Thomas Williams

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since January 25, 2001

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January 25, 2001, on Career Guide for Engineers and Computer Scientists:
Phil, you are one provocative guy. Not only here, but in other threads, such as those at the ARS Digita community. This type of humor (when done once) is referred to as "Bathos". I always wonder when it is over-done, or there is too much. Saturday Night Live tries it too often, with mixed results - much like what is happening here. If these are your personal photographs, you are quite accomplished. I wonder if you are commenting about Ph.D.'s in general, or just MIT. Click and Clack do a darn good job of putting lofty MIT degree holders in thier proper place (verbally, of course). Do you really think that gaining a Ph.D. from an highly (over?)-rated school is likely to result in destitution? I don't think so. Anyway, keep up the provocation. Heck, someone has to. 'nuff said.