lisarea

Whatever.

Numerologists, astrologers, physicists, psychologists, phlebotomists--they're all basically the same.

They're all scientologists, and they're all mean.

WWSD

Feh, tropical ecologist. So what you ride your bike and play frisbee in paradise once a year?


Serioulsy though, where do you do your field work? We have some tropical ecologists int the dept (they are no doubt playing frisbee or riding thier bikes right now) who head down to Belize every year.

The Lone Ranger

Yeah, I know a mycologist. He's a real fungi.

Shadowy Man

Am I the only one around here geeky enough to have found my first post in this thread funny??

How pathetic...

Abacus

Average. Mean. Hah! I just got it! I didn't realize it was meant to be funny.

Opera Nut

Note to fungi: EAT MORE MYXOMYCETES.

(I took a four hour course in Slime Molds -- I dare anyone to come up with a more useless and obscure college course).

The Lone Ranger

For what it's worth, I thought it was funny. It's what inspired my awful "fungi" pun.

Cheers,

Michael

Defiant Heretic

Climbing trees, taking his glowing dog to the park...he gets to do all kinds of cool stuff.

Quetzal

Did (note the really really unfortunate past tense) work in Nicaragua - I worked in/operated an environmental consulting firm based in Managua for four years. Most of our work was developing management plans, baseline studies and environmental assessments in wildlife refuges or nature preserves. We worked primarily in the Refugio de Vida Silvestre La Flor (turning it into a Parque Nacional) building it into a sea turtle conservation preserve; the Area Protegida El Arenal (developing a comprehensive management and restoration plan - the site is one of the last easily accessible locations in north-central Nicaragua for studying northern quetzals and when we started work some 40% of the remaining preserve had been illegally clear cut); developing the management strategy for the Refugio de Vida Silvestre Chacocente/Rio Escalante (again sea turtles); and finally doing the initial ecosystem surveys and baseline studies for the Reserva Natural Cerro Kilambe. Of course, not being able to make any real money at it is how I ended up in Ukraine...

Loki

'Course space people are mean. They crunch PDEs all day long and have to work in godforsaken places to used telescopes and never get to go to the places the Star trek people came from. Ooh, the devastation.

It's the physicists who are really mean.