{"id":81,"date":"2006-09-30T15:45:59","date_gmt":"2006-09-30T23:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=81"},"modified":"2007-11-07T21:50:55","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T05:50:55","slug":"congratulations-to-rod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Rod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/photoInclude\/blogger\/1773\/482\/1600\/8sotsugyo.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em\" alt=\"Rod's graduation.\" title=\"Rod's graduation.\" align=\"right\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/rdvlivefromtokyo.blogspot.com\/\">Rod Van Meter<\/a>, famed in song and story, walked in graduation this week.  This puts the formal cap on his long quest for a Ph.D &#8211; in Quantum Computing, because he&#8217;s got to have the weirdest thing on the menu.  Rod&#8217;s a great guy and a smart one and I&#8217;m happy to see him pass another milestone (if you know what I mean and I think you do).  Now he&#8217;ll be learning how much and how little those 3 letters are worth.<\/p>\n<p>He actually earned his degree a while ago.  This post is mostly a chance for anyone who actually reads this to stare in awe at his <a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1773\/482\/1600\/8sotsugyo.jpg\">bad-ass graduation threads<\/a>.  I&#8217;m delighted to have done my own Ph.D <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.wisc.edu\/\">where I did<\/a>, but no one at Wisconsin has ever looked <em>that<\/em> cool at graduation.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also quite certain that this is the first and I presume the last time I&#8217;ll ever characterize Rod as <em>looking<\/em> cooler than anyone else.  Perhaps that&#8217;s worth all those long hours in the library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rod Van Meter, famed in song and story, walked in graduation this week. This puts the formal cap on his long quest for a Ph.D &#8211; in Quantum Computing, because he&#8217;s got to have the weirdest thing on the menu. Rod&#8217;s a great guy and a smart one and I&#8217;m happy to see him pass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}