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You Is Smart!
During a discussion with a friend I was lauding the praises of Ricochet (always hoping to get new members) and told her the members were an assorted collection of fun personalities and some of the smartest folks around. She asked why I held that ‘opinion’. I told her it’s not an opinion. That we literally have rocket scientists amongst the top professionals from medical, legal and academia. She replied, “I know a lot of dumb lawyers”. I tacitly had to agree.
So I came home and jumped on The Google to reinforce my point and found this at Alexa.com. Not that everyone who’s gone to graduate school is brilliant, but…
Everyone, please welcome the newest Ricochet member @LisaKoers.
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Welcome, Lisa K.,
The Technical Admin around here is Max. If you run into an issue with Ricochet, you can go to the group “Bug Reports” and state your problem. Either a member will give you good advice, or Max will investigate your glitch.
Sometimes Max runs surveys of the members. A couple of years ago, he asked about education level, and it turned out that two thirds of Ricochet have graduate degrees. So, pretty highly credentialed, whether or not “smart” applies.
Also a couple of years ago, member Bereket Kelile did some investigative work on what was the source that got members into Ricochet.
http://ricochet.com/archives/who-are-the-ricochet-watchers/
Here’s hoping that you are prepared to deal with a certain amount of stoopid too. We all have our specialties.
I considered adding —Just wait until college football season — but I thought it best that Lisa discover that all on her own.
The Auburn Tigers are golden, thank you very much.
One day, I’ll share my Knights of the Round Table story and you’ll feel brilliant yet again.
War eagle!
We don’t graduate; we just run out of money.
Lisa, it’s at this stage of the conversation, I remind participants that addiction is a choice; that actions have consequences; and that when you medicalize behavior, you are deferring responsibility: “It’s not my fault! I have a disease!” Baloney! It is your fault, but you have the power to change things. In fact, you are so powerful, you are the only one who can change things!
Welcome, Lisa! Any friend of Dave’s is a friend of ours ;)
The thing about Ricochet is this: Members are always getting smarter – thanks to other members. Since joining Ricochet, this musician (with a lowly bachelors degree) has learned an astounding variety of new stuff, ranging from science to pop culture, from world religions to the law, and from the reality of the street cop to the reality of pouring massive amounts of concrete.
All this from a group of people who are both thoughtful and funny. (Well, some of us are funny, at least.)
Welcome, @lisakoers!
We have rocket scientists?? Hi @lisakoers – call me FSC – my Rico friends do – look forward to learning more about you through your writing!
Some of us are just old, with life experience, grouchy, and read a lot. Welcome to Ricochet. Oh, and stay out of The Pit, they tell jokes that are off color and I haven’t the foggiest idea of what they are talking about. However, we do have The Chix Pit, which is a level or two above The Pit.
Hey now, I’m not that old. ;)
Oh yes, I’ve learned things in my old age that I would be better off not knowing, thanks to @docjay.
We all have on that score. :D
That way we can see up your skirts.
Yes, at least myself, Seawriter, and Mark W. I do space instrument/sensor design, and they are both in the GN&C/Flight dynamics business.
You beat me to it, Kay…Thanks! @lisakoers, the PIT is the after-hours speakeasy; the ChixPIT is the tearoom/wine bar – depending on the time of day, etc. Again, welcome…
At my age whats up my skirt isn’t attractive so I wear pants as do most of us. Sorry Judge M. (dirty old man) :-)
Welcome aboard.
Right now I’m poking a quartet of GPSes with a stick.
Don’t let this fact turn you off. They’re OK people in spite of their education.
The best part is that there’s no limit on the number of times you can do both.
When I’m on Ricochet you can be certain of one thing. No Pants!
Oh, crap, I better close my office door.
Someone has to decide what to put on top of the rocket. And it’s humble historians like yours truly who write about it.
We have a Pit?
We do, but don’t ask me how to find them. I get lost wandering around Ricochet.
I’m not that old.
Two out of three, still not bad….
Now now. Some of us aren’t below average. We’re just lazy.