These papers need to just fuck off already. They are the papers that WILL NOT DIE!!
Get out of my damn life, you pieces of shit. (Actually, they are pretty good work, not pieces of shit, but I am sooo fucking tired of them that thinking about them makes me want to puke!)
I liked writing them, I even like editing them (for the most part), but seriously, this, "can you show Panel 6B in a different orientation - perhaps rotated 37 degrees counter-clockwise? Oh. No, I like it better the first way, but maybe we could show an inset...no, not a rectangular inset - make it triangle" bullshit has got to stop! It does not change the data!!! They still tell us the same thing whether the inset is rectangular, triangular, or polyhedral!!!
I need to get these things out of my life, preferably before the motherfukcing holidays so I can safely retreat into a mulled-wine induced stupor for about a week and emerge on the other side refreshed. If I still have to cater to this shit while I'm on "vacation", homicide is not out of the question.
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I hope you work things out! Albatros#1 needs to fly, on his own, to the great outer world, so you can rest.
Kill the freaking bird, and drink some wine on its health!
You can do it!
oh... i SO recognize that. "What, you want it to be a triangle, a circle and a star instead of a circle, diamond and a triangle"....
Good luck with it and enjoying the holidays. I'm hoping to get my revision out the door before the 22nd. Hope's spring enternal and all that jazz ;)
I'm in manuscript hell right now myself. I'm waiting on one, working on another. I would really like these monkeys kicked to the curb.
I know some academics who use the "mulled-wine induced stupor" to help with revisions. Not that I encourage this, but I'm just saying...
So what you're trying to say is that we need to go find Reviewer 3 and tell her what's up? I can totally send them coal for x-mas, just gimme an address to send it too ^^.
I'm sending you Matt Damon for xmas to tell Reviewer 3 to fuck off.
jc
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/12/12/magazine/14actors.html#6
Thanks JC!!
That's awesome!
urgh, reviewer bullshit.
We got a paper back with some stupid ass comments asking for more pointeless experiments and shit. My old PI wrote a long and detailed letter explaining why the reviewer had his/her head in their ass and pointed out that the experiments would take 6 months, cost $3000 and add nothing to the paper.
We got accepted.
Good luck getting it done before your vacay
Yeah, the fact that they're asking for stupid little things like "can you crop the left side of panel 3F so that the background is balanced on both sides of the region of interest?" tells me that they really don't have any substantial objections. I appreciate that anything can always be improved and that the reviewers want to provide *some* useful feedback, and to be honest, I am kind of a perfectionist when it comes to the aesthetics of data presentation...but this is just getting stupid. But I will do it to make them happy. And to make me happy.
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