Kat gets her PhD [Archive] - TONMO: The Octopus News Magazine Online

Steve O'Shea

Sep 17, '08, 2:58pm

Hi all; heads up. Tintenfisch, aka :sagrin:, also aka fellow moderator, has her oral defence today for her doctoral thesis (NZ 18 September). Wish her the best; there's 5 years of her life tied up in this.

I have a special treat lined up; we're going to play Neil Diamond for the duration!

Tintenfisch

Sep 17, '08, 3:46pm

First of all, I'm :twisted:

Second, I was doing really well with the not vomiting thing until you mentioned :no_diamond: ... alas. :yuck:

WhiteKiboko

Sep 17, '08, 3:48pm

Break a beak!

esquid

Sep 17, '08, 4:10pm

I'll keep my tentacles crossed :tentacle2:

Steve O'Shea

Sep 17, '08, 4:19pm

First of all, I'm :twisted:

I guess you've been promoted Kat (what on Earth was going through my mind) .... you get that with a PhD

:sagrin:

Tintenfisch

Sep 17, '08, 4:23pm

Didn't want to claim credentials that aren't yet mine, that's all - been trying to grow a beard for years without any luck. :cry:

tonmo

Sep 17, '08, 4:41pm

Best to you, Kat! :thumbsup:

Sep 17, '08, 5:17pm

:cheers: :beer: :band:

WhiteKiboko

Sep 17, '08, 5:23pm

Didn't want to claim credentials that aren't yet mine, that's all - been trying to grow a beard for years without any luck. :cry:

Try blackroot, it'll put hair on your chest....

sorseress

Sep 17, '08, 5:49pm

Once you have it in hand come see me and I'll feed you lefse! Luck not needed, but wished anyway.

cthulhu77

Sep 17, '08, 7:05pm

The prettiest PHD in the world !!! Congratulations !

robyn

Sep 17, '08, 8:01pm

Good luck from a recent defender! I'm sure you'll pass brilliantly, Kat.

Heather Braid

Sep 18, '08, 12:22am

Best of luck Kat!

DWhatley

Sep 18, '08, 1:35am

When do we get to celebrate?

monty

Sep 18, '08, 1:39am

It's after 5pm in Auckland, surely there's news, right? :twisted: :grad:?

WhiteKiboko

Sep 18, '08, 1:56am

If not, i still have some vacation hours left .... enough to kneecap enough people to make things good....

Sep 18, '08, 2:06am

*clickety clickety clickety*

DWhatley

Sep 18, '08, 2:17am

I think they must be drinking and ignoring our impatience

monty

Sep 18, '08, 3:52am

I'll contribute this to hold over those waiting for an update:

http://foodsafe.ucdavis.edu/html/audio/money_for_nothing.html

Sep 18, '08, 4:15am

50 ways to eat your oysters, hilarious:)

Animal Mother

Sep 18, '08, 11:33am

Congrats!

Steve O'Shea

Sep 18, '08, 3:43pm

:periscop:

..... my head hurts from a little too much :wine:

Tintenfisch

Sep 18, '08, 3:54pm

I thought it might - I'm sure the half-bottle of port didn't help either. :razz:

Well, I've just dragged myself the last few stairs up from the dungeon, oozing blood from the thousand paper cuts inflicted by four copies of my thesis, positively gushing blood from the ears thanks to extended ND exposure, yet somehow still able to hear faint cries of 'Teke-li-li!'

... I think it went fine, partially due to the fact that Dick Young and Bruce Marshall are really nice guys. :smile: Now I have to tend to several pages of editorial comments, print and bind the damn thing... but it looks like I will gradgitate in October!

corw314

Sep 18, '08, 3:57pm

Awesome!!! Congrats Kat!!!!:cheers::notworth:

robyn

Sep 18, '08, 4:01pm

Hooray! Congratulations!!

monty

Sep 18, '08, 4:39pm

:party:

I believe Steve said that all AUT theses are available for download, right? Do your rabid fans have to wait for the final edit?

baldtankman

Sep 18, '08, 4:46pm

Congratulations Kat! I hope this doesn't mean NZ is going to lose you?

M

sorseress

Sep 18, '08, 4:55pm

Congratulations Kat! I know you're glad it's over, but none of us ever had any doubts!:band::party::cheers::wine::beer: :glass: :no_diamond:

Architeuthoceras

Sep 18, '08, 5:10pm

Congratulations :grad: Kat!

esquid

Sep 18, '08, 5:38pm

congrats:glass:

Sep 18, '08, 5:56pm

YAY!!!!!

Jean

Sep 18, '08, 10:46pm

Congrats Kat.....knew you'd do it!!!!!

J

WhiteKiboko

Sep 18, '08, 10:48pm

i have to ask, what then?

Jean

Sep 18, '08, 10:50pm

Well I guess if she's like me.....looking for the elusive postdoc position!

J

DWhatley

Sep 18, '08, 11:19pm

As I recall, our new Doctor has a name change (figurative if not litteral) next on the docket :glass:

Thales

Sep 18, '08, 11:21pm

You are my hero!

Tintenfisch

Sep 19, '08, 12:19am

As I recall, our new Doctor has a name change (figurative if not litteral) next on the docket :glass:

Yes, thinking of changing to 'Dr. Sagrin'... you can ask Steve why :twisted:

Anyway, thanks, guys! Just working through all the final editorial
stuff now, and I will certainly try to make a PDF of the tome available here when there is one. It will make excellent reading for insomniacs. :roll:

erich orser

Sep 19, '08, 11:28am

Congratulations, Kat!

Never really any doubt, actually, but one helluva achievement nonetheless!

:cheers::glass::wine::party:

cthulhu77

Sep 19, '08, 12:09pm

WhooooHOOOO !!!!

Another Minnesota Doctor !

ArchyNorth

Sep 20, '08, 1:00am

Congratulations Kat!! :)

cuttlegirl

Sep 20, '08, 9:45am

:glass: Kat!

deep8

Sep 23, '08, 3:10pm

Congrats on the big acheivement. :glass:

Steve O'Shea

Sep 30, '08, 3:22am

.... she also got herself a bit of a post doc today (she must be weally weally weally cleva)

monty

Sep 30, '08, 3:52am

.... she also got herself a bit of a post doc today (she must be weally weally weally cleva)

Which bit of the postdoc was it? :thumbsup:? And is she going to preserve it with formalin?

Steve O'Shea

Sep 30, '08, 4:21am

The :diamond_trans: appreciation scholarship for excellence and secret :diamond_trans: adoration. Secretly the girl loves the man and has as many LPs as I do. That's why she's stayed for so long!

I wonder what she'll say about me when I'm gone? I hope she's colour blind, like me, because I'm sure she'll write something cutting soon enough

Infusoria

Sep 30, '08, 5:29am

[QUOTE=Steve O'Shea;125903]The :diamond_trans: appreciation scholarship for excellence and secret :diamond_trans: adoration. Secretly the girl loves the man and has as many LPs as I do. That's why she's stayed for so long!

In your dreams, and her nightmares, I dare say.

Sep 30, '08, 6:07am

:no_diamond:

'nuff said....

Tintenfisch

Oct 01, '08, 3:27pm

Iä! Iä! The eND is nigh!

Final bound copies allegedly ready for pickup this morning... woot! And yes, it looks like I will be staying on another year, partly to help with the influx of other cephy grad-students, partly to oversee a strict glove-wearing-at-all-times policy, and partly to enjoy the peace and solitude of a sound-proof office. :wink:

:no_diamond::no_diamond::no_diamond:

Steve O'Shea

Oct 01, '08, 4:10pm

I, Dr Kat Bolstad, do swear allegiance to :diamond_trans:

.... otherwise it's back to the 4th floor of D Block for you!

esquid

Oct 01, '08, 4:24pm

to oversee a strict glove-wearing-at-all-times policy

how will you be doing this? electroshock therapy? chip implant?

monty

Oct 01, '08, 5:00pm

Tintenfisch

Oct 01, '08, 5:09pm

Will have to discuss the logistics of it with Tony... file size is about 13MB. But I'll try :smile:

monty

Oct 01, '08, 5:23pm

Will have to discuss the logistics of it with Tony... file size is about 13MB. But I'll try :smile:

It's very...red.

If you email me the pdf, I can put it on wunderp.us for now and link to it. I'm not sure how to add pdfs on tonmo itself, though...

Tintenfisch

Oct 01, '08, 5:30pm

I figured that was the only kind of red/read it was ever going to be... :roll: Need to tidy up the PDF a little, but it's getting there.

cthulhu77

Oct 01, '08, 8:31pm

I bow in your awesome presence !!!!:notworth:

Jean

Oct 03, '08, 9:15pm

Will have to discuss the logistics of it with Tony... file size is about 13MB. But I'll try :smile:

Very nice! I went with burgundy, my late night writing tired eyes just couldn't deal with that shade of red when I was at the bindary (we need a bloodshot eyes smiley!).

Congrats on the post doc (if you hear any whispers of another..............?:grin:)

J

GPO87

Oct 14, '08, 12:16am

CONGATULATIONS! What an accomplishment!

Steve O'Shea

Oct 14, '08, 3:02am

The ceremony occurs in 2 days; I'll make a twit of myself and take a photo from the stage .....

DWhatley

Oct 15, '08, 1:05am

Priceless photo to be sure! Can you arrange to have the plant there (or edited in - you might also consider having her ummm, good (singing) buddy attend as well :sagrin:)

Steve O'Shea

Oct 15, '08, 5:31am

... you might also consider having her ummm, good (singing) buddy attend as well :sagrin:)

Poor Neil; there's s much chance of that as there is John Denver turning up!

It happens tomorrow; I'll be sure to post pics.

monty

Oct 15, '08, 9:54am

Does Neil do a cover of "Pomp and Circumstance"?

cthulhu77

Oct 15, '08, 10:56am

Not yet, but I bet if our resident ND fan wrote him, he might...

Oct 15, '08, 7:35pm

Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of he beast, for it is a human number: its number is Sweet Caroline

DWhatley

Oct 16, '08, 2:00am

Poor Neil; there's s much chance of that as there is John Denver turning up!

It happens tomorrow; I'll be sure to post pics.

I was actually thinking of a little photo shopping expedition :sagrin:

Tintenfisch

Oct 16, '08, 3:41pm

Hmm, this could get interesting... :goofysca:

Thanks again for all the well-wishes, everyone! I will probably be a little scarce around here for the next month or so still - some other fairly major events happening in coming weeks, but as of mid-November I'll be settling into a one-year postdoc at AUT and should be around pretty much all the time again. :wink:

baldtankman

Oct 16, '08, 3:46pm

Cool! Hope you make out this way sometime soon Kat, maybe for the opening?

bathypol

Oct 16, '08, 4:54pm

Congratulations!!

Steve O'Shea

Oct 16, '08, 7:59pm

And she looked most beautiful too!

It was very hard to photograph in that lighting, and in reducing the images the 2nd looks a little photoshopped, but it is not.

cthulhu77

Oct 16, '08, 8:21pm

*wolf whistle*

Love those northern beauties !!!!!

Congratulations again, Kat !!!! XO

DWhatley

Oct 16, '08, 9:38pm

Glad to see some of the plant relations made it :wink:.

SO .... After November with there be a regular dinner for two in NZ? Is the big day going to be in the US or NZ?

monty

Oct 16, '08, 9:40pm

:notworth: :grad: :cheers:

no picture wearing the hat??

cthulhu77

Oct 16, '08, 10:41pm

I think I like her topless.

No hat, you dirty minded folks.

Nancy

Oct 16, '08, 11:21pm

Congratulations, Kat!! Quite an accomplishment!

Nancy

Graeme

Nov 05, '08, 7:45am

Congratulations Dr Kat, all that hard work paid off!:party: :party: :party: :squidaut: :grin:

Really happy to hear about that.:smile:

(PS sorry I'm a bit late).

Phil

Nov 13, '08, 2:35pm

Sorry I'm a bit late too, but congratulations to you Dr Kat. Did you get to keep the hat?

main_board

Nov 25, '08, 1:07pm

A late but none-the-less heartfelt congratulations from all us in the great snowy North (on both occasions). We all wished we could have been there (for both occasions. Geez you really pack things in together!). Next time you're in the area stop by for a celebratory ride. Free of charge for Doctors. :wink:

Tintenfisch

Aug 10, '09, 10:06pm

Little update on the thesis: I submitted it to Zootaxa (http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/) as a monograph earlier this year and have just heard back from the editor/reviewers. Three cheers for 'accept with minor revisions'! Woot.