss told me to quit it. Should come by and talk StarCraftz | ||
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Recognizable
Netherlands1552 Posts
I have full funding with a nice fellowship, and the English department at Riverside has just put together a new interdisciplinary program in Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies, which as far as I can tell is just a fancy way to say "things sam wants to study." Haha, this is amazing. | ||
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sam!zdat
United States5559 Posts
On March 09 2013 10:23 GohgamX wrote: One day I know you will be over 9000. Gratz on the 4k! Thanks On March 09 2013 10:32 Aerisky wrote: Congratulations. Here's to many more thousands of posts! You're a great guy, and I trust you'll go far. Stay cool, stay hungry, and best of luck!! Sounds like you're going to have an amazing time there. I know we'll be speaking to Dr. Sam soon~ "Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est" "They can kill you but they cannot eat you, it is forbidden"?? On March 09 2013 11:23 Mothra wrote: Congrats man... exciting stuff. Surely the starcraft and TL debates will make its way in subtle ways into your academic output. not so far fetched. the starcraft ladder metagame is a very interesting meme structure! On March 09 2013 11:53 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: Congratulations on the 4K post benchmark and the PhD funding My doctoral research has been rewarding so far as well (although I'm on the east coast and studying math and education). And I do enjoy reading the things you write about regarding debates and hot button issues ^^ Thanks man! gl with your studies On March 09 2013 13:23 radscorpion9 wrote: whoaa a PhD! Now you are an intellectual elite person. I guess you'll soon have students looking up to you and following you around . Maybe we'll even see Sam!zdat on the news!!! That would be cool. I don't want to ruin the image I have in my head of you, but it would still be worth it. Anyway you're lucky your future is nice and secure. I hope I get that one dayLOL. I wish I had a big photo album of the pictures everyone had in their head of me. should be hilarious. I don't know if "nice and secure" is a good way to describe the academic job market, but I'm set for the next few years at least! On March 09 2013 16:18 Aerisky wrote: Well he doesn't have a PhD yet, he's just going to Riverside to begin his program ^^ psssh. consider it done. ezpz. On March 09 2013 18:20 fight_or_flight wrote: Congratulations on your fellowship. I hope you'll be able to expand people's minds. I'm not super into scifi, but I'm reading pkd's exegesis right now. Cool! how is it? I've got it but I've only ever leafed through it. I'd love to do some work on it someday. On March 09 2013 18:36 -ZergGirl wrote: Congrats all around I work at one of the cafes at University Village, discount for you! I used to have streams playing on the TV before the boss told me to quit it. Should come by and talk StarCraftzCool! Too bad about the streams, I would have gone out of my way to patronize a cafe with sc  I'll be sure to stop in!isn't it? ^.^ | ||
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Aerisky
United States12129 Posts
 wanted to toss in a completely random quotation :3Also I didn't mean anything about the difficulty or whatever, the person to whom I was responding just seemed to think that the blog was about having received the degree so I hopped in >< | ||
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MountainDewJunkie
United States10344 Posts
On March 10 2013 05:33 Aerisky wrote: Hahaha it's a quotation from Infinite Jest I think wanted to toss in a completely random quotation :3Also I didn't mean anything about the difficulty or whatever, the person to whom I was responding just seemed to think that the blog was about having received the degree so I hopped in >< You explain too much. | ||
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Aerisky
United States12129 Posts
I guess I just don't like misunderstandings, because sometimes they'll happen and then everything ends up getting confused, so I usually just like to go ahead and clear things up, you know?+ Show Spoiler + SELF-GONG Y u come into irc for 3 minutes and leave? D: | ||
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MaestroSC
United States2073 Posts
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fight_or_flight
United States3988 Posts
On March 10 2013 02:15 sam!zdat wrote: Cool! how is it? I've got it but I've only ever leafed through it. I'd love to do some work on it someday. For me it's been very good, partly because it doesn't stand alone for me but adds on to other things I've read (on the gnostic/nature of the universe side of things). Both the content is interesting and perhaps even more is the process his brain uses. I think his thought process is closely related to the thought process I wrote about (which obviously wasn't at a professional level). Dick obviously doesn't use deductive reasoning, imo, because he never arrives at a fixed conclusion, but rather goes in spirals. He's not crazy though because, within the context he is speaking in, it all makes sense. You should roughly know where I'm going with this because you read that thing I wrote. btw I'm referring to the 2011 version that's 900+ pages which I'm assuming is the one you have. I'm only 30% through it. | ||
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