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Jumping the shark?
Carl-E:
Wasn't me, it was Zadojla the Wombat. I have no idea who the hell spoke at my commencements. I only attended one of them, anyway!
...and I found out why I don't remember. Purdue feels it's about the graduates, and so doesn't bring in big name speakers, never has. You're addressed by the President of the University, the Chancellor, the valedictorian and salutatorian, and there's a non-denominational (but christian) blessing.
I missed my Doctoral graduation from IU because I defended in July, and so "graduated" in August, when I already had started a teaching position in a different state.
Got the diploma in the mail about three weeks later.
zadojla:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 09 Nov 2010, 07:20 ---Wasn't me, it was Zadojla the Wombat. I have no idea who the hell spoke at my commencements. I only attended one of them, anyway!
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I bet you would have attanded if Isaac Asimov were speaking! A couple years later my best friend graduated, and Carl Sagan was the speaker. That was pretty good too, but he talked in "technical syntax" and pretty much lost all the family members. It was a engineering/science school.
Skewbrow:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 09 Nov 2010, 07:20 ---Wasn't me, it was Zadojla the Wombat. I have no idea who the hell spoke at my commencements. I only attended one of them, anyway!
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Sorry. I really should learn how to read a chain of quotes.
Olymander:
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 09 Nov 2010, 05:42 ---
--- Quote from: Olymander on 09 Nov 2010, 01:23 ---It was the short story Runaround. I remember the story as well, and the associated link I gave gives a pretty good summary of the story. As for Asimov being your commencement speaker... lucky!
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I remember that story, too. The good Dr Asimov wrote several such stories, where the conflicts resulting from Laws 1,2,3 played a key role. My favorite ones are (sorry can't remember the title) the one where the good guys identified a robot gone bad (among scores of look-alikes) by using the fact that the culprit was the only suspect, who would know that certain kind of radiation was harmless to humans. Therefore it felt compelled to act in a given setting. Its robot peers had learned that it is pointless to rush thru some radiation to the aid of humans, because their expensive brain would liquify before they could come to the aid. Another favorite of mine titled LIAR was about a robot that accidentally gained mind-reading powers. Therefore it felt compelled to deceive people about their romantic feelings being reciprocated.
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For the record, the story you can't remember the name of is Little Lost Robot.
Skewbrow:
--- Quote from: Olymander on 10 Nov 2010, 11:15 ---
For the record, the story you can't remember the name of is Little Lost Robot.
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That's the one. Thanks for the link.
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