From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QQP0m-0003U3-BL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 28 May 2011 19:17:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C7DE11C089; Sat, 28 May 2011 19:15:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 776011C089 for ; Sat, 28 May 2011 19:15:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyi11 with SMTP id 11so2631117wyi.40 for ; Sat, 28 May 2011 12:15:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=z5z0UKgmsq2+oEZtvQMkB7OFGgeORd5CSxzqS+0Yp3Q=; b=oRULXQYqClcsS7JPGN1lbR/xgU94lUBzHR9Bq8c8j7VBof/zeEGcjNVHhb0yIA6BTR DrSRbvvYxow7EIIcyKg4oGepKEPzwaI1263JbM+R1gpvsfB+G6pMpP25CBsl/K+6Pvis ASuQlWQ7HFgaC3dO3DTFVcmxJWpYpO/pN/4AM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=uRuPSnTOaIrJk9mHLIydddKeZ+lgkOJsFvq0IFYreq0EL4/sPnMLBlNlWjDHk2Tt06 dXiFlKa4SU9P0gd3GbK8tK546h2gIgRNXlWzfQ/Sa1+SIs5sWt3vXjRqyyVG+n+aEOHq h1CwhwNsej6qX/SBdD9wOV1nMF4gk861ce4mk= Received: by 10.227.60.143 with SMTP id p15mr3450564wbh.37.1306610114573; Sat, 28 May 2011 12:15:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-114-244.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.114.244]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ej7sm2007855wbb.19.2011.05.28.12.15.12 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 28 May 2011 12:15:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Goodbye, Gentoo Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 21:14:25 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.39-ck; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) Cc: "Kevin O'Gorman" References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201105282114.26209.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 1bebfc8aa7784474549c1549133e3c1a Apparently, though unproven, at 15:50 on Saturday 28 May 2011, Kevin O'Gorman did opine thusly: > On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 5:59 PM, walt wrote: > > On 05/26/2011 04:28 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > Now, a couple of months into my retirement > > > > ... > > > > > in 2002 when I finished my PHD > > > > Retiring 9 years after finishing your education? > > Nice to know that somebody can do the math :o). > I got a late start. I was 52 (IIRR) when I started grad school and 59 when > I finished my PhD. That's excellent news. I've wanted to go back and get a PhD in math for ... well it feels like for ages. Now I can put off starting for 7 more years and still stay within the bounds of "what has already been done at least once" :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com