{"id":3397,"date":"2023-05-09T17:31:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T21:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=3397"},"modified":"2023-05-09T17:31:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T21:31:56","slug":"re-thesis-defense-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2023\/05\/re-thesis-defense-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;re: Thesis defense issue\u2026&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I loved this story, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/archiveofourown.org\/works\/28299630\">RE: Thesis defense issue &#8211; kalirush<\/a> &#x1f40d;&#8221; \u2014and only later learned that it was a riff on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/articles\/faq-the-snake-fight-portion-of-your-thesis-defense\">an old <em>McSweeney\u2019s<\/em> piece<\/a> that, yeah, is fun but suffers from the baked-in McSweeney&#8217;s problem (i.e., that it &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/achewood.com\/2003\/06\/30\/title.html\">approaches humor with a lab coat and tweezers<\/a>.&#8221;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, this amateur fan-fic riff is better, because it is actually funny, not just theoretically funny and basically funny shaped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">[the image above is an <a href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/1403\/\">XKCD comic<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I loved this story, &#8220;RE: Thesis defense issue &#8211; kalirush &#x1f40d;&#8221; \u2014and only later learned that it was a riff on an old McSweeney\u2019s piece that, yeah, is fun but suffers from the baked-in McSweeney&#8217;s problem (i.e., that it &#8220;approaches humor with a lab coat and tweezers.&#8221;) Anyway, this amateur fan-fic riff is better, because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2023\/05\/re-thesis-defense-issue\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;re: Thesis defense issue\u2026&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[153],"tags":[902,46,122,572,872,901,900],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/a2mi.social\/@dave0\/110340860466855878","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3400,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397\/revisions\/3400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}