If you go to my myspace page, you will discover that I am a 56-year-old man. E (who is still staying with me) and I are doing an experiment to see how myspace.com decides what advertisements you get on your page when you log in (well, E is doing the experiment, and I'm just sort of letting him use my profile). Last night we changed me to a 23-year-old male (same as E), and this morning my ads were different. Instead of Victoria's Secret and laser skin treatments, I was getting "Win a free XBox" and ads for a dating website featuring a hot chick. So now I'm posing as a creepy old man to see if I get Cialis ads.
Yes, E and I have spent too much time in this little apartment working on our theses. The revisions are due today, but I'm basically done except for maybe a sentence or two at the end and another quick read-through. And God bless my friend C, who came over yesterday and made me work on the Macro problem set, because we managed to finish it (after spending literally two hours trying to figure out how to solve one problem that essentially involved algebraic manipulation to get one thing to look like something else), and now I don't have to worry about it anymore.
DWE was supposed to be back today, but he apparently has some urgent business in D.C. and then NYC. He was also supposed to come to my thesis defense on Thursday, and he said (during a phone call from Reykjavik) that he still will, but it sounds like it would involve him flying from D.C. to SF for basically one day, and then heading right back out to the east coast, which is ridiculous. I really appreciate his desire to be there like he said he would be, but I don't think I can let him fly around unnecessarily like that.
Okay, I'm supposed to be reading H's thesis for him (it's also due today--same advisor) so I better get back to work.
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In case I forget on Wednesday evening, I wanted to wish you luck on your defense! And further luck dealing with the celebratory hangover on Friday...
Yes - good luck on your thesis defense. I'm sure you'll do really well! Just make sure you save the celebratory drinking until *after* the defense! ;)
i had to delete my myspace page because clients were finding me. i have actually been thinking about re-signing-up under the name "otis" with a picture of (duh) otis. i wonder a) if they would let me do that (otis is 1 year old, and don't you have to be 14? even in dog years he's only 7!) and b) if i'd get dog food ads? :)
Well..... how did it go???? I hope you knocked their economic socks off!
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I second Rebel's emotion! Once the celebratory hangover wears off, you must provide an overwrought account of the gory details! Embellish when necessary...
Well, I think with the fast pace of technology today, you can do anything possible on the internet. And I think researching and doing you thesis thru the internet is a good idea. Having help with thesis writing thru the innovation of social media platform can make a difference. Anyway, what was the result of your experiment? Did you already finished your thesis paper?
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