<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146</id><updated>2011-09-28T11:15:11.052-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Life After Ph.D.</title><subtitle type='html'>Yet another webcomic...

Updates every Sunday, Wednesday, Friday.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>65</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-2176116092061434144</id><published>2010-12-31T15:12:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2010-12-31T15:15:19.816-06:00</updated><title type='text'>S2F: Out-Of-This-World Party Dome.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/Season2-f1.jpg" width="863" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/Season2-f2.jpg" width="863" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/Season2-f3.jpg" width="863" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happy New Year!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't forget to Retweet, share, and spread the love for &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Life After Ph.D.&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♥ds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-2176116092061434144?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/12/s2f-out-of-this-world-party-dome.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/2176116092061434144'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/2176116092061434144'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/12/s2f-out-of-this-world-party-dome.html' title='S2F: Out-Of-This-World Party Dome.'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-1090407173159150715</id><published>2010-10-11T23:05:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-10-11T23:08:32.251-05:00</updated><title type='text'>S2E: Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/Season2-e1.jpg" width="863" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/Season2-e2.jpg" width="863" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/Season2-e3.jpg" width="863" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/Season2-e4.jpg" width="863" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yeah... I've been lagging.  Sorry about that.  I really have been honestly busy!  Tranarchy!, Popular Linguistics, new job, Texas English Project... I've got crap to do from here til next decade.  Still, no excuse is a good excuse... I'll do better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't forget to Retweet, share, and spread the love for &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Life After Ph.D.&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♥ds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-1090407173159150715?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/10/s2e-roads-where-were-going-we-dont-need.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/1090407173159150715'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/1090407173159150715'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/10/s2e-roads-where-were-going-we-dont-need.html' title='S2E: Roads? Where we&apos;re going, we don&apos;t need roads.'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-4069815093325128789</id><published>2010-09-18T22:54:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-09-18T22:58:46.658-05:00</updated><title type='text'>S2D: Land of Lincoln</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/S2-d1.jpg" width="863" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Haha!  Love that joke.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't forget to Retweet, share, and spread the love for &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Life After Ph.D.&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♥ds&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-4069815093325128789?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/09/s2d-land-of-lincoln.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/4069815093325128789'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/4069815093325128789'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/09/s2d-land-of-lincoln.html' title='S2D: Land of Lincoln'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-3387804918221435495</id><published>2010-09-14T01:12:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-09-14T01:13:23.671-05:00</updated><title type='text'>S2C: Self-time.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/Season2-c1.jpg" width="863" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/Season2-c2.jpg" width="863" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ah, yes... the "mement" or "mo-me".  We all need them sometimes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't forget to Retweet, share, and spread the love for &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Life After Ph.D.&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♥ds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-3387804918221435495?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/09/s2c-self-time.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/3387804918221435495'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/3387804918221435495'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/09/s2c-self-time.html' title='S2C: Self-time.'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-3195436366152519498</id><published>2010-08-29T23:51:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2010-09-14T01:12:19.093-05:00</updated><title type='text'>S2B: Magic Moments</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/Season2-b1.jpg" width="863" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/Season2-b2.jpg" width="863" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/Season2-b3.jpg" width="863" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/Season2-b4.jpg" width="863" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/Season2-b5.jpg" width="863" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/Season2-b6.jpg" width="863" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;True story.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't forget to Retweet, share, and spread the love for &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Life After Ph.D.&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♥ds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-3195436366152519498?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/08/s2b-magic-moments.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/3195436366152519498'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/3195436366152519498'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/08/s2b-magic-moments.html' title='S2B: Magic Moments'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-7515908018672682752</id><published>2010-08-24T01:35:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2010-08-24T01:43:12.563-05:00</updated><title type='text'>S2A: Summer's Over—ACK!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/Season2-a1.jpg" width="863" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/Season2-a2.jpg" width="863" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't forget to Retweet, share, and spread the love for &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Life After Ph.D.&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Welcome to Season Two of &lt;em&gt;Life After Ph.D. &amp;ndash; Yet Another Webcomic&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y'know, I know it's unpopular, but I've always really loved "Cathy" comics.  The &lt;a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=11380309" target="_blank"&gt;news that Cathy was calling it quits&lt;/a&gt; really bummed me out.  Cathy Guisewite... I'll miss you.  It's not just manic females that suffer from body image problems, an inability to communicate with men, and chocoholism.  Consider this my tribute.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Season Two of LAPhD will publish twice weekly, Monday/Tuesday and Thursday/Friday.  Mark your calendars!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♥ds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-7515908018672682752?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/08/s2a-summers-overack.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/7515908018672682752'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/7515908018672682752'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/08/s2a-summers-overack.html' title='S2A: Summer&apos;s Over—ACK!'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-81733495982969905</id><published>2010-07-16T12:04:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2010-07-16T12:22:22.986-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Fifty-Eight: Take the two shots, or send her out?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/58-b.jpg" width="863" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't forget to Retweet, share, and spread the love for &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Life After Ph.D.&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember the first time you learned that Bart Simpson's pointy head was actually hair?  It was an episode where they went to church, I'm sure (probably the episode where he spends the car ride home saying 'Hell').  Yeah.  Same is true for Mr. Arrow.  Turns out that his arrow-point head is actually his hair, and he's letting it get wild for summer.  He's also wearing a Hawaiian shirt, in honor of the suburban summer traditions of his youth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dr. Rectangle, meanwhile, is playing croquet.  He's red.  He's ALWAYS red.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But anyway... 58 issues in 5ish months.  Not bad, not bad at all.  For real, though, please tune back in on August 23rd for the second season of &lt;em&gt;Life After Ph.D.&lt;/em&gt;  Some highlights of the new season include: The Humanatees; King Jojoba meets Chief Awapuhi; Mayor McCheese's Special Sauce; and a whole new round of characters!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See you in August!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♥ds&lt;br /&gt;PS&gt;&gt;&gt; I need your photos! Help me by contributing background images to LAPhD!  Empty background/landscape shots are best, but really any shot taken from about four feet above the ground is good.  So get on your knees, snap some shots, and &lt;a href="mailto:apophenia2009@gmail.com"&gt;e-mail them to me&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-81733495982969905?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/07/dont-forget-to-retweet-share-and-spread.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/81733495982969905'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/81733495982969905'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/07/dont-forget-to-retweet-share-and-spread.html' title='Fifty-Eight: Take the two shots, or send her out?'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-1095373696532595438</id><published>2010-07-07T10:47:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2010-07-07T14:47:56.174-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Fifty-Seven: Judge Not, Lest Pee Be Judged</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/57.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't forget to Retweet, share, and spread the love for &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Life After Ph.D.&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ripped from the pages of real life!  No, for real, I stepped in something wet last night and then *very carefully* took off my socks without looking at them because I didn't want to know if the wetness was yellow or not.  They dried on the back of a chair, and then I put them back on to go out.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My dryer is broken, so I have no clean socks, nor any way to dry wet socks other than by 'hanging them up'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't judge me.  If you own pets then there's *no way* you haven't done--or at least thought of doing--the same thing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♥ds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-1095373696532595438?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/07/fifty-seven-judge-not-lest-pee-be.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/1095373696532595438'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/1095373696532595438'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/07/fifty-seven-judge-not-lest-pee-be.html' title='Fifty-Seven: Judge Not, Lest Pee Be Judged'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-1426888569301019450</id><published>2010-07-04T14:02:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2010-07-05T09:48:37.522-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Fifty-Six: Intellectualsim.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/56-1.jpg" width="863" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/56-2.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't forget to Retweet, share, and spread the love for &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Life After Ph.D.&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My sister, who was a Classics major (who was also a Spanish major; dual degree, not double major), told me a joke about Phoenicians once.  I don't remember it exactly, but it was hilarious and way dorky.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For anyone keeping score, the (lightening bolt) "Bolt" character is Hispanic, hence the "jaja", and Mr. Arrow's shirt is the cleverest typography-nerd joke I have ever seen in my life (sadly, not my joke, but the originator has been lost to the sands of the internet).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other news, my update schedule has been thrown for a loop with this new job.  I'd been trying to keep to my thrice-weekly schedule, but it looks like that just isn't going to work out.  I'm officially going to have to go to twice-weekly, with no specific days for when the updates happen.  Sorry for the indeterminacy, but I do have to make money, afterall.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♥ds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-1426888569301019450?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/07/fifty-six-intellectualsim.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/1426888569301019450'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/1426888569301019450'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/07/fifty-six-intellectualsim.html' title='Fifty-Six: Intellectualsim.'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-4484989341433822022</id><published>2010-06-26T01:19:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2010-06-26T01:20:53.594-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Fifty-Five: Ciao!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/55-1.jpg" width="863" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/55-2.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't forget to Retweet, share, and spread the love for &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Life After Ph.D.&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I got an awesome new job.  My old job can shove it; I got an AWESOME NEW JOB!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yay, me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♥ds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-4484989341433822022?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/06/fifty-five-ciao.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/4484989341433822022'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/4484989341433822022'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/06/fifty-five-ciao.html' title='Fifty-Five: Ciao!'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-1207957164877283771</id><published>2010-06-24T01:48:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2010-06-24T01:55:59.151-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Fifty-Four: Telephone, a Gaga Tribute</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="873" height="525"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/i03yR1FHKuQ&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00&amp;border=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/i03yR1FHKuQ&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="873" height="525"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't forget to Retweet, share, and spread the love for &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Life After Ph.D.&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Significant Lover has been singing "Telephone" non-stop for two weeks.  I had to do something about it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you haven't seen the Lady Gaga &amp; Beyoncé video for &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVBsypHzF3U" target="_blank"&gt;"Telephone"&lt;/a&gt; this might not make any sense to you.  If you have seen it, I hope you enjoyed the LAPhD take on it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♥ds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-1207957164877283771?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/06/fifty-four-telephone-gaga-tribute.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/1207957164877283771'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/1207957164877283771'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/06/fifty-four-telephone-gaga-tribute.html' title='Fifty-Four: Telephone, a Gaga Tribute'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-4735040434104141690</id><published>2010-06-16T20:59:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2010-06-16T21:49:41.871-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Fifty-Three: Interruptus</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/53-1.jpg" width="863" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/53-2.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't forget to Retweet, share, and spread the love for &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Life After Ph.D.&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today's comic may or may not be directly related to this week's Boilerplate 3.0 post, "&lt;a href="http://dsbigham.net/blog/2010-06-15_notes-from-under-the-ground/" target="_blank"&gt;Notes from under the ground&lt;/a&gt;".  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nah, it isn't.  It is, however, symbolic of the many pies I currently have my fingers in.  For example, I reopened my &lt;a href="http://capn002.livejournal.com/" target="_blank"&gt;LiveJournal&lt;/a&gt; account for some diary-style blogging not appropriate for the more journalistic &lt;a href="http://dsbigham.net/blog/" target="_blank"&gt;Boilerplate 3.0&lt;/a&gt;.  But that's just the start of it.  Additionally, not only is there &lt;em&gt;Boilerplate 3.0 - The Blog!&lt;/em&gt;, but this week will also see the launch of &lt;a href="http://boilerplatemedia.wordpress.com" target="_blank"&gt;Boilerplate Media&lt;/a&gt; (aka BPM), the promotions/marketing company I'm starting, which, in addition to providing me with real freelance work, also functions as the umbrella for my various other media projects, including &lt;a href="http://the9online.net" target="_blank"&gt;The 9&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.popularlinguisticsonline.org" target="_blank"&gt;Popular Linguistics Online&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com" target="_blank"&gt;Life After Ph.D.&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://chaosryan.wordpress.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Apophenia of Modernity&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.  AND, on top of all that, I'm still trying to be an academic and get the website for the &lt;a href="http://texasenglish.org/" target="_blank"&gt;Texas English Project&lt;/a&gt; running smoothly before the end of August.  Whew!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I decided to be &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_Woman" target="_blank"&gt;awesome&lt;/a&gt; this month.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also: Yes, those are vuvuzela.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♥ds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-4735040434104141690?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/06/fifty-three-interruptus.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/4735040434104141690'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/4735040434104141690'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/06/fifty-three-interruptus.html' title='Fifty-Three: Interruptus'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-1982205124092811144</id><published>2010-06-13T16:47:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-06-13T16:52:47.897-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Fifty-Two: Like sands through the hourglass...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/52-1.jpg" width="863" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/52-2.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't forget to Retweet, share, and spread the love for &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Life After Ph.D.&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Prince of Persia&lt;/em&gt; was a really REALLY bad movie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, Significant Lover really does have a large knife/dagger collection.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That is all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♥ds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-1982205124092811144?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/06/fifty-two-like-sands-through-hourglass.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/1982205124092811144'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/1982205124092811144'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/06/fifty-two-like-sands-through-hourglass.html' title='Fifty-Two: Like sands through the hourglass...'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-2739936733334157883</id><published>2010-06-11T21:24:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2010-06-11T21:41:18.826-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Fifty-One: Lovesong</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/51-1.jpg" width="864" height="480" title="Dr. Rectangle is wearing a jockstrap under those shorts." /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/51-2.jpg" width="864" height="480" title="Seriously, Google Analytics Map? Light green on a light blue background?" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/51-3.jpg" width="864" height="480" title="mmm... pie charts..." /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/51-4.jpg" width="864" height="480" title="They're naked behind that Dune Grass crosshatching.  They had sex a little.  Y'know, before moving on to the last panel." /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/51-5.jpg" width="864" height="480" title="P.S. Randall, if you're ever in Austin... well, let's just say that Significant Lover and I have an 'understanding' about some things..." /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't forget to Retweet, share, and spread the love for &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Life After Ph.D.&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Absolutely any Sunday-Funnies-style webcomic around today owes a huge debt of gratitude to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Munroe" target="_blank"&gt;Randall Munroe&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.xkcd.com/" target="_blank"&gt;xkcd&lt;/a&gt;.  Thank you, Mr. Munroe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, though xkcd will always be my first love, it's not what got me into webcomic-ing.  That honor goes to (a suggestion by my friend, &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/ali.rex" target="_blank"&gt;Ali Rex&lt;/a&gt;, and) &lt;a href="http://hijinksensue.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Hijinks Ensue&lt;/a&gt;.  You're tribute is coming, HE, I promise!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♥ds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-2739936733334157883?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/06/fifty-one-lovesong.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/2739936733334157883'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/2739936733334157883'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/06/fifty-one-lovesong.html' title='Fifty-One: Lovesong'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-3804230484895328484</id><published>2010-06-09T15:47:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2010-06-09T16:03:51.778-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Fifty: Tooth Truth.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/50-1.jpg" width="863" height="863" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/50-2.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't forget to Retweet, share, and spread the love for &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Life After Ph.D.&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For those of you who don't know, this past weekend I got my tooth broken.  Not "chipped" as some people have been saying, but 1/4-of-my-tooth-got-knocked-out *broken*.  I have been made ugly.  Le sigh...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are two possible versions of the story of how I lost my tooth.  One involves my valiant fight against &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6A8mdaZPsU#t=01m48s" target="blank"&gt;Nazi Werewolves&lt;/a&gt;, one involves an over-excited Significant Lover at the &lt;a href="http://queerbomb.org/" target="_blank"&gt;QueerBomb Party&lt;/a&gt;.  Which is real and which is imaginary?  You be the judge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♥ds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/laphdlinkbanner.jpg" width="400" height="100" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Copy this code to your page if you want to link to LAPhD with the mini-banner!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&amp;lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/laphdlinkbanner.jpg" width="400" height="100" /&amp;gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-3804230484895328484?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/06/fifty-tooth-truth.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/3804230484895328484'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/3804230484895328484'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/06/fifty-tooth-truth.html' title='Fifty: Tooth Truth.'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-4184308693468104230</id><published>2010-06-04T18:13:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2010-06-04T18:29:35.982-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Forty-Nine.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/49-b.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div  style="width: 840px; text-align: justify; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;font-size:14pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't forget to Retweet, share, and spread the love for &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Life After Ph.D.&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yeah, yeah, yeah.  This comic isn't very funny.  Well, there are two reasons for that.  (a, the political reason) A 10% chunk of the population being denied basic rights isn't very funny, and&lt;br /&gt;(b, the real reason) There was originally a six-panel &lt;a href="http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A1037393" target="_blank"&gt;Austin Pride hilarity&lt;/a&gt; that came before this, and this 'soap box comic' was just tacked on at the end, but because I'm an idiot, I didn't save any of my six-panel hilarity in the process of making it, and then my Photoshop crashed and I lost everything—ALL FOUR HOURS OF WORK, GONE.  It was a really, really, REALLY upsetting moment.  Here's what the world will never get:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Austin Pride Chairman &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/chadpeevy" target="_blank"&gt;Chad Peevy&lt;/a&gt; as Emperor Palpatine; Non-Profit Ewoks; Sacrificial Ponies; Gay Storm Troopers; Sandra Bernhard as C3PO; a &lt;a href="http://www.peevymedia.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Peevy Media&lt;/a&gt; Deathstar; Austin &lt;a href="http://queerbomb.org/" target="_blank"&gt;QueerBomb&lt;/a&gt; organizer &lt;a href="http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A1037301" target="_blank"&gt;Silky Shoemaker&lt;/a&gt; as She-Ra; She-Ra's trusty steed, Swiftwind; dancing; rainbow star explosions.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So pissed at Photoshop right now...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♥ds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/laphdlinkbanner.jpg" width="400" height="100" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Copy this code to your page if you want to link to LAPhD with the mini-banner!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&amp;lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/laphdlinkbanner.jpg" width="400" height="100" /&amp;gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-4184308693468104230?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/06/forty-nine.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/4184308693468104230'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/4184308693468104230'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/06/forty-nine.html' title='Forty-Nine.'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-8350313771428482926</id><published>2010-05-28T13:07:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-05-28T13:24:38.577-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Forty-Eight: The Party's Over.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/48-1.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/48-2.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/48-3.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't forget to Retweet, share, and spread the love for &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Life After Ph.D.&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the record, Significant Lover's Mother has never drunkenly hit on me at a party.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I miss Myspace.  I want to leave facebook, but I know it's not possible.  Not because I'm addicted, but because not having facebook would be like not having a phone in your room in high school in 1995.  It wouldn't be absolute social ostracization, but it would be embarrassing.  As far as connecting to people in the modern world, there's just NO OTHER OPTION.  This unfortunate fact is, at least tangentially, related to the &lt;a href="http://dsbigham.net/blog/2010-05-28_singular-now/" target="_blank"&gt;"Singular Now" post&lt;/a&gt; on Boilerplate 3.0.  You should check it out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♥ds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/laphdlinkbanner.jpg" width="400" height="100" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Copy this code to your page if you want to link to LAPhD with the mini-banner!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&amp;lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/laphdlinkbanner.jpg" width="400" height="100" /&amp;gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-8350313771428482926?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/05/forty-eight-partys-over.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/8350313771428482926'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/8350313771428482926'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/05/forty-eight-partys-over.html' title='Forty-Eight: The Party&apos;s Over.'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-1815073054627487274</id><published>2010-05-26T18:48:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2010-05-26T18:53:59.056-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Forty-Seven: Cute shoes, at least.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/47.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't forget to Retweet, share, and spread the love for &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Life After Ph.D.&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, while the Life After Ph.D. characters are not *direct* representations of me, my Significant Lover, and my friends, they're usually pretty close to reality.  Anyone who knows me knows how likely I am to have done exactly this.  A few of you may even have stories...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, for the record, this did not just happen.  Did not happen, just last weekend.  Not at all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♥ds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/laphdlinkbanner.jpg" width="400" height="100" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-1815073054627487274?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/05/forty-seven-cute-shoes-at-least.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/1815073054627487274'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/1815073054627487274'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/05/forty-seven-cute-shoes-at-least.html' title='Forty-Seven: Cute shoes, at least.'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-7491815532692079120</id><published>2010-05-22T11:38:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-05-22T12:40:10.100-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Forty-Six: Dominate me, Pac-Man.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/46-1.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/46-2.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/46-3.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/46-4.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/46-5.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/46-6.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't forget to Retweet, share, and spread the love for &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Life After Ph.D.&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pac-Man turned 30th yesterday!  I can't believe I'm almost as old as Pac-Man!  hehe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For me, Pac-Man is always shaded with an awkward, semi-borrowed nostalgia because while most people think of &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stl_PR5VGCI&amp;NR=1" target="_blank"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; when they think of Pac-Man, I think of &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL2p2ANFlQ4" target="_blank"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;.  You see, the podunk town I grew up in didn't have an arcade, so I didn't ever interact with the arcade version of games.  The closest I got to an arcade, in fact, was the &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/images?q=ms%20pac-man%20cocktail%20table&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;source=og&amp;sa=N&amp;hl=en&amp;tab=wi" target="_blank"&gt;Ms. Pac-Man cocktail table&lt;/a&gt; at the Pizza Hut one town south-east of us. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le sigh...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No, friends, the Pac-Man I loved was an Atari 2600 port.  Watch a commercial for it &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juH2qHYX9aI" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XndbMhPohO4&amp;feature=related" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;; learn about it (and all things Atari) &lt;a href="http://www.atariage.com/software_page.html?SoftwareLabelID=342" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wanna play some Atari on your computer?  Here's a great &lt;a href="http://www.thebeehive.ws/" target="_blank"&gt;emulator&lt;/a&gt; (though, without the black-orange-red joystick, it's slightly less fun).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other news...&lt;br /&gt;Those sparkly blue stars on Mr. Arrow in the fifth panel are bits of gaybar dance-glitter.  You cannot *not* come home covered in glitter if you've gone dancing at the gaybar. [Side Note: It's been said that glitter is the herpes of the craft world, but here in Austin where &lt;a href="http://www.renegadecraft.com/austin" target="_blank"&gt;crafting is a DIY-punk love-in way of life&lt;/a&gt;; the herpes of the craft world is actual herpes.]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♥ds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/laphdlinkbanner.jpg" width="400" height="100" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-7491815532692079120?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/05/forty-six-dominate-me-pac-man.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/7491815532692079120'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/7491815532692079120'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/05/forty-six-dominate-me-pac-man.html' title='Forty-Six: Dominate me, Pac-Man.'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-5184038885601277962</id><published>2010-05-20T10:40:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-05-20T10:51:50.199-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Forty-Five: Welcome, Overlords!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/Robo-1.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/Robo-2.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/Robo-3.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/Robo-4b.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't forget to Retweet, share, and spread the love for &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Life After Ph.D.&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I realized I had made the 'Robot Overlords' strip for that io9 challenge, but had never but it up here.  So here it is.  Enjoy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...yeah, not much to say today.  Carry on...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♥ds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/laphdlinkbanner.jpg" width="400" height="100" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-5184038885601277962?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/05/forty-five-welcome-overlords.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/5184038885601277962'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/5184038885601277962'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/05/forty-five-welcome-overlords.html' title='Forty-Five: Welcome, Overlords!'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-9147084637089500579</id><published>2010-05-18T18:10:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-05-18T18:26:23.922-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Forty-Four: Meet the Mayor.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/44.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't forget to Retweet, share, and spread the love for &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Life After Ph.D.&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is basically what happens every time I try to make new friends.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Forgive me, readers, for it has been six days (!) since my last update.  I'm two posts behind schedule and I give you *this*?  A Mayor McCheese joke? (For those of you not in the know, "blumpkin" is defined &lt;a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=blumpkin" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yeah, that's right.  I did that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♥ds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/laphdlinkbanner.jpg" width="400" height="100" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-9147084637089500579?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/05/forty-four-meet-mayor.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/9147084637089500579'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/9147084637089500579'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/05/forty-four-meet-mayor.html' title='Forty-Four: Meet the Mayor.'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-1252469706264603105</id><published>2010-05-12T14:37:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-05-12T14:40:05.233-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Forty-Three: Don't even ask about the stylus.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/43-1.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/43-2.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/43-3.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't forget to Retweet, share, and spread the love for &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Life After Ph.D.&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Number Forty-Three is the last of the iPad gags.  Probably.  That's all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♥ds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/laphdlinkbanner.jpg" width="400" height="100" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-1252469706264603105?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/05/forty-three-dont-even-ask-about-stylus.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/1252469706264603105'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/1252469706264603105'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/05/forty-three-dont-even-ask-about-stylus.html' title='Forty-Three: Don&apos;t even ask about the stylus.'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-8646805187927078709</id><published>2010-05-10T00:07:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-05-10T00:13:00.287-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Forty-Two: You better do what he says...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/42-1.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/42-2.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't forget to Retweet, share, and spread the love for &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Life After Ph.D.&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had planned to make a Douglas Adams reference for this, comic #42, but I forgot.  Then, when I remembered, I had already shut down Photoshop and I was too lazy to go back in an fix it.  meh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other awesome ED-209 news, check out this &lt;a href="http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/26096" target="_blank"&gt;Lego ED-209&lt;/a&gt; instruction set.  The ultimate in dork cool.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♥ds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/laphdlinkbanner.jpg" width="400" height="100" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-8646805187927078709?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/05/forty-two-you-better-do-what-he-says.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/8646805187927078709'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/8646805187927078709'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/05/forty-two-you-better-do-what-he-says.html' title='Forty-Two: You better do what he says...'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-9121713412703025144</id><published>2010-05-08T03:04:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-05-08T03:09:37.209-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Forty-One: iCanHaz?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/41-1.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/41-2.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't forget to Retweet, share, and spread the love for &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Life After Ph.D.&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This very nearly happened last week.  Thank dirt I forgot my credit card at home.  Hilariously, when I got home, my Significant Lover's response was "Let me see it!" and I was all, "See what?" and he was like, "The iPad!" and I was like, "You told me not to buy it, so I didn't." and he was all, "Oh.  Well that's disappointing."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♥ds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/laphdlinkbanner.jpg" width="400" height="100" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-9121713412703025144?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/05/forty-one-icanhaz.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/9121713412703025144'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/9121713412703025144'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/05/forty-one-icanhaz.html' title='Forty-One: iCanHaz?'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-104719008474352657</id><published>2010-05-05T11:45:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-05-05T11:56:34.682-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Forty: Just wait until May 25th!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/40.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't forget to Retweet, share, and spread the love for &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Life After Ph.D.&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May the 4th be with you.&lt;br /&gt;Feliz Cinco de Mayo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To see someone who's already combined these two cultures (Star Wars + Mexico) so much better than I ever could, check out local Austin artist Chepo Peña's &lt;a href="http://www.chepo.net/" target="_blank"&gt;"Space Loteria"&lt;/a&gt;.  It's brilliant and beautiful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♥ds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/laphdlinkbanner.jpg" width="400" height="100" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-104719008474352657?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/05/forty-just-wait-until-may-25th.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/104719008474352657'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/104719008474352657'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/05/forty-just-wait-until-may-25th.html' title='Forty: Just wait until May 25th!'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-4610031991638631187</id><published>2010-04-30T20:20:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2010-04-30T20:37:33.750-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thirty-Nine: Welcome to the Ivory Tower</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/39-1.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/39-2.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/39-3.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't forget to Retweet, share, and spread the love for &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Life After Ph.D.&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you prefer women in your sexualized fantasies, use the following word-replacements in panel two: John=Jane; during sportsball practice = at the cheerdance pillow fight; my muscles are getting really stiff = I think I got a tickle burn; give me a rub-down = put this lotion on my back; glottochronology = lexical diffusion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Panel three is a true story.  Hand to teapot, True Story.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And yes, in my academic fantasies I'm a wizard... working at Oxford.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♥ds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/laphdlinkbanner.jpg" width="400" height="100" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-4610031991638631187?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/04/thirty-nine-welcome-to-ivory-tower.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/4610031991638631187'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/4610031991638631187'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/04/thirty-nine-welcome-to-ivory-tower.html' title='Thirty-Nine: Welcome to the Ivory Tower'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-5685178801710502580</id><published>2010-04-29T09:18:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2010-04-29T09:58:49.681-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thirty-Eight: Anti-Missile Dismissal Missive</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/38.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't forget to Retweet, share, and spread the love for &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Life After Ph.D.&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No, #38 isn't exactly a 'comic' per se.  I spent most of Tuesday getting caught up on my Google Reader feed (finally below 1,000!), wherein I found &lt;a href="http://io9.com/5521259/how-to-create-your-own-tron-poster-using-photoshop" target="_blank"&gt;this story on io9&lt;/a&gt; about making your own Tron poster, which linked me to the &lt;a href="http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/tutorials/how-to-create-a-retro-sci-fi-computer-game-poster" target="_blank"&gt;How To Create A Retro Videogame Poster&lt;/a&gt; issue of the Spoongraphics blog.  And then I got a little lost in the idea and ran out of time for a proper comic... Oopsy!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The title is a pun that a friend of mine gave me.  She took a linguistics class at Harvard wherein &lt;a href="http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~lingdept/f_nevins.html" target="_blank"&gt;her professor&lt;/a&gt; pointed out the infinite regress that allows valid words that contain nothing but an unstoppable number of "anti"s before an interminable number of "missiles" (missile.  anti-missile.  anti-missile missile.  anti-anti-missile missile.  anti-anti-anti-missile missile... etc.).  That kind of crap is the worst kind of pop linguistics. Oy. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♥ds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/laphdlinkbanner.jpg" width="400" height="100" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-5685178801710502580?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/04/thirty-eight-anti-missile-dismissal.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/5685178801710502580'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/5685178801710502580'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/04/thirty-eight-anti-missile-dismissal.html' title='Thirty-Eight: Anti-Missile Dismissal Missive'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-5808211856825321604</id><published>2010-04-25T23:36:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2010-04-25T23:46:24.005-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thirty-Seven: Comedic Wabi-Sabi</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/37-1.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/37-2.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't forget to Retweet, share, and spread the love for &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Life After Ph.D.&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today's comic has been ripped from the moments of this afternoon!  That's right, everyone, I started my bonsai garden today.  I took a medium-sized Japanese Boxwood shrub and separated it into five small bonsai-style plants.  Hopefully, I didn't kill them all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why bonsai?  Well, I think that more than any other non-English phrase tossed randomly into conversation, &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;mono no aware [mo-no no ahh-wah-ray]&lt;/span&gt; really describes how I view the world.  I'm just enlightened like that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(And, yeah, I reused the second panel from #5, but that was *so* long ago and I've changed *so* many tiny aspects of it that I feel I can justify recycling it.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♥ds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/laphdlinkbanner.jpg" width="400" height="100" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-5808211856825321604?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/04/thirty-seven-comedic-wabi-sabi.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/5808211856825321604'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/5808211856825321604'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/04/thirty-seven-comedic-wabi-sabi.html' title='Thirty-Seven: Comedic Wabi-Sabi'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-1229625978732027598</id><published>2010-04-23T14:18:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2010-04-23T14:23:19.779-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thirty-Six: Fridays @ the Office make me want to die.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/36-1.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/36-2.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alt-Codes are the best thing that ever happened to me.  The only redeeming aspect of my job is that I get to spend time dicking-off memorizing alt-codes ("€" is alt+0128!) and claim it's for work purposes.  sigh....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There's was going to be an optional second zinger for Thirty-Six, ending in "my workplace butt!"  I decided single-punchline simplicity was better, though.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♥ds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/laphdlinkbanner.jpg" width="400" height="100" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-1229625978732027598?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/04/thirty-six-fridays-office-make-me-want.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/1229625978732027598'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/1229625978732027598'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/04/thirty-six-fridays-office-make-me-want.html' title='Thirty-Six: Fridays @ the Office make me want to die.'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-5081819074003954785</id><published>2010-04-22T00:50:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2010-04-22T01:17:56.484-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thirty-Five: Game Over.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/35-1.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/35-2.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/35-3.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/35-4.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trapped in Mario World, Part 4 of 4.&lt;br /&gt;And so ends our long, strange trip into Mario World.  I love making Princess Peach say 'fuck'.  I also love love LOVE the "70s Daddy" porntastic styling of Aquaman on the new &lt;em&gt;Batman: The Brave &amp; The Bold&lt;/em&gt; cartoon.  I had to use that somehow.  I think this works. Also, in the first panel, Our Indefatigable Hero is supposed to be wearing Bowser's skinned body as a hat-and-cape (like &lt;a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5c/ROBW_1_Cover.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;), but it didn't work out very well, so he just has a decapitated head hat. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some other fun Mario Bros-related links:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2008/03/realmario.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;IRL Mario&lt;/a&gt;, from Pixeloo and &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://mariomayhem.com/bowsers_blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/realistic_bowser.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;Realistic Bowser&lt;/a&gt;, from Mario Mayhem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hate how the word-action and the image-action can't (or at least don't) always match up in comics.  Like here, by the time Mr. Arrow is saying "Oh boy." (Scott Bakula-style), his arm, which he had up during "Baby! Did you...", should have come down.  And the thing is, I don't know if I'm supposed to be okay with these kinds of inconsistencies, and maybe try and use them for effect, or if I'm supposed to be working to avoid them.  Oh well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other news... Two exciting developments.  First, I've officially "gone public" with L-A-Ph.D. by entering it in a contest and a webcomic uberlist.  I wrote all about it on my blog, which you can find &lt;a href="http://dsbigham.net/blog/2010-04-21_p-r-sweetie/" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  Second, I now have a link-banner for L-A-Ph.D. if you'd like to link me on your site! Huzzah! Here's the image:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/laphdlinkbanner.jpg" width="400" height="100" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♥ds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-5081819074003954785?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/04/thirty-five-game-over.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/5081819074003954785'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/5081819074003954785'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/04/thirty-five-game-over.html' title='Thirty-Five: Game Over.'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-7070685252448604510</id><published>2010-04-19T03:38:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2010-04-19T03:49:48.112-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thirty-Four: Tour the Sewers of Mario World!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/34.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trapped in Mario World, Part 3.&lt;br /&gt;I love making TMNT characters say 'fuck'.  That is all. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stay tuned for more Mario World culture-jamming in Part 4's thrilling multi-panel conclusion!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other news... I'm putting new links on the blog today of other gay webcomics.  They're good stuff, you should check them out (in addition to checking out the other webcomics and links I've got!).  They are:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vikingzombieboyfriend.com/"&gt;Viking Zombie Boyfriend&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://hitchedcomic.com/"&gt;Finn and Charlie Are Hitched&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.capitolhillbillies.net/"&gt;Capitol Hillbillies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and a blog that isn't a gay webcomic, but a gay weblog about comics, &lt;a href="http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/"&gt;Gay League&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh!  And in other news!  No more re-direct to &lt;a href="http://dsbigham.net/blog"&gt;dsbigham.net&lt;/a&gt; needed!  I got Google Analytics to work with Blogger/Blogspot.  Huzzah!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♥ds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-7070685252448604510?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/04/thirty-four-tour-sewers-of-mario-world.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/7070685252448604510'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/7070685252448604510'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/04/thirty-four-tour-sewers-of-mario-world.html' title='Thirty-Four: Tour the Sewers of Mario World!'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-7898265388899238413</id><published>2010-04-16T17:15:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-04-16T17:21:57.184-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thirty-Three: Casualties of Mario World</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/33-1.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/33-2.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trapped in Mario World, Part 2.&lt;br /&gt;I am not in any way making light of war.  I support &lt;a href="http://www.unicef.org/media/media_28772.html"&gt;UNICEF&lt;/a&gt; and the message they're trying to get across with their &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MAYrF1PDks"&gt;Smurfs video&lt;/a&gt;.  ...but I couldn't pass up the juxtaposition of these images.  Also, this ties-in nicely to &lt;a href="http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/04/twenty-nine-heroes-villains-meta-post.html"&gt;Post 29&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stay tuned for more culture-jamming in Part 3!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♥ds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-7898265388899238413?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/04/thirty-three-casualties-of-mario-world.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/7898265388899238413'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/7898265388899238413'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/04/thirty-three-casualties-of-mario-world.html' title='Thirty-Three: Casualties of Mario World'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-998051178825336647</id><published>2010-04-14T21:58:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2010-04-15T11:39:05.934-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thirty-Two: Duhduh duhduh duhduh</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/32-1.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/32-2.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And so begins a series... this will be 1 of 4 or 5 single-panel issues [SideNote: I've misspelled 'panel' as 'pannel' on the actual filename of every comic so far!].  These tie in thematically with the &lt;a href="http://dsbigham.net/blog/2010-04-15_endgame/"&gt;Endgame&lt;/a&gt; post on &lt;a href="http://dsbigham.net/blog/"&gt;Boilerplate 3.0&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stay tuned for more!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♥ds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-998051178825336647?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/04/thirty-two-duhduh-duhduh-duhduh.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/998051178825336647'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/998051178825336647'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/04/thirty-two-duhduh-duhduh-duhduh.html' title='Thirty-Two: Duhduh duhduh duhduh'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-4987333054541085161</id><published>2010-04-12T01:09:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2010-04-12T01:37:51.287-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thirty-One: SYSLJFM?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/31-0.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/31-1.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/31-2.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/31-3.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ahh... recursive masturbation.  I'll admit, I've done it (TMI?); irregardless [yes, that's what I said], I've been wanting to do a series of 'recursion/meta-reality' jokes for a long time, and this week is going to be it, starting with recursive self-love.  Coincidentally, this is also what this week's Boilerplate post, "&lt;a href="http://dsbigham.net/blog/2010-04-12_sci-fi-saudade/"&gt;Sci-Fi Saudade&lt;/a&gt;", is about: recursion, meta-reality, and &lt;em&gt;la recherche du temps perdu&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In technical news, a couple new things with this one.  First, it comes with an NSFW warning, heh. Second, I've reduced the typeface slightly. There are so many things I want to do, but the heavy text kills it, so I thought, why not make the text smaller?  Let me know if you hate it. I'm beginning to think I need to go a shade lighter on the text backgrounds, too.  I don't think the 'glows' are really doing what I had wanted them to.  Oh well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, and for the record, that is *not* my Adam4Adam profile.&lt;br /&gt;I don't even have an Adam4Adam profile.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♥ds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.S. The headline, "SYSLJFM" is a reference to the alphabet soup of sexual fetishes in the Adam4Adam profile.  Hilarious.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-4987333054541085161?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/04/thirty-one-sysljfm.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/4987333054541085161'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/4987333054541085161'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/04/thirty-one-sysljfm.html' title='Thirty-One: SYSLJFM?'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-7688359157351127297</id><published>2010-04-09T16:23:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2010-04-09T16:28:43.579-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thirty: Casualty of the Format Wars</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/30-1.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/30-2.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Okay, so this is only half-true.  I didn't invest in HD-DVD, but I supported it.  In fact, if I would have had the money to replace my DVDs with either HD-DVD or Blu-ray, I would have gone HD-DVD. So thank goodness for poverty in this case.  As for all the others... ALL THE OTHERS... yeah, I went with Sony and lost every time.  Anybody need a MiniDisc player?  I've got three of them.  How about an SACD player?  &lt;br&gt;Anybody? &lt;br&gt; Anybody?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-7688359157351127297?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/04/thirty-casualty-of-format-wars.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/7688359157351127297'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/7688359157351127297'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/04/thirty-casualty-of-format-wars.html' title='Thirty: Casualty of the Format Wars'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-2410690931919935597</id><published>2010-04-07T20:39:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-04-07T20:40:02.372-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Twenty-Nine: Heroes &amp; Villains - The Meta Post</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/29-1.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/29-2.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/29-3.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-2410690931919935597?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/04/twenty-nine-heroes-villains-meta-post.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/2410690931919935597'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/2410690931919935597'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/04/twenty-nine-heroes-villains-meta-post.html' title='Twenty-Nine: Heroes &amp; Villains - The Meta Post'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-8334398897404895831</id><published>2010-04-04T17:16:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2010-04-04T17:20:26.186-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Twenty-Eight: This is my body.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/28-1.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/28-2.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two things I like about this.  (a) "the Bread is Risen" and (b) shirtless Mr. Arrow's abs.  Sexy.  I was originally planning on doing an entire 'Stations of The Cross' parody for Easter, but I couldn't think of how to do it.  Maybe next year...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-8334398897404895831?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/04/twenty-eight-this-is-my-body.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/8334398897404895831'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/8334398897404895831'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/04/twenty-eight-this-is-my-body.html' title='Twenty-Eight: This is my body.'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-7658359416669485111</id><published>2010-04-02T17:15:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2010-04-02T17:16:25.320-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Twenty-Seven: Good (Enough For) Friday</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/27-1.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/27-2.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of these things does not belong here, one of these things is not the same...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-7658359416669485111?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/04/twenty-seven-good-enough-for-friday.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/7658359416669485111'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/7658359416669485111'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/04/twenty-seven-good-enough-for-friday.html' title='Twenty-Seven: Good (Enough For) Friday'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-7300695842104845638</id><published>2010-04-01T14:42:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-04-01T14:45:32.056-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Twenty-Six: April Fools!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/26.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ha!  The joke is that this is a day late and a punchline short!  HA! Ha! ha. heh. eh. ehhhh.... Not very funny, though, right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-7300695842104845638?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/04/twenty-six-april-fools.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/7300695842104845638'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/7300695842104845638'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/04/twenty-six-april-fools.html' title='Twenty-Six: April Fools!'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-3749816949749255197</id><published>2010-03-28T22:43:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-03-28T22:55:17.628-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Twenty-Five: En Garde!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/25-1.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/25-2.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/25-3.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/25-4.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/25-5.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've done 25 of these damn things now.  Color me impressed with myself.  Number 25, "En Garde", is certainly a good one for the quarter-hundred mark, too.  It was inspired by my friend Jess White (actually, she provided the entire outline for it... thanks jess!) and by the &lt;a href="http://www.sherwoodforestfaire.com/index.htm"&gt;Sherwood Forest Faire&lt;/a&gt; currently going on here in Austin.  I haven't been yet, but I'm planning to go next week.  And I've finally figured out how to do a bathroom panel!  yay!  Expect many more bathroom shenanigans (or Che-nanigans! ha!) for our indefatigable hero in the future...&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As for my 23:00h update, well... at least the Sunday update was technically on-time, right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♥-ds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-3749816949749255197?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/03/twenty-five-en-garde.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/3749816949749255197'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/3749816949749255197'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/03/twenty-five-en-garde.html' title='Twenty-Five: En Garde!'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-1458136001584762833</id><published>2010-03-26T14:58:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-03-26T15:06:10.335-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Twenty-Four: Thus Spoke Zarathustra</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/24-1.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/24-2.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think the second panel could have also worked if I'd stopped with "polishing my monolith", but whatever.  If you don't get the "full of stars" punchline, look at this &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oALxLNOhI6I"&gt;YouTube clip&lt;/a&gt;, this &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowman_%28Space_Odyssey%29"&gt;Wikipedia entry &lt;/a&gt;, and then follow-up with this &lt;a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Chocolate%20Star-Fish"&gt;Urban Dictionary entry&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; For the record, the yellow represents pictures of adorable baby animals doing cute things, like sneezing or sleeping in sinks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-1458136001584762833?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/03/twenty-four-thus-spoke-zarathustra.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/1458136001584762833'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/1458136001584762833'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/03/twenty-four-thus-spoke-zarathustra.html' title='Twenty-Four: Thus Spoke Zarathustra'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-791899469032915501</id><published>2010-03-25T01:55:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-03-25T01:58:32.986-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Twenty-Three: Differently Chic!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/23-1.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/23-2.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/23-3.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I caught my significant lover wearing "fashion glasses" today as part of his "geek chic" look.  He KNOWS how I feel about "fashion glasses".  Damn him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-791899469032915501?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/03/twenty-three-differently-chic.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/791899469032915501'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/791899469032915501'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/03/twenty-three-differently-chic.html' title='Twenty-Three: Differently Chic!'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-7184270859353207603</id><published>2010-03-21T00:31:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2010-03-21T00:34:46.122-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Twenty-Two: Comfort Food Zone</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/22-1.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/22-2.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saturday morning, 6am, took the BFF who wrecked her car to the airport so she could get home and get her hell-trip over with.  The other BFF and I will continue to hang until Tuesday, sans ham.  South-By-South-Suck, man. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-7184270859353207603?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/03/twenty-two-comfort-food-zone.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/7184270859353207603'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/7184270859353207603'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/03/twenty-two-comfort-food-zone.html' title='Twenty-Two: Comfort Food Zone'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-5808706190236820116</id><published>2010-03-18T20:30:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-03-18T20:41:09.127-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Twenty-One: SXSMadness, 2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/21-1.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/21-2.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/21-3.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;South By was supposed to be AWESOME this year.  The BFFs came down, I'm getting my tax refund tomorrow, it was ALL supposed to work, SXSFUN!  But no.  The BFF totaled her car, I spent all night in the hospital, all day the next day dealing with insurance and a towing company in the middle of nowhere... ugh.  Everyone is fine, but ugh.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Also, I've had a huge crush on one of the guys who works at I Luv Video, and I wanted to make a comic about it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-5808706190236820116?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/03/twenty-one-sxsmadness-2010.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/5808706190236820116'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/5808706190236820116'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/03/twenty-one-sxsmadness-2010.html' title='Twenty-One: SXSMadness, 2010'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-3870476278783590894</id><published>2010-03-15T00:28:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-03-15T00:32:26.054-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Nineteen: SXSWi Parties Have the Hottest Guys.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/19.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 'punch-line' feels a bit off in this one, but I needed something quick &amp; relevant to put up during SXSWi.  &lt;em&gt;Life After Ph.D.&lt;/em&gt; - Now with Guest Stars!  Also, our heroes' arms and legs (and hands and feet) disappear in a dark background, making it more awkward than it otherwise would be, I think.  Meh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-3870476278783590894?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/03/nineteen-sxswi-parties-have-hottest.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/3870476278783590894'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/3870476278783590894'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/03/nineteen-sxswi-parties-have-hottest.html' title='Nineteen: SXSWi Parties Have the Hottest Guys.'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-3524457378756334140</id><published>2010-03-14T14:51:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2010-03-14T14:53:11.160-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Twenty.  The Geek/Non-Geek Dating Game</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/20-1.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/20-2.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/20-3.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/20-4.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/20-5.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In honor of SXSWi.  I think this one speaks for itself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-3524457378756334140?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/03/twenty-geeknon-geek-dating-game.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/3524457378756334140'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/3524457378756334140'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/03/twenty-geeknon-geek-dating-game.html' title='Twenty.  The Geek/Non-Geek Dating Game'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-977309093162500884</id><published>2010-03-11T01:08:00.013-06:00</published><updated>2010-03-11T01:27:28.520-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Eighteen: "Nope, not that kind..."</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/18-1.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/18-2.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:840px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 130%; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This really happened to me at work.  Hand to god.  And the 'tits' exchange was longer, with a hilarious misunderstanding over the sexual significance vs. fashionable appreciation of well-made high heel boots.  But still, true story.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-977309093162500884?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/03/eighteen-nope-not-that-kind.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/977309093162500884'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/977309093162500884'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/03/eighteen-nope-not-that-kind.html' title='Eighteen: &quot;Nope, not that kind...&quot;'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-5204301022253914177</id><published>2010-03-07T16:06:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-03-07T16:07:01.322-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Seventeen.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/17-1.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/17-2.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-5204301022253914177?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/03/seventeen.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/5204301022253914177'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/5204301022253914177'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/03/seventeen.html' title='Seventeen.'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-5092300941695811571</id><published>2010-02-28T21:59:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-02-28T22:00:01.669-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Sixteen.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/16-1.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/16-2.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/16-3.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/16-4.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/16-5.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-5092300941695811571?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/02/sixteen.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/5092300941695811571'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/5092300941695811571'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/02/sixteen.html' title='Sixteen.'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-9175943781990891025</id><published>2010-02-26T16:26:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2010-02-26T16:27:40.524-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Fifteen.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/15-1.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/15-2.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-9175943781990891025?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/02/fifteen.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/9175943781990891025'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/9175943781990891025'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/02/fifteen.html' title='Fifteen.'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-1778823569707169069</id><published>2010-02-21T15:03:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-02-21T15:05:11.570-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Fourteen.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/14-1.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/14-2.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/14-3.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/14-4.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-1778823569707169069?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/02/fourteen.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/1778823569707169069'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/1778823569707169069'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/02/fourteen.html' title='Fourteen.'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-3196784970866593368</id><published>2010-02-14T19:14:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-02-14T19:15:20.102-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Thirteen.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/13.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-3196784970866593368?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/02/thirteen.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/3196784970866593368'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/3196784970866593368'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/02/thirteen.html' title='Thirteen.'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-2913986590151284803</id><published>2010-02-13T12:26:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-02-13T12:27:17.743-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Twelve.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/12.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-2913986590151284803?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/02/twelve.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/2913986590151284803'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/2913986590151284803'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/02/twelve.html' title='Twelve.'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-4470731086211433752</id><published>2010-02-07T22:09:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-02-07T22:10:26.197-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Eleven.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/11-1.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/11-2.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/11-3.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-4470731086211433752?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/02/eleven.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/4470731086211433752'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/4470731086211433752'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/02/eleven.html' title='Eleven.'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-6119043132688628619</id><published>2010-01-31T23:04:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2010-01-31T23:05:44.670-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Ten.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/10-1.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/10-2.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-6119043132688628619?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/01/ten.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/6119043132688628619'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/6119043132688628619'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/01/ten.html' title='Ten.'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-3262006223329017470</id><published>2010-01-28T09:55:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2010-01-28T10:45:02.566-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Nine.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/9.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*Comic #9 was inspired by &lt;a href= "http://io9.com/5457675/mathematician-uses-seti-formula-to-determine-he-has-a-000034-chance-of-getting-laid" target="_blank"&gt; this story.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-3262006223329017470?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/01/nine.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/3262006223329017470'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/3262006223329017470'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/01/nine.html' title='Nine.'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-5081987573941211391</id><published>2010-01-24T19:05:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-01-24T19:06:22.269-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Eight.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/8.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-5081987573941211391?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/01/eight.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/5081987573941211391'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/5081987573941211391'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/01/eight.html' title='Eight.'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-6774953243648438575</id><published>2010-01-22T15:12:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2010-01-22T15:12:59.169-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Seven.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/7.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-6774953243648438575?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/01/seven.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/6774953243648438575'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/6774953243648438575'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/01/seven.html' title='Seven.'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-1891279872462074001</id><published>2010-01-20T02:53:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2010-01-20T02:56:23.016-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Six.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/6.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-1891279872462074001?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/01/six.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/1891279872462074001'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/1891279872462074001'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/01/six.html' title='Six.'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-6708427881163105286</id><published>2010-01-17T20:57:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-01-17T20:58:58.578-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Five.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/5-1.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/5-2.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-6708427881163105286?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/01/five.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/6708427881163105286'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/6708427881163105286'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/01/five.html' title='Five.'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-7802101868073874047</id><published>2010-01-15T03:25:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2010-03-07T16:07:39.511-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Character Introduction Interlude.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/characters-1.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/characters-2.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/characters-3.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/characters-4.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-7802101868073874047?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/01/character-introduction-interlude.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/7802101868073874047'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/7802101868073874047'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/01/character-introduction-interlude.html' title='Character Introduction Interlude.'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-7190924596002867276</id><published>2010-01-14T03:30:00.004-06:00</published><updated>2010-01-17T20:59:22.420-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Four.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/4-1.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/4-2.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-7190924596002867276?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/01/four.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/7190924596002867276'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/7190924596002867276'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/01/four.html' title='Four.'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-6966119567279277438</id><published>2010-01-10T23:26:00.005-06:00</published><updated>2010-01-17T20:59:34.831-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Three.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/3.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-6966119567279277438?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/01/three.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/6966119567279277438'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/6966119567279277438'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/01/three.html' title='Three.'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-8626066868093140945</id><published>2010-01-03T23:17:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2010-01-17T20:59:58.858-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Two.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/2-1.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/2-2.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/2-3.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/2-4.jpg" width="864" height="480" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-8626066868093140945?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/01/two.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/8626066868093140945'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/8626066868093140945'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/01/two.html' title='Two.'/><author><name>Life After Ph.D.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06218301571676189411</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252771916629100146.post-8208123013203016179</id><published>2010-01-01T23:06:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2010-01-13T10:16:13.791-06:00</updated><title type='text'>One.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://dsbigham.net/creative/lifeafterphd/1.png" width="600" height="600" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2252771916629100146-8208123013203016179?l=lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeafterphdcomics.blogspot.com/2010/01/one.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2252771916629100146/posts/default/8208123013203016179'/><link rel='self' 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