Mom and Dad
At our celebration dinner for Katy’s passing her oral exams and me getting accepted into school.
At our celebration dinner for Katy’s passing her oral exams and me getting accepted into school.
You did it, Katy! Congrats on getting your Master’s in Mathematics (I don’t know if those words should be capitalized, but they seem important enough to be capitalized) by passing a ridiculously rigorous, stressful and difficult oral exam! I knew you could do it. Whether or not you decide to get your Ph.D., you’ll always be the best math solver that I know.
Gaelic style: May your equations always add up, your integrands always integrate, and your proofs always prove. May the LaTeX be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face; the variables fall soft upon your pages and until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand.
Clue style: Katy Micek, at the University of Minnesota, with a pencil.
Woo!
The more I have learned and grown as a world citizen and the more the seeds of a liberal arts education have germinated within my brain, the more I have realized the incredible gift of a democratic government that we have here in the United States. That’s not to say my ignorance of the election system isn’t shocking — in fact, today I read through the Wikipedia article about Super Tuesday to understand what, exactly, happens on this day:
In the United States, Super Tuesday commonly refers to the Tuesday in early February or March of a presidential election year when the greatest number of states hold primary elections to select delegates to national conventions at which each party’s presidential candidates are officially nominated. More delegates can be won on Super Tuesday than on any other single day of the primary calendar, and accordingly, candidates seeking the presidency traditionally must do well on this day to secure their party’s nomination. In 2008, Super Tuesday is February 5; 24 states will hold primaries or caucuses on this date, with 52 percent of all pledged Democratic Party delegates and 41 percent of the total Republican Party delegates at stake.
Super Tuesday is tomorrow. To avoid a premature, misinformed, unfocused political debate, I will not venture the current candidate I favor at this time. Later this year, however, I promise we will get to have a good tumbledry political discussion. Focus is the key.
The main message here, though: get out and participate in your political system by reading about presidential candidates tonight, and caucusing for one of them tomorrow, on Super Tuesday. Please.
I just found out at The Blue Shallow that John passed his boards. Congratulations, John!
I found out in the middle of last week that I PASSED the National Boards I took late last year. So what does this mean? Provided I graduate in May, I can practice as early as the first business day after graduation. The National Boards say whether or not I will have a License to practice Veterinary Medicine. And now I can.
Now go out and celebrate, you’re a doctor!
Working on getting my deep blacks and bright whites exposed correctly on the first try.
Mykala got this card as a congratulations when I got into school. Love this card.
Feist sings “Sea Lion Woman” live, on YouTube. The description:
damn this rocks live!
That’s pretty accurate.
A little timing goes a long way.
Old magnetic tape — it holds 60 megabytes on 620 feet of tape! Wow!
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