And again I post my further comment here. I typed my own PhD dissertation -- the army had turned me from someone who sort of knew the keyboard into a reasonably good typist. But the school where I got my masters effectively required that you hired a school-approved professional typist. Because, of course, having every minor detail of formatting precisely correct was supremely important.
My elder brother advised me to take typing in high school, which proved to be a very practical skill. He also advised me to use a typewriter that did not have the letters marked on the keys, so I would have to learn them. Also good advice. It would have also been helpful to have learned shorthand for taking lecture notes, but I didn't. By way of partial compensation for our obligatory dues, the graduate student association at my university gave us a grant to have our theses typed--that was a common side job of the departmental secretaries. It was plenty to rent an IBM electric typewriter (I think it wasn't a Selectric, but it might have been) for the time I needed. My major professor insisted on quarterly research reports, so when the came time to write our theses, the work was largely done aside from the actual typing; we were at a considerable advantage compared to most of the graduate students, who didn't write regular reports.
My Old English prof was blown away, and I think just a touch irked, because Dad was able to get my printer to produce upper and lower case thorn, upper and lower case eth and yog. He said he always had to draw them in by hand. Didn't help my grades much, but that's another story.
Why Pardons Won’t Thwart Russia Investigation June 2, 2018 By Taegan Goddard
Former Attorney General Eric Holder told an audience in New Hampshire that even if President Trump is using his pardon power to send a signal to potential witnesses in the Mueller probe, people who are pardoned can still go before a grand jury, Axios reports.
Said Holder: “If Bob Mueller, for instance wants to take a pardoned person, put that person before a grand jury, that person no longer has the ability to say, ‘I’m going to invoke my Fifth Amendment right’ and that person then becomes a perfect witness for the special counsel.”
I love chipmunks, but my (insert multiple curse words here) lawn-obsessed neighbor killed them all. He also sicced the city on me because I had dandelions in my yard and made physical threats against me. He's almost worse than the racist neighbor I had back in the 60's in a different neighborhood. This jerk literally mows his lawn twice a week and his wife was actually out with the leaf blower blowing leaves in a snowfall. For now I put two dinner-plate sized google eyes in the window facing his tomato garden so he'll be sure to see them watching him.
puddle--note re dissertation typing on previous thread.
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And again I post my further comment here. I typed my own PhD dissertation -- the army had turned me from someone who sort of knew the keyboard into a reasonably good typist. But the school where I got my masters effectively required that you hired a school-approved professional typist. Because, of course, having every minor detail of formatting precisely correct was supremely important.
DeleteMy elder brother advised me to take typing in high school, which proved to be a very practical skill. He also advised me to use a typewriter that did not have the letters marked on the keys, so I would have to learn them. Also good advice. It would have also been helpful to have learned shorthand for taking lecture notes, but I didn't. By way of partial compensation for our obligatory dues, the graduate student association at my university gave us a grant to have our theses typed--that was a common side job of the departmental secretaries. It was plenty to rent an IBM electric typewriter (I think it wasn't a Selectric, but it might have been) for the time I needed. My major professor insisted on quarterly research reports, so when the came time to write our theses, the work was largely done aside from the actual typing; we were at a considerable advantage compared to most of the graduate students, who didn't write regular reports.
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I had an older sociology professor who used to give me "A" just because I justified both margins. Seriously.
DeleteMy Old English prof was blown away, and I think just a touch irked, because Dad was able to get my printer to produce upper and lower case thorn, upper and lower case eth and yog. He said he always had to draw them in by hand. Didn't help my grades much, but that's another story.
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Former Attorney General Eric Holder told an audience in New Hampshire that even if President Trump is using his pardon power to send a signal to potential witnesses in the Mueller probe, people who are pardoned can still go before a grand jury, Axios reports.
Said Holder: “If Bob Mueller, for instance wants to take a pardoned person, put that person before a grand jury, that person no longer has the ability to say, ‘I’m going to invoke my Fifth Amendment right’ and that person then becomes a perfect witness for the special counsel.”
--Alan
Typical Trump. Not merely SNAFU, FUBAR.
DeleteI love chipmunks, but my (insert multiple curse words here) lawn-obsessed neighbor killed them all. He also sicced the city on me because I had dandelions in my yard and made physical threats against me. He's almost worse than the racist neighbor I had back in the 60's in a different neighborhood. This jerk literally mows his lawn twice a week and his wife was actually out with the leaf blower blowing leaves in a snowfall. For now I put two dinner-plate sized google eyes in the window facing his tomato garden so he'll be sure to see them watching him.
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