fridgemagnet: I am a programmer for a pharms company, producing output based on study data for clinical R&D trials.
Hey, which one? I’ve got a friend who’s a chemical engineer for 3M – was involved with the new herpes gel, now onto something else. PM if you don’t feel like getting specific in public.
BioK9: Gandy Dancer. Right now, in this weather, it rules. We have a form to fill out if we need to take a nap on the clock.
Odd – one of my very first internet (actually, CompuServe, pre-net for me) friends was a gandy dancer. A former one, actually – became some sort of businessman, moved to Switzerland.
Jefe de jefelaces: I'm a strategic planner at an advertising agency. My job is to understand the culture and psychology of product choice, and how to change it.
Dude – how do you get that gig?
Illmatic: I work on grants assessment and management
So, uh, how’m I doing?
vividis23: I work for a small land surveying company, mostly drawing maps on this very computer.
If you use GIS data to create maps, I might know the guy who created your software. He’s a biologist, oddly, but wound up doing this stuff because no one else was making the tools he needed to map out state parks (mainly to track invasive plant species, I think).
Bobossboy: Grant, does your rag specialize in the rum and uncanny, or is the unexplained just a subset of a broader sensationalistic focus? Could you tell us more about Reagan's predictions?
Well, the basic remit is “marvels and wonders” I suppose – stories of survival, kids with strange diseases, occasional sensational crimes. We also have a largish medical info page (geared for our readers, who are mostly over 60) and a page or two dedicated to older celebrities, but only in a puff-piecey “where are they now?” kind of way. No scandals, no gossip. I used to ghost write a weird science column, but that is, alas, no more. Those stories do turn up elsewhere in the magazine… mostly rewrites from New Scientist, Nature, and Fortean Times. Right now I’m doing a piece on Atlantis – various sites that could be the sunken city Plato described.
Reagan… he was a visionary president, you know. All presidents have to deal with predictions of future events, but his insight was uncanny and eerily accurate, even now, 20 years later. A file left to his successors was recently discovered in a small writing table in a study located off the Oval Office. Blah. Blah. Blah. If you want to read his actual predictions, it’ll be on the stands the first week of July. In short, now is not the time to holiday in the Middle East, kay? |
