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From : Tir: Thesis Campaign
Forum : Misc - #12231
To : all academics on the mud unlikely as youre all botting ToL
Date : Fri May 16 23:02:36 2008
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Greetings, Academics and Would-Bes,
A couple of years ago, Torasin had me proofread the early stages of his
thesis. I think it was on functional programming, or something, some ungodly,
non-Prolog language. Anyway, as way of thanks, he gave me an acknowledgement
in his thesis.
Drunk on this infinite power, last year I suggested to you, the erudite, the
(mostly) educated that there are worse people that could appear in your
Acknowledgements section - Robert Mugabe for instance - and that you might as
well acknowledge me.
I'm pleased to announce that a second person has included me in their thesis
for little/no reason what-so-ever. Korridel recently defended his
thesis in mathematics, and put me in the acknowledgements.
This might seem useless, even egomaniacal, but I shall frame it in terms of
graph theory. Anyone who has either published a paper with me, or has
included me in the acknowledgements of a thesis or other major publication,
has a Tir number of 1. Anyone who has published a paper with such a person,
or has acknowledged *them* in a thesis or other major publication, has a Tir
number of 2.
So, to enumerate the few and proud:
Tir_0
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Tir
Tir_1
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Torasin
Korridel
I will update the lists as more publications are brought to my awareness.
Yours in knowledge,
- Tir
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