* * * Hanging Out With a Bunch of Grad Students * * * Of course, the first thing we'd do is go to the bar The bev-bot nods hello and asks, "the usual?" and then mixes you your 1 parts Head-Poured Vodka, 5 parts Hand-Crafted Gin Then we'd start talking about what we were doing. They would say things like: My doctoral thesis: Reasonable Mathematical Network Transmission Network Transmission Sequence at least until old Drinks-Lotsa-Beers would walk in. And then we would all say Thou bawdy rump-fed flax-wench and by that time, either one of us would pass out shortly after mumbling I DON'T HAVE ANY IDEA WHERE I AM or we'd end up telling bad jokes like: What's the difference between a hub and a capacitor?