Archive for February 4th, 2009
Honorifics, titles and uniforms
Posted by CyberLizard in Politics on February 4, 2009
There is a big ol’ discussion going on over at the ScienceBlogs collective over the issue of whether Jill Biden should get to use the title “Dr.” Apparently, she has a Ph. D. in Education, but newspapers think only MDs should get to be called Dr. There’s some nonsense about avoiding confusion between Ph. D.s and “real” doctors, i.e. medical doctors.
| IMHO, there is only one Doctor and he is The Doctor. |  |
As far as being recognized and avoiding confusion, let’s all just wear color coded jumpsuits, like in Star Trek. A “Doctor” would have two little pips on their collar, but you’d know if they were an MD because they’d be in a blue jumpsuit. I know that my life would be much easier if I didn’t have to think about what to wear.Of course, I would have nothing on my collar (no degree, remember?), but I would be in a bad-ass metallic silver jumpsuit ’cause I program computers and computers ROCK!!!!
Actually, I’d probably get lumped in with the Engineers and have to wear that ugly mustard yellow color.
*sigh*
Storm Talk
Posted by CyberLizard in Blogging on February 4, 2009
There is an amazing wealth of subjects out there to be geeky about. For a small subset of geeks, asking about the weather isn’t just making small talk; it’s an invitation to launch into a detailed analysis of the “thermodynamic properties of tornadic and nontornadic RFDs.” Um, okay… I’m sure that makes sense to someone out there.
This dude I know named Matt Grzych (don’t even bother trying, it’s pronounced “grish“) has just started a cool little blog called “Storm Talk“. He’s got some sort of sick fascination with spinning clouds, a.k.a. tornadoes. I’m a Florida boy; I love hurricanes, but tornadoes scare the shit out of me. Some sort of left over paranoia from childhood. Anyway, this guy will actually go chasing after tornadoes and the insane storms that produce them. Per his profile, “Rear flank downdrafts continue to interest me… so there may be lots of RFD talk in my blog. ” All right! I’m interested in rear flanks… What’s that? …I’m being told that he’s not referring to boodies. Shoot! And I was all excited to read the papers he’s published on them!
Anyway, head on over and check out the sciency coolness of some bad-ass storms at Storm Talk.
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