Bricker wrote another good staff report and I am insanely jealous (Bricker, if you brag about it in my presence I will murder you with a box of oyster crackers). If I ever got a report published on the SD I’d die and go to heaven. The problem is that, while I think I know a lot of stuff about a lot of subjects, I probably don’t know anything well enough to publish a report without a good amount of research (unless Cecil gets a question about back-end Java servers running on Linux). The closest I could come would probably be Revolutionary-era US (I live in Boston, after all) or tea (I’m a tea geek).
What about you? On what subject are you enough of an expert to write a staff report with minimal research?*
(* - clearly I am no expert on grammar. I might, however, be an ace on how to over-use parenthetical statements.)
Puerto Rican history, government and politics.
Climate and geography of the northeastern Antilles.
US State Legislatures.
And hey, even when you know a subject like the back of you hand from experience, it is always useful to be able to look up supporting cites just to be sure.
Well, by definition I think I’d want to do research before I published anything as distributed as a staff report :eek:
I wrote my Master’s Thesis on the Act of Union between England and Scotland. (don’t hurt me pjen)
I’m learning more than I ever thought I would need to know about childhood autism.
I worked as a volunteer zookeeper many moons ago, when the world was flat, hope sprang eternal, I lived on ramen, and slept on my parents couch. I could probably still put something together, if a relevant question arose.
I work now for a Consumer security software company.
History of the French and Indian War and the Russian Fur Trade, quite a few different types of antique arms and firearms, and Harley-Davidson the AMF years.
Been a weather buff since the Downtown Fort Worth Tornado of 2000, and now have a decade of storm-spotting under my belt, so I’m confident that I’d be able to do one on nearly any topic related to thunderstorms, especially relating to supercells or the behavior of “pulse storms” (the type of “pop-up” storms that are the reason Floridians are pretty much trained to carry umbrellas every day in the summer).
Trap Neuter Release for cats. Hell, I could probably bore a feral cat into the trap just with my lecture.
The importance of having house pets fixed.
The difference between librarians and archivists and why us archivists have the best method.
Now…I do fancy needle work and consider myself to do expert work. I’d never consider doing a report on that because every time I go to a seminar, I always learn something.
Thinking about it, none of the above. I’m good at what I do, but no matter what it is, someone else is better and can teach me something.
