Blog: Archive for November, 2000

Jimmy Carter on the (most recent) Middle East Crisis. I've been saying pretty much the same thing in private rants for years.
Thanks to the Rev.

Salon had some stupid things to say about Ikea. Pretty sorry.
From Salon.

Melissa O'Neill defends her Ph.D. thesis on Thursday (Nov. 30). She's been working on slides for her talk—she's currently up to 57 slides for a 30 minute talk. Yikes!

We popped up to the University to check out the room and make sure we could work the projector. Why are these things so complicated?

Whoo-hoo! Melissa is now Dr. Melissa! She did a great job with the presentation and questions, although one of her committee members almost sandbagged her by asking her if some obscure topic he'd never bothered to mention wasn't the same thing as some of the stuff she'd created. But she still passed, “with minor revisions”. As it turns out, the obscure topic isn't the same at all, so it's just a matter of taking care of some other changes. I guess I know what we'll be doing after Christmas....