It’s a special kind of irony that would motivate you, mswas, to take any other poster to task for offensive behavior in GD.
Calling her a narcissist while you’re doing it is overkill.
This sort of stuff amuses me. I’ve been outside and taken a breath since the majority of this thread was played out. 
Jimmy Way to represent for the alliance. ;p
Just an FYI, I am not going to take further responses to this thread very seriously.
So this was drama for the sake of drama, huh? Serious business indeed.
Heh, maybe, or maybe you are posting in a thread that’s played itself out and are a Johnny come lately. Of course they are not mutually exclusive.
I could say why I started the thread, but that’s already been amply explained above and you can read it for yourself, and why re-ignite it with her? She wants to move on.
I have no particular reason to comply with your timeline. If I did that, I would be complicit in your intarweb drama, instead of a largely disinterested observer posting occasionally while crunching numbers.
My schedule. Not yours.
I see the level of your disinterest in your third post in 20 minutes.
Hmm… how is Magellan doing these days?
Oh, he’s being a bit of a bitch. I think it’s ‘that time’ you know? I wanted to go see Mary Poppins, and he wanted to go see Wicked. Even though we ended up doing what HE wants (as usuuuaaal) he was upset that I even wanted to see Mary Poppins in the first place.
Building phylogenetic trees is an automated process. I assure you, after I get about, say, 10,000 or so trees, you won’t be hearing from me in this thread again.
Unless, of course, I feel like making fun of you for being a drama queen again. That’s always good times.
Sounds good.
I’m interested in your phylogenetic trees work though.
Cool. I’m trying to establish trees for a couple of endemic species of Dalea that occur around here. The work for the widespread species that live in the prairies of the Midwest and the Southwest has already been done. My species are restricted to highly specialized rock outcrop communities in the Southeast. Hell, one of the species was only discovered in 1989, and only lives on 400 acres in central Alabama.
Anyway, that’s the boring stuff. What’s related to what, and how closely, is of interest, but there’s not a ton you can do with it.
What I’m really interested in is the population genetics of these species. How inbred are they? Are they, genetically speaking, on the decline? Most highly restricted species are not terribly stable, for obvious reasons, and these aren’t particularly common, even where they’re endemic.
The site where they’re found, incidentally, is absolutely remarkable. Along with this species, 8 or so others were found which had never been described by science. Also, another 60 rare or endangered species are found there, as well as one species which was “rediscovered” after having been thought to be extinct since 1830.
This is one of the less endemic of my species, although it’s still restricted to limestone outcrops. Note the bedrock in the background.
Try a compromise: How about My Fair Lady?
The reasons are not obvious to me, I don’t know that much about genetics.
Nice. Sounds like you really enjoy your work.
How is that a compromise? There’s no magick in that one.
Oh, it’s for the same reason that small, inbred populations of humans aren’t particularly stable. With limited genetic mixing, lots of harmful, recessive traits tend to crop up, which leads to a certain amount of mortality, which means smaller population size, which means even less new genetic variation, etc.
The other thing, of course, is that with few members of a species located in a very small area, anything local that happens (fire, logging, quarrying, etc.) tends to adversely affect the entire species.
Yeah, it’s fascinating, but by the time my PhD is done, I can see the novelty wearing pretty thin. 
I guess the real problem is that I don’t know anything about how plants breed. I need to learn more about that.
Right, that makes sense.
LOL, sounds like a quandary. Is there an exit point that you can get into? Any paths it opens up in order to keep it fresh?
Cool.
Yeesh, you guys are talking about the wrong hoot owl in here. Back to Rubystreak please!
P.S. That Rubystreak sure is a skanky canker on the ass of the SDMB.
Damn dude, I’ll stick with ‘has a bit of an ego’, I don’t think I want to go THAT far. Generally I think she’s alright.
Damn. I miss all the fun. 