Since this is a post about a non-event, and it's Friday, and even if it weren't Friday I wouldn't anticipate much action on this thread, might I be permitted a wee bit of time-sensitive blogwhoring?
Yeah, go on. I was about to use it to moan about my 7 year old's discovery of the Rubik's Cube. Which means that's all we've talked about all day, and those chants of "left squared, up squared" etc have flooded back in to fill my brain.
Tell your kid she'll never be this good and she should give up now.
Here's the deal: our little winemaking cabal has a blog which, despite its modest aspirations, is a finalist for "Best Overall Wine Blog" in the American Wine Blog Awards. Voting ends tonight. If people were to click on the link, they would find in the top post another link to the ballot. Our category is at the bottom of the page. Thanks in advance, Mineshaft!
You probably want this to be done honestly, right?
Now, when you say "no bots", are you by any chance winking significantly?
Um, I think not. But thanks for asking.
But I certainly wouldn't suggest that a person should let scruple get in the way of voting from multiple ISP addresses.
Voted. Do I get a free bottle of wine?
Thanks, CJB. When the banner ads from multinational wine conglomerates roll in, we'll have a meetup at the French Laundry. With stand mixers as favors.
Thanks, CJB. When the banner ads from multinational wine conglomerates roll in, we'll have a meetup at the French Laundry. With stand mixers as favors.
In that case I will certainly ignore my scruples and vote again when I go home for lunch.
Garbage thread, then? I'll note that yesterday's phone interview has today turned into an invitation to an onsite interview. While not a job offer, it makes me realize that whether to leave grad school might soon be a question I really have to answer. So I ask, has anyone here who left their Ph.D. behind eventually regretted doing so?
12: At the very least, I'll send a few bottles to UnfoggedyCon 2008. But you and I still have an exchange to negotiate; I'll get in touch after we bottle in April.
Garbage thread, then?
You wound me. No wine for Bisquick.
Done. Jesus, did you post this on other threads, just in case there aren't a lot of people commenting on this sad cancellation? I expect they'll want to be alone with their heartbreak.
18: Fine, "assorted important topics thread" then. I did go and vote for your blog.
19: I didn't. I wanted to be discreet about using Unfogged for my own ends.
On preview, Bisquick is redeemed.
16: I've never regretted not having been in a Ph.D. program from which to walk away. "Sir" is a better title than "Dr." anyway.
(Congratulations on getting the interview. Hope it goes well.)
i vote, but do not announce :)
it's pity, i for one was looking forward to listening to the show :(
5. I voted; does that maketh the sommelier smileth?
you and I still have an exchange to negotiate
Um, right. I forget what I was supposed to be sending you, though.
27: Peach brandy, I think. We'll figure it out.
26. Tip: If you are using a Mac, and Safari is your browser, the vote buttons don't operate. Switch to Firefox instead.
No, no, no.
B is supposed to send me the peach brandy, and you are supposed to send me the Clear Creek Douglas Fir stuff. I will then send both of you my sincere thanks.
I believe that's what we agreed on.
Ah, right. Peach brandy it is.
Ben can buy his own damn brandy.
I want Douglas Fir stuff too, after reading that New York Times article. Send it to a drop box just outside the Pennsylvania border.
29: Thanks, swampcracker and everyone.
30: Fair enough. If you can send your thanks in fermented/distilled form, even better.
I drank a bottle of wine from my office wine fridge, and then I voted.
No one has ever regretted walking away from a PhD program.
There! Answered!
33.2: 30 is NOT fair enough. I am not sending Ben brandy.
Voted and read a few posts. I likes the blog, JMcQ!
Sometimes I think I would like to sign up for a PhD program, just for the satisfaction of walking away from it
Most of the most satisfying moments of my life have been walking away from one thing or another
Today's the day our prospectives visit. So many fresh, eager faces. I just hang a photo of Tim Burke on my office door along with his advice on grad school, and that generally decides it for them.
Voted. Will make everyone else here vote when they get home.
4 - ogged, he's a he, and I will certainly show him. Have to get my own back somehow.
42: Yeah, but what would be in it for me?
A feeling of self-righteousness.
Do you really do that, Gonerill?
I can feel self-righteous without spending money on brandy for you and then schlepping my ass to your doorstep to deliver it, Ben.
In fact, doing such a thing would pretty much make me feel the opposite of self-righteous.
Your self-righteousness would come from reflecting on how much better a person than I you are.
What's the exchange rate between self-loathing and kicks in the head?
48: Like I said, I can do that without spending money and schlepping to SF.
50: I just want to make it more vivid for you.
49:
PLAYBOY: How do you get your kicks these days, then?
DYLAN: I hire people to look into my eyes, and then I have them kick me.
PLAYBOY: And that's the way you get your kicks?
DYLAN: No. Then I forgive them; that's where my kicks come in.
Do you really do that, Gonerill?
Which, the picture of Tim, or the wine fridge?
51.1: How very generous of you, Ben. Already your obvious mendacity is making me feel quite self-righteous enough, thank you anyway.
If I'm mendacious, I'm mendacious for you, baby.
Greater love hath no man than this, to blacken his soul for the sake of another.
Greater self-love hath no man than this, to blacken his soul for the sake of another. beg for free booze while insisting that so doing is somehow the ultimate self-sacrifice.
51: Now I want to kick him, too.
52: The real question is which--the statement or the picture--is doing the work on the grad students?
Lady, I have not yet begun to beg.
60: Well, when you do, let me know. I might even get an orgasm out of it.
51: I feel like an ass for asking, but is that Bob Dylan? That's a kind of great Dylan-sounding answer.
Presumably it is Bob, and I, unlike stras, like him for it.
I've always wanted to kick Bob Dylan.
I just hang a photo of Tim Burke on my office door along with his advice on grad school
Almost exactly 13 years ago, on an email discussion list, Tim Burke gave me advice on grad school. I have blamed him ever since.
64,65: I get my kicks by forgiving Bob Dylan.
I get all my forgiving Bob Dylan done out on Rt. 66.
washerdreyer, where you want this killin' done?
Abrahan,
I think you confused your roads.
Kicks are on Route 66.
Killin' , red white and blue shoe strings, world wars, etc are on Highway 61.
The photo turned out to be against EEOC rules, but here's the wine fridge.
i ordered things online, can't get it like three days
UPS leaves notices, hopefully i'll get it today
coz i told them to leave the box at the door
i like to open the boxes
70: I think you confused your roads.
It's easy to do.
HIGHWAY 61 (or What's the Freaking Key, Mesabi?)
If you ever motor from the south,
travel my way, on the Mississippi River route.
Have some fun, out on Highway 61.
It winds from New Orleans to the Thunder Bay,
more than two thousand kilos all the way.
Have some fun, out on Highway 61.
Well, goes along the levee, through Natchez, Mississippi,
Memphis, Tennessee, great blues guaranteed.
Visit old Saint Looey, Hannibal, Missouri,
Red Wing, Minnesota, don't forget Winona,
Saint Paul, gopher state, Duluth, Grand Marais.
Won't you get hip to this timely tip:
when you make that Lake Superior trip.
Have some fun, out on Highway 61.
i didn't get it again, curses
should wait one more day
Be careful sending B wine. She will fail to send you avocados.
(It had to be said, B. I'm sorry.)