@MattH wrote:Actually I'm neither brilliant nor do I spend much time digging these things up, I'm just very good at using search engines. In my day job as a bioinformatician for a large pharmaceutical company I use computers to analyze vast databases looking for patterns, so in the evening using search engines to dig up factoids comes naturally to me. And I prefer web-surfing to watching TV, so the time others spend doing that I spend online. My personal laptop (I don't use the Company one for non-work-related purposes) lives on a special portable table that can be pulled right up to the living room sofa; my wife has another such tray table that can be pulled right up to her favorite chair -- though sometimes she has to displace the cat before sitting in it! Many evenings I come home to find cat fur on the keyboard of my laptop...
HA!! Good try at modesty, Matt. But you simply can't pull it off! I've read your posts and unfortunately for you, you are brilliant! 
And um ... bioinformatician for a pharmaceuticals company? Um yeah ... if that doesn't require some pretty freaking brilliance, what does???
@marty56 wrote:
I think its for people who cant do two things at once very well so to speak.
Ooooh!! Like people who can't rub their tummies and pat their heads?!
@Anonymous wrote:
@MattH wrote:Actually I'm neither brilliant nor do I spend much time digging these things up, I'm just very good at using search engines. In my day job as a bioinformatician for a large pharmaceutical company I use computers to analyze vast databases looking for patterns, so in the evening using search engines to dig up factoids comes naturally to me. And I prefer web-surfing to watching TV, so the time others spend doing that I spend online. My personal laptop (I don't use the Company one for non-work-related purposes) lives on a special portable table that can be pulled right up to the living room sofa; my wife has another such tray table that can be pulled right up to her favorite chair -- though sometimes she has to displace the cat before sitting in it! Many evenings I come home to find cat fur on the keyboard of my laptop...
HA!! Good try at modesty, Matt. But you simply can't pull it off! I've read your posts and unfortunately for you, you are brilliant!
And um ... bioinformatician for a pharmaceuticals company? Um yeah ... if that doesn't require some pretty freaking brilliance, what does???
Thanks, actually becoming a bioinformatician mostly required being a student for too much of my life, undergrad in engineering followed by a doctorate in biology and then postdoctoral work in genetics and medical informatics at a major medical school, all of which has left me knowing enough biology so the computer specialists think I'm a biologist and enough computer science so the biologists think I'm a computer expert. Actually the main thing I do is figure out how to translate each specialty's language into what the other side can understand.