Re: paleonet GSA 2002 Session on Linking Research and Education

[Frank Holterhoff <frank@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not a professional paleontologist, and I know little about the joys
of the money chase, so I feel highly qualified (lol) to respond:

  1.  I don't think anybody should be shot for speaking his/her mind. 
What was that saying about "I disagree with what you say..."?  (BTW, I
have no opinion on this personally, due to the above.)

  2.  Reading the first announcement from this point of view
(ignorance), the topic sounds subjectively like something that nobody
could object to, yet there are obviously factors that I (and surely
others) are unaware of.  Your comment, however delivered, is perfectly
on topic, contributing a valuable alternate point of view, not a
sidetrack.

  3.  How was the pate'?

F

Andrew Rindsberg wrote:
> 
> Dear Paul Harnik and others,
> 
> It was a half-baked comment intended as a private message to a collaborator,
> and was not intended as a negative comment on your session. (Which,
> actually, I would like to be able to attend.) I apologize for sending it to
> the whole group.
> 
> My collaborator and I have managed to obtain some seed funding. Now I
> perceive that such work may become better funded nationally, but I foresee
> difficulties, as a state survey staff member, in competing for such funds
> with academics. It is frustrating to have vision but not be in a position to
> implement it.
> 
> Unfortunately, I have sidetracked what should be an interesting discussion
> by doing the virtual equivalent of falling into the buffet. Please, let's
> return to the topic at hand.
> 
> Andrew
> 
> Andrew K. Rindsberg
> Writing on my own, not as a representative of an agency

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