tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24761391.post2270032339916109008..comments2023-10-26T22:06:11.166+11:00Comments on Metamagician3000: Big day today - and an open threadRussell Blackfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431324430596809958noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24761391.post-78333279454947877922009-04-01T01:40:00.000+11:002009-04-01T01:40:00.000+11:00"Doctor, doctor, can't you see I'm burning, burnin..."Doctor, doctor, can't you see I'm burning, burning!" -- Thompson TwinsRickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11559498325963631079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24761391.post-23439125186250444952009-03-31T23:26:00.000+11:002009-03-31T23:26:00.000+11:00Congratulations Dr Dr.I didn't realize there was a...Congratulations Dr Dr.<BR/><BR/>I didn't realize there was a Humanist society in Melbourne; I guess I hung out at all the wrong places when I was on that part of the planet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24761391.post-53650963532445377232009-03-31T21:15:00.000+11:002009-03-31T21:15:00.000+11:00Congratulations, congratulations!Congratulations, congratulations!John Pierethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17336244849636477317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24761391.post-4857420258338170482009-03-31T17:25:00.000+11:002009-03-31T17:25:00.000+11:00Congrats,Dr Dr Blackford !!Congrats,Dr Dr Blackford !!clinteasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24761391.post-89853423875116425812009-03-28T19:54:00.000+11:002009-03-28T19:54:00.000+11:00Another great talk Russell. I was trying to think ...Another great talk Russell. I was trying to think of a scenario in which a member of a church congregation could possibly be charged for vilification against his own church or its members based on a sermon. <BR/><BR/>I do think that atheists are vilified all the time and yet no laws are in place to aid them. The American public would rather vote a gay person in office than an Atheist. Its not so extreme here but not so far from that either.Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15351052576013276838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24761391.post-19842786203531373062009-03-28T10:19:00.000+11:002009-03-28T10:19:00.000+11:00So can we call you Doctor Doctor Blackford now?So can we call you Doctor Doctor Blackford now?Coathangrrrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08871110366959354660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24761391.post-24378964383516449582009-03-27T09:24:00.000+11:002009-03-27T09:24:00.000+11:00I sometimes think I'm making too much fuss about t...I sometimes think I'm making too much fuss about the double PhD thing. But it feels a bit as if I've suddenly got two at once. The first was so long ago, and has had so little relevance to most of my career, that most of the time it doesn't feel as if I really have it. But it does feel that much more real now that I have the much-more-relevant-to-my-work second one, and the fact is that it is, well, the second one. If that makes some kind of scrambled sense.Russell Blackfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12431324430596809958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24761391.post-16112384379345297922009-03-27T06:28:00.000+11:002009-03-27T06:28:00.000+11:00Double congratulations!(My only doctorate is still...Double congratulations!<BR/><BR/>(My only doctorate is still <A HREF="http://scienceblogs.com/sunclipse/2009/02/thats_herr_doktor_professor_st.php" REL="nofollow">the one I got on an envelope</A>. Sigh.)<BR/><BR/>Wazzup with me? Currently, I'm playing with a set of bacterial metabolome data I downloaded yesterday, seeing if I can duplicate the results in a journal article I read, and maybe run a few tests they apparently failed to do. I've also been futzing with various pieces of video-editing software, to see if I can do something useful and edifying with the footage I recorded of the Westboro Baptist Church's recent protest at Harvard.Blake Staceyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13977394981287067289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24761391.post-77882875075095150942009-03-27T04:39:00.000+11:002009-03-27T04:39:00.000+11:00Congratulations! I don't know how anyone has the ...Congratulations! I don't know how anyone has the stamina to do two PhDs in one lifetime. I walked out of my PhD viva in a daze, barely knowing where I was. "Never again" I thought. Mind you, I felt the same after the BSc and MSc.Steve Zarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16867968082532563442noreply@blogger.com