What's this guy's story?

[Teflon Billy]

I still don't know where that came from - Nikhil's fertile imagination nonwithstanding. I just want to point out that according to one of those internet Quiz websites (Spark?) I am the *least* gay person you know. By a wide margin.

"Not that there's antyhing wrong with that..."

 

[The_Universe]

"Not that there's antyhing wrong with that..."

Of course! Just not my cup of tea.

 

[Teflon Billy]

Of course! Just not my cup of tea.

It's from a Seinfeld episode, sorry

 

[The_Universe]

It's from a Seinfeld episode, sorry

I know - that's what I was referring to in the original post.

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

D'oh! Which one? I'm a bit of a dinophile myself; I've trained myself to more or less read the technical literature even. I know Bakker's theories pretty well. His biggest fault is that he's too much of a showman and wannabe cowboy, but most of his theories are a lot more mainstream than he pretends.

He has this new theory that ceratosaurs were aquatic because he claims to have found fossilized fish scales in a ceratosaur nest. I've googled for this, but haven't found it online. But he told this to my friend (who went on a dig as a photographer) and swears it'll revolutionize the way we look at ceratosaurs.

And while he's quite a character, he at least makes stodgy old paleontologist think, if only to disprove him!

 

[cuteasaurus]

I'm indecisive- it's taken me a couple hours before I could decide if I wanted to post on this thread and if so, what to say. I typed up a bunch of different things and have picked a few "impt" points:

I get bored easily. I read once that dolphins won’t perform the same tricks in the same way and the same order for very long before they refuse and that kind of boredom was a sign of intelligence. My friends tell me it’s a sign of ADD.

It takes me awhile to let ppl “close” to me. Seriously, a long time. It usually takes at least a month before I’m able to let my guard down, though ironically that doesn’t mean I’m at a lack for “friends.”

I let myself get pushed around in my personal life but am a lot more assertive in the “professional” world. I attribute this, at least in large part, to my “two personalities.” Very few ppl have seen my “super-silly” side and those that have probably don’t know how “lucky” (or not as the case may be…) they are.

I don't have a "type" when it comes to men, but even though I'm straight...I do have a "type" when it comes to females. Angelina Jolie is my Favorite and Claudia Black, Adriana Lima, and Alicia Hall round out what I consider some of the most beautiful women in the world.

In hindsight, I had all the makings of someone who would like RPGs. I was the “DM” for my sisters when we would play Barbies (yeah, that’s right- the dolls). And, in 4th grade, my friend Dan gave me this set of colored pens “to hold on to since he couldn’t fit them all in his box” that I would use to create colored maps of different worlds. If only I had known then about DnD…

I didn't actually begin to play until college and when I did start it was because my then-boyfriend (now fiance) and our friends played. I was pretty sure I wouldn't like it because the only other girl who hung out with us had tried it and quit.

I’ve always been really successful at “school” and luckily (yes luckily) I turned down an offer to go to a prestigious college to go to a state school. I met my fiancé at college, though I knew who he was previously since he was a “debating legend.” We’ve been dating now for almost 4 ½ years. We had hoped to get married this August, but medical school conspired against me. Since we’ve started dating a LOT of our friends have met their SOs, gotten engaged, and gotten married. It’s a little frustrating, but I count myself lucky to have found the person I’ll “end up with” so early in life.

Ok, that's enough "personal babble" for awhile...

 

[Desdichado]

He has this new theory that ceratosaurs were aquatic because he claims to have found fossilized fish scales in a ceratosaur nest. I've googled for this, but haven't found it online. But he told this to my friend (who went on a dig as a photographer) and swears it'll revolutionize the way we look at ceratosaurs.

And while he's quite a character, he at least makes stodgy old paleontologist think, if only to disprove him!

Yeah, that's the showman and cowboy in him. He does like to make outrageous statements from time to time. His book Dinosaur Heresies was kinda ironic, though--by the time he published it (1986?) his characterization of the paleontological stodgy "old guard" was 10-15 years out of date; he was railing against ideas that hadn't been accepted in a long time. He also put words in some folks' mouths--the name of the bone histologist from Italy escapes me at the moment, but he notably did not agree with the details that Bakker attributed to him.

The idea of aquatic ceratosaurs sounds ludicrous to me; presumably by ceratosaurs he means Ceratosaurus nasicornis as "ceratosaurs" is an extremely broad classification. And if he does mean C. nasicornis that's a bit ironic, as he used the fact that the Cleveland-Lloyd Quarry (and the Morrison Formation in general) were very dry climates as part of his argument that sauropods couldn't be the aquatic floaters that they were formerly assumed to be. Now ceratosaurs in this same climate are supposed to be obligatory piscevores? I have no doubt that if a big dead fish washed up on the bank of a river or wadi that a ceratosaur wouldn't mind having a bite of it, but that's not a particularly telling observation.

Lookit; I've slipped into lecturing mode. Sorry.

 

[cuteasaurus]

Lookit; I've slipped into lecturing mode. Sorry.

Don't be sorry...I LOVE dinosaurs.

 

[Hijinks]

I'm a 30 year old woman who lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

I was born in Bangkok, Thailand and lived in Athens, Greece for 3 years, Monrovia, Liberia for 2 years, and Nicosia, Cyprus for a year and a half, all before I was 18. I've been to Syria, Egypt, England, Germany, Guam, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. Now I'm in Iowa

I took a while to get through college because there was no money coming from the parental units, and so I worked two jobs and went to school part-time to get my AA from a community college, then transferred to a private Catholic college, where they most definitely did not appreciate my writing a bachelor's thesis on Dracula and Sex Role Anxieties of the Victorian Age.

I play D&D with my boyfriend and his friends (well, my friends now too!). I'm very much a homebody and I like to stay inside and watch movies and play EverQuest. I broke my back 10 years ago, so my physical mobility is limited. I'm terrified of boats and open water, and bees (don't know why).

I'd like to get married and have kids someday, and just be a boring midwestern soccer mom. Till then, though, I'm just a crazy cat lady (I have two that are my closest friends).

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

I have Dinosaur Heresies and it's a good read. You're a bit further up the technical knowledge scale than I am, but I agree with you 100%. And yup, it's C. nasicornis and others in the genus he's referring to.