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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Frantic Remote Control Button Pushing

Larry King interviewing Ben Stein. I couldn't change the channel fast enough.

    Posted by Mark Thoma on Wednesday, September 29, 2010 at 12:16 AM in Television | Stumble, Digg, del.icio.us, Reddit, Tweet, Share, Like | Permalink  TrackBack (0)  Comments (1)



    Saturday, September 25, 2010

    The Purpose of a Dissertation Defense

    The real purpose of a Ph.D. dissertation defense is to ensure that three people will actually read it.

      Posted by Mark Thoma on Saturday, September 25, 2010 at 03:12 PM in School | Stumble, Digg, del.icio.us, Reddit, Tweet, Share, Like | Permalink  TrackBack (0)  Comments (2)



      Thursday, September 16, 2010

      Email Repellent

      When someone gets angry about something on the blog and begins sending me email after email, hitting reply and writing the following in the subject works way better than I would have guessed:

      Notice: This email address has been blocked - email was not delivered to addressee

      I had to do it a second time in one case, but every other time once was enough.

        Posted by Mark Thoma on Thursday, September 16, 2010 at 07:35 PM in Weblogs | Stumble, Digg, del.icio.us, Reddit, Tweet, Share, Like | Permalink  TrackBack (0)  Comments (1)