Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
One can only ask, what are you going to do when you grow up?
growing up leads to growing old, and then to dying,
and dying to me doesn’t sound like all that much fun.
JM
Just make sure that your adversary contract doesn’t get flushed when the DoD gets whacked by an additional 800 billion over the next 10.
Oh Sure, bring the party down with your logic. Thanks a lot G-man! (I Keed!, I Keed!)
A little off the PhD topic, but I have been sending my daughter posts on The Heritage Foundation and The Center for New American Security websites. I’d say things like, “Look at this, this woman is writing a paper on the future of the Navy, or Foreign Relations in the Middle East. You could do that.” After several of these posts I got back an e-mail saying, “Doing a lot of research and writing a paper for a living? Sounds like High School English class. Uggh, I don’t think so.”
Guess I got put in my place.
Speaking of advanced degrees, I was looking at the credentials of the Superintendent of the Boise School District. His Bachelor’s degree is in History and Elementary Education, and his PhD is in Education. But that’s not what caught my eye. He got his Masters Degree in “Reading.” Who knew there was such a thing. I’m a darn good reader. I could do that.
Heh!
If it is history, then yup, a PhD is the world’s longest research paper and your entire four-to-nine years of work boils down to a three hour oral exam over that monster. BTDT. In the sciences you actually get to play with chemicals and rocks and stuff. Poli Sci is all statistics these days and a relative of mine got a doctorate in music by giving a lecture recital and writing a twenty-page report. And taking a LOT of classes and teaching and giving a LOT of recitals. Don’t get me started on the Doctor of Ed degrees . . .
Rule of thumb – if you don’t love, really love, research and writing and you don’t absolutely have to have the degree, don’t get a PhD.
Lex, you can keep us all posted on the theory: “Age and cunning will beat youth and brashness in the fighter world.”
Heck, you might use that for a Piled Higher and Deeper thesis.
We Ijuneers have to think for a living. It ain’t all it’s cracked up to be. I’d rather fritter my life away like Lex.
Lex, can you still see out over the top of your boots without standing tippy-toe?
The boots still fit just fine. It’s the g-suit I’m a little worried about…
So getting short doesn’t have the same effect on fighter pilots that it does on infantry?
Lex is already out, so he can’t be a short timer, except where he’s already given notice.
Go to http://www.mercola.com and search for “Peak 8.” It was working for me, until I hurt my back using an upright stationary bike back in May. Peak 8 takes just 20 minutes and works quickly to get your girlish figure back.
“I satisfy myself with the notion that, having carelessly spent my youth flying fighters, I have every intention of spending my waning years flying fighters.”
Here, Here! Great line…
Greetings:
I spent much of my work-life in the printing industry. One day, a gentleman brought in a business card that he wanted us to print. The interesting part was that his name was followed by “P.H.D.” without the quotation marks. It was my initiation to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”.
One of the other IT geeks I know, who’s job is to mainly get certifications from Microsoft, Cisco, and others so the company can save all sorts of money having him do the service in-house, passed me a new business card.
Of course, after MCSE and CCNE and yadda yadda yadda was HMFWIC. He was grinning like a cheshire cat, having gotten that past the Powers That Be.
In a previous job where there was no room for promotion and really no budget for raises, given we were all of seven employees, I was once given the title of “Senior Network Engineer, Protector of the Packets and Defender of the Realm” as a job title.
I’ve often wished I’d had a coat-of-arms made up and placed on my office door for that.
– Max