Interview the person beneath you

Which gloves: Sealskinz cold weather or Castelli Diluvio.

Castelli.

Based on experience? I've the Sealskinz gloves and think they are excellent.

Is this going to be merged with Any question answered?

No, not if people stop asking questions in it.

What makes you think they will?

Is that a rhetorical question?

Shouldn't it be answer, then question?

perhaps.. What do you think?

It should.

Or should it?

who knows?

you?

Burma.. Quiet revolution?

I think it should, but what do I know?

Aren't we all just waiting for the merge-atron to stop with the dwarves in custard?

Burma.. Quiet revolution?

Pardon?

I'll attempt to halt the mergertron..

damo. When did the urge to be a molecular biologist come upon you?

I dunno. I went to university to study Biochemistry, thought "what next?", decided I didn't want a job in the food industry or a pharma company. Wanted to do a PhD (it looked good, enzymes, DNA, UV, Sexy undergraduates hanging off me).
I don't really know, I stumbled into it without thinking. I love talking and reading about science and having nerdy conversations. DOING science isn't like this. It's 12+ hours a day, boring routine, hanging around with people who enjoy those things, far too much pressure to get the next grant, not enough pay.

I did it because I did well in exams at 18 and 21. That's how I became a Molecular Biologist. I thought it would be exciting and interesting, research shows that research is rarely this.

At nights, usually nights, usually after the recurring nightmare of "Have I done all my corrections and has my Thesis been submitted and is it all ok?" I wonder why the fuck I didn't do something more proactive about a career at a younger age.

Enlightening. Thank you damo..

I'd also advice my younger self to go to med school after the first 3 years of university.

Brave: How did you get into meeja?

^and to spell check things as well.

would you rather go down on susan boyle or david beckham?

Front or Back?

has Balki returned from his self imposed exile yet?

I'd trombone the hell out of Beckham before even contemplating a feel of Boyle's clammy flesh

^^^^ Well damo, I worked my way down to this job.. It has been a series of happen chance really and nothing I ever studied for or even aspired to. In my late teens I was a model. This lead to me be asked to present various "youth" television programmes during the 90's. These did well. I earned good money, travelled the world. While filming these I developed a keen interest in camera work and specifically camera lighting. Not have the pure driven desire to be a TV presenter I quit and fucked off to the French Alps where I meet Mrs Brave. I came back from there and pursued a career behind the camera. training as a camera assistant and sound op.. From my experience working in TV I was asked to direct and produce for the company where I was working. After three years back on location I was once again mired in the hatred of TV but knowing nothing else took my first desk job coordinating camera kits and crews. Pretty much it really.

I still loath the industry.. And in fact looking to to get out.. But I earn a decent wage and my dispassionate approach actually makes me a good negotiator..