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Archive for July 25th, 2007

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

Leaky-Gasps

Thanks to my performance Sunday, I ranked 382nd in the bike leg of the New Jersey State sprint tri, which makes me, as of this evening, 14th in the General Classification at the TdF. If I just sit back and stay off the decongestants I’ve got a shot at a podium spot . . .

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

Question: Who’s A…BD…forever?

By Thoreau
Answer: Guitarist Brian May from Queen. He’s finally finishing his Ph.D. in astrophysics, after 30 years.
The lesson is that no matter how bad you think your grad school experience was, there’s somebody out there who took even longer to finish. The world’s oldest university, the University of Al-Karaouine in Morocco, has [...]