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Well, I successfullydefended my PHD dissertation today, finally, so now I can officially claim the title of Dr. It only took 8 years thanks to a stroke delay, but it's done, so now I'm trying to figure out what's next.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Congratulations Walt, I know it's been a long time coming but now it's yours...Dr. Fair!
I do all my own stunts, but never intentionally!
JaxCoder.com
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Over here, the Ph.D document is called a dissertation, Thesis is for undergraduate and Masters stuff. My Disertation was "Development of an integrated Reservoir and Operational model for Marginal oil fields.
Basically it was applied math and numerical solution of partial differential equations implemented in C#
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Congratulations Doc!
Now what?
PS: I hope you used a better spell checker for your thesis than the one you used for the subject of this post! 
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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I hope so, too!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Congratulations! Having supported two of my offspring through their PhD's, I have a fair understanding the the sheer foot-slogging grind involved.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Selected a secret lair location yet?
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No, I'd love to go on teaching and further research, I.e Academia, but so far no possibilities have crawled to my doorstep.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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<bugs-bunny-voice>
What's up, Doc?
</bugs-bunny-voice>
Seriously, congratulations!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Congratulations!
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Congratulations Sir! ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
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Exceptional! Congratulations, Doctor Fair!
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Well done!
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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My Ph. D is in Petroleum Engineering.
For me, a major accomplishment was standing up for an hour for my defense. That's the longest I've been able to stand since the stroke 5 years ago.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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I'm well aware of that, when I told people I was working on a PHD, often the answer was that once I finished they wouldn't consider talking to me.It seems to depend on each company's culture, some seem to cherish having Ph.D.'s on staff, others not.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Congrats, well done. What's next? Update your CP signature, for a start, Doctor.
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Gratz Dr Walt 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Congratulations, Dr.! In what, pray tell?
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Some years ago my tenacious fighter pilot tech wife and I were driving from our cabin in the woods to Anaheim California to visit the folks. We stopped for the night at a motel 6 (because we're bad a$$) in Beaver Utah. We checked in and went off to our room where there was supposed to be free WiFi for all.
There was a strongish SSID I could connect to that looked like it was the motel's but it was secured and we were not given the PW. So my wife went down to the desk to ask the international family running the place what the PW might be and was greeted with the equivalent of "Ri Do No" (Think scooby doo). My dear wife, gosh I love her, said I'm a tech, can I have a look at your router? Which they inexplicably let her (She is a traffic stopper even after 8 hours in a car) so she must have stunned Dad because she came back into the room where she left me and said matter of factually, " I reset the router, look for Linksys, it should work now". I said "You Whaaa...." but hey it connected and I had the internet! So thanks babe, you're the best. I think I fell asleep right after that.
So if you ever find the Wifi at the Beaver Utah motel 6 open and free (I doubt you will) you can thank Tenacious K.
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I never use hotel or restaurant WiFi. It's always dreadful.
One anecdote though... I was staying at a hotel (in Las Vegas, baby) and the WiFi kept dropping out. Each room had its own device, cleverly hidden behind the TV. So I unplugged mine, connected to the device in the next room, and called it good.
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So, if she can do all the techy stuff, what exactly is it that you contribute to the relationship?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Weren't you listening? He drives the car.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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