Monday, July 5, 2010

How you know you're working in a science field.

1) The titles to figures you create go on for paragraphs that are bigger than the figures themselves.

"'20th Century North American monsoon summer precipitation ratio ensemble - Run 1'

'Hmm.  That doesn't cover it, what about..'

'20th Century A1B model scenario North American monsoon summer precipitation ratio averaged from 1979-2000 ensemble scatterplot - Run 1'

'Nope, still doesn't cover it..'

'20th Century A1B model scenario North American monsoon ratio of average summer to average total precipitation taken over a 21 year mean between 1979-2000 for a 24 climate model ensemble scatter plotted with comparison to observation - Run 1'

2 hours and 17 paragraphs later... 'HEY!  This would make a great paper!'"

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