User:Rks1

G'day,

I'm a researcher in the studies of global warming although only recently so. Climatology is my particular scientific interest, specifically the flips between glaciations and interglacial periods. I wondered if this took three years or three hundred years and what sort of world would it have been like during the change from the last glaciaton 11,232 years ago and the interglacial period 11,229 years ago. The dates are a feeble attempt at a joke by the way.

I used to be someone that had a reputation, enjoyed being the top of his field, and was very modest about it as well. My specialty was consulting in legal matters generally relating to medicine, law, engineering, and ... well pretty much any profession where you could stuff up or allegedly stuff up. My task was to get to the bottom of an incident and explain what really happened, why, and who was responsible. That meant field work and gathering a great deal of evidence, just in case someone would be stubborn and not accept my findings and the matter ended up in court. I thought it was the best job in the world.

I also played with computers, starting in 1974, learned programming in 30 odd languages and still build the odd computer or create a minor database. It seemed that no matter what I did, computers were just starting in that field and I would always be the one put in charge of them. That included my consulting but I didn't mind. I like computers even when they cost me a staggering $5,000, had 32k of RAM expanded out to a magnificent 48k of RAM and 100k floppies.

I have an interest in chronic pain too and moderated a pain site for a while. I'm in a wheelchair and so have an interest in wheelchairs and their modification. I fly rc planes with my kids and help them in driving RC tanks or cars or trucks (I import a few of them in a rather bad attempt to make some money). That's actually why I research studies on global warming rather than participate in my former life. Pain really does suck, big time, but hey I'm still alive and have a wonderful family.

That's enough, probably way too much.

Richard