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Post by dumbdiety on Oct 1, 2004 9:23:48 GMT -5
Couldn't resist this one...
1) Name: Doug Dinneen
2) Height: 6' 1''
3) Occupation: Network Administrator
4) What do you do on Sundays? Sleep, laundry, study for class
5) What languages can you speak? English, tiny bit of Spanish (I live in South florida, you NEED to know a little bit...)
6) Who has had the most influence on you? My best friend from middle school
7) What's on your "To Do" list? Finish school, move to Chicago/New York/Boston, get a job teaching
8) Discribe your living situation: Recently divorced, so I'm back to living with my parents
9) Previous Halloween costumes: Crow, Riddler, Batman, Cyclops from the X-Men
10) Your dream job: Teaching elementary school! Only 1 year of school left! YAY!
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Post by me on Nov 3, 2005 15:41:40 GMT -5
well, it's been over a year since anyone did this. anyone new here?  - d |
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Post by Jules80 on Nov 3, 2005 16:44:34 GMT -5
well i never answered this so here it goes... i'm in major procrastination mode today! 1) Name: Julie 2) Height: 5'9" 3) Occupation: student... masters... we'll keep it to i study fish habitat... 4) What do you do on Sundays? sleep, procrastinate, knit, and write my thesis 5) What languages can you speak? english and french fluently, a little bit of italian 6) Who has had the most influence on you? my best friend... 7) What's on your "To Do" list? Finish my thesis, find a fabulous job in env. consulting, move somewhere exciting (preferably in the UK) and travel lots 8) Discribe your living situation: all alone  peace and quiet! 9) Previous Halloween costumes: karate kid, black cat, devil 10) Your dream job: environmental consultant... 2 months of the thesis left! |
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Post by me on Nov 3, 2005 18:24:37 GMT -5
3) Occupation: student... masters... we'll keep it to i study fish habitat... wow! closest i ever came to that was helping to build a Habitat For Humanity house. - d |
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Post by Jules80 on Nov 3, 2005 18:31:46 GMT -5
i'd like to help build a house one day... that would be cool! for now its fish hiding under rocks for me!!!! gotta save those salmon if we want to keep eating them! Julie |
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Post by LHR02 on Nov 3, 2005 18:49:24 GMT -5
Jules! Masters? Wow, I am so impressed! And do keep those salmon alive...I eat them several times a week! Masters? Who knew what superior folks we chat with1 |
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Post by Jules80 on Nov 3, 2005 19:02:18 GMT -5
yup masters... i'll be happy when its done... and no, no phd after! i'm sick of school! i want some real money!
when people find out that's what i work on they always assume i don't eat salmon... yummy yummy salmon!
Jules
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Post by me on Nov 4, 2005 0:05:12 GMT -5
i'd like to help build a house one day... that would be cool! for now its fish hiding under rocks for me!!!! gotta save those salmon if we want to keep eating them! Julie, Salmon are yummy, as you say. but, they are also healthy. what's it called? Omega3 fatty acid? also, i was trying to be funny: fish habitat - habitat for humanity. ha-ha - d |
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Post by budwac on Nov 4, 2005 2:08:35 GMT -5
1) Name: James
2) Height: 6' 3 1/2"
3) Occupation: Crummy job in marketing and an aspiring film maker.
4) What do you do on Sundays? Well, if it's not football season... I can't really remember.
5) What languages can you speak? English, a tiny bit of the French that I have forgotten since high school, and a tiny bit of Arabic (if the bad words count).
6) Who has had the most influence on you? Aside from my family and a couple of my English professors, I would have to say Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Fellini, and David Letterman.
7) What's on your "To Do" list? Get a new job, save enough money for my first solo trip to Europe, make my own film, and take the dog for a walk. Oh, and get a new job.
8) Describe your living situation: I live with my older brother in a house just a couple of minutes outside of downtown Denver. And I can't possibly forget to mention my dog, Lucy.
9) Previous Halloween costumes: I enjoy dressing up for Halloween, so here is just a taste of my most recent costumes: Borat (from the Ali G Show), Magnum, P.I., the Dude, and Clyde Barrow.
10) Your dream job: To direct my own feature film.
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Post by Jules80 on Nov 4, 2005 9:10:58 GMT -5
very funny david  yup salmon are healthy! but beware of how much atlantic salmon you eat! i'm not really up on pacific salmon and fish farming, but any atlantic salmon you buy in a store is from a fish farm and you can't eat that too much... there's a lot of toxins built up in them from anti-biotics and other such things.... if you buy fresh salmon... try and avoid the grey meat close to the skin. tha'ts where it all builds up. but now we can move off of fish and on to more exciting topics:D |
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Post by LHR02 on Nov 4, 2005 9:18:12 GMT -5
Well now Jules...I read a few years ago that children and 'fertile' women should not eat some fish more than once a week...and I recall it was tuna and salmon as listed as culprits to avoid in excess. Is this along the lines of what you are referring to?
And Publix...which has off and on bourbon basted fresh salmon is simply the best! Anytime they have it I buy.....quick grilling and you are in for some delicious dinner!
How did you arrive at this line of study? Just curious. I would have never guessed you could get a masters in 'fish'....NOT meaning to demean it in any way, just wondering, is it more of a biology type thing or actually as topic specific as it seems?
ging
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Post by Jules80 on Nov 4, 2005 9:22:38 GMT -5
ah ginger... my undergrad is environment... but i specialised in physical geography... more specifically i study rivers (fluvial geomorphology). my masters project has two parts. the first is validating a new technique to mesure water velocity using a video camera. the second is to use this technique to characterize salmon habitat. part of the problem (although not all of it) is the destruction of their fresh water habitats. so while i study fish habitat i don't actually study the fish themselves. i consider myself a geographer and not a biologist. my masters is technically in earth sciences.
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Post by LHR02 on Nov 4, 2005 9:32:38 GMT -5
COOL! I like the sound of that....a 'geographer'! And so, may I ask, if your specialty is rivers, have you had the opportunity yet to visit some of the world's great rivers? Hmmmm....holding true to the subject of this board, methinks you could get some drop dead travel out of this in the end! Amazon, Nile, Rhine, Ganges....gosh, the list is endless! So, will this lead to a private sector job or is it in more of a government situation? Not trying to be nosey, I am genuinely interested. ging |
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Post by dumbdiety on Nov 4, 2005 9:43:14 GMT -5
So, will this lead to a private sector job or is it in more of a government situation? Not trying to be nosey, I am genuinely interested. Hmmm...sounds like Ging found out what she wants to be when she grows up! ;D |
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Post by Jules80 on Nov 4, 2005 9:43:20 GMT -5
i have not seen any of the above mentionned rivers... however i'm always very interested in the rivers that run through cities... most are relatively tame rivers (very slow water velocities)... but the one that flows through luzern is nuts! i'm amazed it was built along! but the amazon and the nile are definately on the list. amazon amazes me simply cause i can't fathom how enormous it is. i mean i live next to the st-lawrence river which is enormous but i still can't wrap my brain around the amazon. the nile is cool because of how it has been used... it has the oldest flood records in the world. the whole ancient egypt thing is a big draw for me... i took classes on it in university...
i don't really want to work for the government... things i've heard just don't inspire me so much. its one of those things... i really don't want to live in the US (nothing personal it has a lot to do with health care) although it would be really cool to work for the USGS. what i'd really like is to work in environmental consulting (so private) anywhere in canada or the uk (i'm a citizen). so in the next couple of months the job hunt will seriously begin.
jules
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peace and quiet!
yup salmon are healthy! but beware of how much atlantic salmon you eat! i'm not really up on pacific salmon and fish farming, but any atlantic salmon you buy in a store is from a fish farm and you can't eat that too much... there's a lot of toxins built up in them from anti-biotics and other such things.... if you buy fresh salmon... try and avoid the grey meat close to the skin. tha'ts where it all builds up.