XKCD Is Awesome

[damigella]

 There's nothing whatsoever I can add to this. Except that Emmy Noether is one of my personal heroes.

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[leakey-lover.livejournal.com]

It goes on and on.

I did it as hard as I could as long as I could. Coulda been a contendah, though. That's all we get.

Except I'll be outta here soon, too. We live in a world where money is far far more important than people or maybe anything.

[damigella-314.livejournal.com]

"Except I'll be outta here soon, too."
Hope you'll get to do something you enjoy. The advantage of mathematics as compared to the other sciences is that you get tenured very early, so you can be burned out and still earn your keep. But I Don't Want To. Damn.

Good thing about this post is that it steamed the scientists out of the woodwork :-)

[leakey-lover.livejournal.com]

Good thing about this post is that it steamed the scientists out of the woodwork :-)

Nice to be temporarily numbered among youse!

Do you have a job?

No, I was only an artist and paid for it editing medical stuff. Only that ran out too.

[damigella-314.livejournal.com]

"Do you have a job?"
Of course! Universities have this awesome invention called "tenure". In the US it means they can't kick you out unless they close down the Department. In most of Europe it means they can't kick you out. In the UK it means nothing because they elected Thatcher :).

Anyway, I'm a professor of mathematics in an Italian university. The pay is low but the job security is comforting. And I get to teach about Emmy Noether's work every year, which is amazing.

I'm awed by artists, of any kind. Arts usually require the use of one's hands, and I'm the clumsiest person ever.