INTRODUCING... our New Neighbor in Nerdville

KareNin

This is the thread especially created for Thoughtful Observer and anyone else who is new to the Village of Nerds (at least posting-wise).

Please, tell us all about yourself; whatever you're comfortable sharing. And--Welcome!!
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KareNin · Posted: Mon 17 Dec, 2007 11:07 pm Post subject:

Well... THAT was a huge success!

Binky likes spaghetti. She told me shortly before she disappeared from the face of the earth. OH! Not in person, of course! In an email! She is NOT in my basement, I tell you!!
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Momma Snider · Joined: 14 Aug 2002 Posts: 6529

Well, if you find out she IS in your basement, get her upstairs and make her decorate your Christmas tree! And feed her some spaghetti.

Card · Posted: Tue 18 Dec, 2007 11:44 am Post subject:

I'm not new, but maybe I'll participate.

Um. I am 29 and a female. Um. I like to play volleyball and all manner of sport-like activities, even though I'm not very good at most of them. I like to eat sushi. I am a little bit lazy. I dislike that Dell company. I enjoy reading stuff on ericdsnider.com.

Yeah.

Thoughtful Observer · Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Posts: 13

Wow, I feel so special! A whole thread created just for me! This is the happiest day of my life (whipes away a tear).

Anyway, now that that is out of my system, I'm 24, I live in Connecticut, I am a consultant doing chemical hazard communication. That means I write MSDS for products (including wood, WD-40, paper, experimental chemicals used to make circuit boards, the raw materials for false teeth, and lots of other stuff). I am in graduate school studying Industrial Hygiene and I am graduating in June. I have a cat names Bast who is 18 lbs and has his own myspace page. I read ericdsnider.com at work instead of actually, um, you know, working. I read a lot. I sing and play piano. I travel a lot. I can speak Spanish. I was raised UCC, but when I was little I confused it with LDS on those ads that ran in the 80s and 90s (I don't know how, I think it was the whole "Church of Jesus Christ" as opposed to "United Church of Christ"). I'm not religious anymore, though I still love Christmas music and the whole Christmas season. I'm very excited to be part of the message board, and I hope that everyone else who joins will feel as welcomed as I have, and introduce themselves on this thread. If anyone has any questions about chemical hazards, feel free to ask!

Momma Snider · Joined: 14 Aug 2002 Posts: 6529

Who knew there was a major called Industrial Hygiene???

Welcome, Thoughtful! And I still wonder if the nasty taste on my keyboard is an actual Chemical Hazard, the mention of which is what brought on your first posting.

Thoughtful Observer · Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Posts: 13

If you really want to know, you could do a swab and have it analyzed, but that would be really expensive. I recommend unplugging the keyboard and cleaning it (that's the safe answer). Just don't lick it. That's how ancient alchemists used to identify chemicals - let's say some of them met very unpleasant ends. Which is how we know that cyanide tastes like bitter almonds (I think someone got that out right before they died). Very Happy

Lowdoggy Dogg · Joined: 21 Aug 2003 Posts: 1619 Location: Gatortown, FL

Like how cops in the movies can always tell what drug it is by tasting it.

I always wondered if that was something you had to go through in police academy, like getting tasered.
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AdamOndi · Posted: Tue 18 Dec, 2007 04:07 pm Post subject:

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Karenins_SuperSon · Posted: Wed 19 Dec, 2007 11:33 am Post subject:

Unless your name is Serpico.
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KMD · Joined: 06 Sep 2007 Posts: 948

I had a friend in college who was a geology major, and he used to lick rocks all the time, to figure out what type they were. Don't remember any specifics, just that he was planning on making licking rocks a part of his career.

shrff · Joined: 21 Aug 2003 Posts: 449 Location: Gilbert, AZ

I often lick objects I think may be bone. Bone sticks to your tongue, and other stuff doesn't. I have licked the bones of a 2,000 year old woman, and the bones of an 8,000 year old rabbit, along with a host of many others.

I am happy to note that I am an archaeologist rather than a fetishist with a narrow perspective.
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ImAdhis · Joined: 15 Oct 2003 Posts: 2822 Location: In a happy state!

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quidscribis · Posted: Thu 20 Dec, 2007 03:32 am Post subject:

Just thought I'd say that I'm really enjoying this thread. Smile

It has me amused. Very Happy

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Thoughtful Observer · Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Posts: 13

Funny fact - I used to be an archeologist before I was an Industrial Hygienest (I know I'm kind of young to have 2 careers, but I switched over when I realized I couldn't make money as an archeologist). I've used the tongue test on bone as well, though it took me awhile before I would do so (the whole fear of contaminants thing). Shrff - where have you been on digs?

KareNin · Posted: Thu 20 Dec, 2007 10:57 am Post subject:

I gotta put on my glasses. I read that as: "Shrff-where have you been on drugs?"
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shrff · Joined: 21 Aug 2003 Posts: 449 Location: Gilbert, AZ

I was on drugs from the tail end of 1999 to about mid-2001. Those were the days where the Vicodin flowed like wine as I continued to play football at BYU despite a serries of crippling back injuries. There is a direct correlation between my undergraduate GPA and my use of prescription pain killers.

Most of my archaeological fieldwork has been in the Southwestern U.S.A. My MA and associated work were in the Fremont in Utah, along with some Great Basin work in Nevada and some Virgin Anasazi and Kayenta work in Southern Utah.

My dissertation sites are located in Central AZ in the archaeological region formerly thought of as Southern Sinagua. I've also done quite a bit of work in the Hohokam area in the last three years. In fact, I'm supposed to be writing up my most recent excavation on the ASU campus right now!

Where did you go to school and where have you worked T.O.? It's not too often that I meet a fellow Dig Bum.
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