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Snowflake Grumpafudamus John Wilkins is an eternal student, who thinks philosophy of biology is at least as interesting as politics or sport and twice as important. He has a PhD from the University of Melbourne and a position as a Sessional Lecturer at the University of Queensland, in Australia. After a varied career, involving factories, gardening, civil service, publishing, graphics, public relations but not, unfortunately for the CV, driving a truck, John finally completed his thesis on species concepts in 2004, which he has worked into two books.

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If your PhD was run by Windows

Category: Humor
Posted on: August 4, 2008 3:26 AM, by John S. Wilkins

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#1

System requires warm reboot. Install Coffee add-on.

Your system is missing a critical atheist upgrade! Install at once to avoid spurious results (if you can figure out what the atheist upgrade is...).

Your Internet browser has had its home page reset to www.scienceblogs.com to avoid cluelessness!

Posted by: Ian | August 4, 2008 7:17 AM

#2

I don't know that you need an atheist upgrade so long as you have the Critical Thinking Service Pack 2. But the Coffee Add-On, I don't know how anyone gets their computer working without it.

Posted by: John S. Wilkins | August 4, 2008 11:06 AM

#3

You are so mean to me.... ;-)

First thing I did was to check if my folder was still on the desktop (yes, it is, though unopened for years). So, i'll keep banging my head....

Posted by: Coturnix | August 4, 2008 9:54 PM

#4

c:/endPHD.exe /submitwhatyouhave /sayyoullreviselater

Are you sure?

|y

Two Committee Members Decline Proposal.
Program Failed.

c:endPHD.exe /rewritedissertationproposal /makeitsoundmorefinal /whine

Program Successfully Completed.
PHD received.

c:/findjobwithoutresearch.exe

File Not Found

c:/findjobwithsomeresearchbutmostlyteaching.exe

You Are Not Qualified

c:/...

c:/findPOSTDOC

Posted by: Daniel D. Brown | August 6, 2008 2:11 AM

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