> Yes!

o_O

>> Why?
> 
> What do you have to lose?

My mind? My livelihood? My youth? My virginity?

Oh, wait...

> You could always become a professor at the 
> university, teaching people signal processing theory or some such.

LOL! As if anybody would care...

>> 4. It is *highly* unlikely that having a PhD will make any kind of 
>> positive change to my employment situation.
> 
> It couldn't hurt.

There is such a thing as "over-qualified". Apparently.

>> 5. Presumably a PhD is a serious amount of hard work. It's not exactly 
>> a pleasure cruise. So I'd need a good reason to do one.
> 
> Right lots of work, but you'll learn a lot and could be an interesting 
> journey.

Well, I guess it depends on finding a good subject.

>> 6. I rather doubt that you can get a PhD in "doing cool stuff". 
>> Presumably it must be something rather more specific than that.
> 
> Depends, You'd need to do lots of research and such. But, you could pick 
> something that interests you and pursue that.

Certainly all the stuff the OU is looking at seems to be socially based. 
"How can we make computers more cuddly?" I really don't give a fig.

>> 8. Are you mental?
> 
> Yes, yes I am.

Ah, I'm glad we sorted that one out. :-)

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