So does this mean you’re above them in the pecking order?
Did you have them shot down?
Nah. One is a museum taxonomist who co-authored the last volume of the 4-volume Birds of the Republic of Panama. I’m sure he knows more about the technical aspects, but I don’t think he knows the birds in the field as well as I do. The other is Bob Ridgely, who wrote the Guide to the Birds of Panama. He probably knows Panama birds in the field better than anyone alive, and also knows the technical literature, but for the last twenty years or so has worked mainly in South America, especially Ecuador.
Hey Alto,
As a fellow New Yorker and medieval Latinist, I am very interested in your father’s work. Does he teach in NYC? If so, there’s a good chance I know him.
I’ve written a few books about some twentieth-century fiction writers, so that makes me a candidate for world’s leading expert on their work (books on these guys, particularly the areas I look at, are few or none).
One of the first threads I noticed while I was lurking here, btw, had a comment by Eve, inquiring about one of these authors. I would be more explicit, but telling the author’s name is just a step or two away from revealing my own, and I notice that Eve’s real name, and the books she’s written, seem to be common knowledge around here. As a SDMB newbie, I’m wondering if that’s okay to reveal, if that’s an anomaly, if I’m just mistaken about how common that knowledge is…
Subject: I am apparently one of the world’s leading authorities on the introduction of the English Bible into the parish churches of England (but of course!) in the 1530’s. Even if I don’t believe that myself.
Qualifications: soon to have doctorate in the subject from Oxford; conclusively won debate in the subject against Richard Rex, another leading authority; Diarmaid MacCulloch and Christopher Haigh, pretty much the “top dogs” in the study of the English Reformation, believe my dissertation contained “convincing new evidence” (MacCulloch) in the field.
Caveat: I’m still editing my thesis and I quit the field of history in semi-disgust, semi-poverty and semi-burnout.
Back in 1982, my uni research project was about testing for heteroscedasticity of error variance in wool pricing models. AFAIK nobody has published a paper on this topic since, so i guess that means
- I am still the global authority and
- nobody else gives a shit
They have me down as “Eve Gordon.” Here’s the link. A gift horse I am not looking in the moputh!
Are you related to Ruth? I loved Ruth. Oh, and the commissioner. Oh, and Gale.