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pocketfox
2008-05-01 09:14 pm UTC (link)

PV: ...One time Tom Cormen was sitting in the class, and she [a student] asked me, how many T’s are in Gattaca. This was the kind of question she was asking, “how many T’s are in Gattaca?,” and I was about to answer her and Tom Cormen pre-empted me, “two t’s.” I’ll leave you to interpret it.
TDR: No. No, I don’t understand that.
PV: I have to tell you: it means tenure track.
TDR: Oh, okay.
PV: Because I wasn’t tenured track.
TDR: Oh, okay, yes.
PV: They were trying to intimate that I wasn’t ready for tenure track.
TDR: Yes, okay, I didn’t realize that’s what that meant.
PV: I’m kind of making this leap because this is the kind of subversiveness that was going on in that environment. That [girl x] would ask how many t’s are in Gattaca and that Tom Cormen would respond, “two T’s” as if I had no grasp on tenure track. ..but with [girl x], something’s going on with her. I’m not a doctor, but she’s not all there.

...Okay!

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	singe 2008-05-01 11:36 pm UTC (link)
	Yipe. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	issendai 2008-05-02 01:23 am UTC (link)
	As the interviewer sits there thinking, "Smile and nod... smile and nod..." (Reply to this)(Parent)

	tunxeh 2008-05-02 04:06 am UTC (link)
	If "Gattaca" is an acronym in which the two t's stand for "tenure track", what do all those other letters stand for? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	panthea 2008-05-02 04:49 pm UTC (link)
	Got A Tenure Track? All Cyborgs Agree. ...fucked if I know. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	DAMN. redwarrior 2008-05-06 09:19 pm UTC (link)
	This woman's a batshit insane Derrida Zombie. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	pseudo_dense 2008-05-20 03:27 am UTC (link)
	Methinks the only one 'not all there' is her. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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