In response:
In response to s33k3r’s post about parallels between Rome and America; I’m putting this in a separate post because LJ has a 4k limit on comments.
alright, I’m bored…
So apparently, if I weren’t so busy shtupping everything that moves, I’d be in Limbo. 🙂
The Dante’s Inferno Test has banished you to the Second Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
| Level | Score |
|---|---|
| Purgatory (Repenting Believers) | Very High |
| Level 1 – Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers) | Low |
| Level 2 (Lustful) | Very High |
| Level 3 (Gluttonous) | Low |
| Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious) | Very Low |
| Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy) | Low |
| Level 6 – The City of Dis (Heretics) | Very Low |
| Level 7 (Violent) | Moderate |
| Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers) | Moderate |
| Level 9 – Cocytus (Treacherous) | Low |
Take the Dante’s Inferno Hell Test
…And the clock begins.
Well, I now have a final schedule: Oral defense May 20, final copy of thesis due June 4, commencement on June 15. Thesis is looking good, needing only acknowledgements, an intro and possibly a preface. (When does one need both? What should the preface contain? Hmm…)
Wow. This is starting to seem (frighteningly) real…
Here goes…
Next interview now firmly scheduled, this Thursday at 3. This one in person, with a group of people.
From now until then: Work more on thesis, study more C++ and CS theory of various sorts, mull over algorithms and techniques and why computers work the way they do. How problems are approached and dealt with.
Also: Think about idea for a major open-source project to solve problems in C++ by defining a proper foundation kit for the language. I think I know something I may wish to do over the next indeterminate time period.
Absorbing a new area of knowledge is fun. I haven’t had a chance to do this in a while.
Here we go…
assembly…
Well, I just finished the preliminary assembly of my thesis: the papers have been stapled together, the master TeX files designed and carefully tweaked to meet university standards, and so on. All that’s really left to do is to write the intro and similar stuff, and print it out nicely. Oh yes, and defend. And find a job.
But draft 1 now exists, 118 pages. The final version should be somewhat larger, maybe 130. Very short for a doctoral thesis, but those are very dense pages. Fortunately, nobody will ever have to read them.
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