Tanada wrote:
Hey, I resemble that remark. Actually, I'm noted for posting polls and asking unusual questions of everyone in here. Pam, this is a good thread. You brought several lurkers out of the woodwork. :o) -- Marina, Frank and Nikki marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki |
badwilson wrote:
"Victor Martinez" wrote in message ... jmcquown wrote: I'll help! And I promise not to spit the tastings on anyones shoes! Spit? Bad Jill, bad! Victor, who knows that's how it's supposed to be done, but who also thinks wasting alcohol is as close to a sin as he believes... I totally agree! I never spit. Dennis and I have had some great times touring the wineries in Margaret River (the town we're planning to move to). The best way to avoid getting too drunk is to eat some tim tams between tastings. Mmmm, wine and tim tams :-) Wine and Tim Tams? Gah, waste of good Tim Tams. |
jmcquown wrote:
Irulan wrote: I'm a retired psychiatric nurse. Jazz's mama This explains why you are owned by cats... as far as I can tell they all require psychiatric care :) I always thought the cats provided it. Why do you think I have so many? |
In article , Helen Wheels
wrote: Howard Berkowitz wrote: In article , Helen Wheels wrote: Tanada wrote: Ok, I'm curious. What does everyone in here do for tuna money? Well my job title is still "programmer", but I'm really more of a database person, working in public health/epidemiology research at a university. I work on several projects, but the one that takes up most of my time is maintaining followup data on people who've taken part in a rather long-running series of community health studies which started back in 1966. In a ghoulish mood I've been known to describe chronic disease research as "well we get all these people to fill in questionnaires and have their height, weight and blood pressure measured... then we wait patiently for them to die of something interesting." Is your project similar to the US Framingham or Nurses' studies, or does it have interesting differences? Framingham is probably the one we're most often compared to; our study is on a similar scale, but ours was originally intended as a series of cross-sectional surveys of a single town's population, whereas Framingham was always intended to collect data on the same original cohort over time. But since the numbers of people moving into and out of our town were relatively small, we ended up collecting data on many of the same people over the years anyway, and since our mortality and hospital admissions followup is no longer limited to residents of that town, we have become more of a cohort study like Framingham after all. I guess the one thing we have that the USA-based studies don't is that we're able to access full hospital admissions history data for all our subjects. It's mandatory for all hospitals in the state to provide that data to the state government health department, who do release the data to researchers. We are hoping that in the not-too-distant future it will be possible to get similar access to prescribed medications data for Australian cohort study participants. Technically it's quite easy, since almost all prescribed drugs used in Australia are provided through the national pharmaceutical benefits scheme. The ethical and privacy issues are, quite rightly, being debated at the moment. (and I'm only reluctant to name the actual study I work for because they probably don't want the world to know what a goofball they have managing their data!) If it would be useful, contact me privstely on some work I've done on sanitizing patient records for research use. |
Tanada wrote: Ok, I'm curious. What does everyone in here do for tuna money? I know we have some, ok a lot, of computer geeks, educators (or what passes for one) and so forth. You don't have to be any more specific than you want, but I confess to being extremely curious. If you're currently out of work, you don't have to say so, just list your career field. I am a Substitute Teacher for Cumberland Co. North Carolina, married to a Blackhawk mechanic/inspector who is medically retired from the US army. Pam S. I "work" as secretary for my DH, though an awful lot of my time is actually spent playing with the office cats, Ozzy and Tiger. ------ Krista |
"Helen Wheels" wrote in message ... badwilson wrote: "Victor Martinez" wrote in message ... jmcquown wrote: I'll help! And I promise not to spit the tastings on anyones shoes! Spit? Bad Jill, bad! Victor, who knows that's how it's supposed to be done, but who also thinks wasting alcohol is as close to a sin as he believes... I totally agree! I never spit. Dennis and I have had some great times touring the wineries in Margaret River (the town we're planning to move to). The best way to avoid getting too drunk is to eat some tim tams between tastings. Mmmm, wine and tim tams :-) Wine and Tim Tams? Gah, waste of good Tim Tams. Hah! You only say that because you don't drink, Helen ;-) -- Britta Sandpaper kisses, a cuddle and a purr. I have an alarm clock that's covered in fur! Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album |
badwilson wrote:
"Helen Wheels" wrote in message ... badwilson wrote: "Victor Martinez" wrote in message ... jmcquown wrote: I'll help! And I promise not to spit the tastings on anyones shoes! Spit? Bad Jill, bad! Victor, who knows that's how it's supposed to be done, but who also thinks wasting alcohol is as close to a sin as he believes... I totally agree! I never spit. Dennis and I have had some great times touring the wineries in Margaret River (the town we're planning to move to). The best way to avoid getting too drunk is to eat some tim tams between tastings. Mmmm, wine and tim tams :-) Wine and Tim Tams? Gah, waste of good Tim Tams. Hah! You only say that because you don't drink, Helen ;-) This is true. There are still plenty of vices left for me though. |
Krista wrote:
Tanada wrote: Ok, I'm curious. What does everyone in here do for tuna money? I know we have some, ok a lot, of computer geeks, educators (or what passes for one) and so forth. You don't have to be any more specific than you want, but I confess to being extremely curious. If you're currently out of work, you don't have to say so, just list your career field. I am a Substitute Teacher for Cumberland Co. North Carolina, married to a Blackhawk mechanic/inspector who is medically retired from the US army. Pam S. I "work" as secretary for my DH, though an awful lot of my time is actually spent playing with the office cats, Ozzy and Tiger. ------ Krista Now *that* is a job I could appreciate! The playing with the office cats, of course :) Jill |
"Helen Wheels" wrote in message ... badwilson wrote: "Helen Wheels" wrote in message ... badwilson wrote: "Victor Martinez" wrote in message ... jmcquown wrote: I'll help! And I promise not to spit the tastings on anyones shoes! Spit? Bad Jill, bad! Victor, who knows that's how it's supposed to be done, but who also thinks wasting alcohol is as close to a sin as he believes... I totally agree! I never spit. Dennis and I have had some great times touring the wineries in Margaret River (the town we're planning to move to). The best way to avoid getting too drunk is to eat some tim tams between tastings. Mmmm, wine and tim tams :-) Wine and Tim Tams? Gah, waste of good Tim Tams. Hah! You only say that because you don't drink, Helen ;-) This is true. There are still plenty of vices left for me though. Yeah? Is one of them Tim Tams? ;-) -- Britta Sandpaper kisses, a cuddle and a purr. I have an alarm clock that's covered in fur! Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album |
jmcquown wrote:
Sherry wrote: Ok, I'm curious. What does everyone in here do for tuna money? I know we have some, ok a lot, of computer geeks, educators (or what passes for one) and so forth. Before desktop publishing was ever heard of, I was a "typesetter." There's a word you don't hear anymore. LOL I learned programming on punch cards. Did you ever drop a bunch of them? Jill ---also a recluse -- Adrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) also a recluse for now A house is not a home, without a cat. |
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