Mark Salkeld wrote:
>
> hi guys,
> ok, a little about myself ... now that i've jumped in the deep end of the pool
> :-)
>
> im still a relative youngster i suppose ... i'll hit the quarter century mark
> later this year ...
26 here :)
> i live in Adelaide, South Australia - a beautiful little
> city, population around 1 million. Adelaide's (and SA in general) most noted for
> its wine, churches, rapidly aging population, bad drivers :-) and its ability to
> elect one inept government after another (our current state government seems to
> be so inept, they cant even stuff things up properly (whats new)) and most
> importantly, we have the best cricket ground in the world!!
Splendid place - is it truly as intruiging a country as the tourism
office makes it out to be? (seriously, I'm toying with a long-term trip
there someday soon-ish... that, NZ, London, or Paris for ~12 months.. if
I can manage it)
Mmmm.. cricket.. I really must learn to play sometime - unfortunately,
I haven't found a cricket club in Seattle . I did manage to find a
curling club, though, so if any brin-ler's want to throw a few rocks..
> since i finished studying a couple of years ago, i've been working in a research
> lab in the Physiology Lab at Adelaide University. Our research group is
> investigating fetal growth and development, and in particular the impact of poor
> fetal development on adult life. We know alot about what happens - due to the
> many hundreds of epidemiological studies in humans, and thousands of animal
> studies, but the how (especially at the molecular level of genes and proteins
> and hormones etc) is still mostly an unknown ... which is where the lab i work
> in fits in - we're trying to examine the molecular mechanisms involved in the
> development and early post natal life of the fetal adrenal gland. (its a small
> lab - just myself and my supervisor at the moment ... and if anyone from the
> Australian National Health and Medical Research Council is reading - we need
> more money please, so we can employ some more people, or get some slaves (oops,
> i meant students, hehe) in !! :-) )
Wow. Another highly talented person joining a highly talented list :)
I was a technical theatre major (if you ever need to know the difference
between Bongo Blue and Steel Blue, in terms of tone, flavor, usage,
wavelength or candlepower, I'm you're go-to guy), went to cooking school
for a semester but left before it completely killed my love of cooking,
and then a friend said, "Hey, you've got the Internet on your computer,
right?" Well, that was 1995 - and I've been "doing that Internet thing"
ever since. :)
> noticed that occasionally something relevent to Brin sneaks in on this list :-)
> although reading about all the other stuff going is lots of fun too!
What?? Who let that happen?
-jeffrey "can't remember the last time he replied to a DB thread that
didn't involve Oracle or Berkley" miller-
