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I was thinking earlier, I know a bit about a lot of stuff but I'd like to have a specialist subject, I suppose mine is the building industry but that's rather dull! I'd love to say to folk I'm a specialist in nuclear fragmentation of snail shells or such the like ....
Currently
Simulation Modelling & Leading authority in specific software package in Australia
Previously
bit of Nuclear Decomissioning
Air pollution monitoring
Making Dishwasher tablets
Bike stuff doesn't count, I'm guessing?
Perhaps the Scottish explosives industry, then. I wrote a book on it and everything 😉
http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/1034401-explosive-scotland
[s]Cycling[/s]
Pedantry.
Groucho Marx quotes.
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Used to be The Northern European Romantic Tradition in Art, but I'm probably a bit rusty on that these days.
Guess now it would be Innovation and promoting Creativity in Teaching and Learning.
7th-century cosmology.
Seriously.
Teh Ladies.
Cake
beer, rugby league and bikes.......that's all. 8)
Cat Whispering
I know why you have to put a £1 coin in a shopping trolley.
7th century cosmology 😯
That is exactly what I'm talking about!
However, I'm sure willing listeners are thin on the ground...
Yes, but the unwilling listeners are always a laugh. Someone once asked me what I was writing about. I said 'you don't want to know'. He said 'yes I do. Go on tell me.' Then the flood gates opened.
He never came near me again, and I see him fairly frequently. 😀
From my few years on here I have ascertained
Stoner: all things built with a small care for cost but done right whatever the cost
Mc moonter: wood, collection, and building with
Deadly darcey: floors
Ernie: wasted in the trade and should be in politics
Hora: teh ladies also
Cfh: planes/flying/airports
porn
Noble Gas geochemistry of Icelandic basalts
Information Architecture
Agile Project Management
Drupal web applications.
Rachel
Supermarket construction.
Punk.
My job title is medical researcher - but that doesnt really reflect what I do
But id say my specialist subject was knitting (I also do freelance work as a mathematical knitting pattern checker)
Basically im a bit of a geek - and proud of it 🙂
Recently, the legalities of image sharing on social media networks.
Financial modelling of commercial property transactions and developments. Specialist enough to do make a living of it as a freelance for the last 7 years or so. But it's not thrilling at dinner parties.
Increasingly my specialist subject has become the net energy content of renewable and non-renewable fuels in the domestic heating environment. Im still not very interesting at parties.
Whatever it is, it isnt concrete though, wrighty!
Design and optimisation of Microwave networks. I design and write expert systems to automate it.
Previously a bit more varied, I hold patents on Turbo Codes, Poweline systems, Coding (modems rather than SW), and a load of other stuff I've forgotten about.
Cfh: planes/flying/airports
😳 Just landed and on the Heathrow Express right now as it happens. Those post it notes don't sell themselves, you know! 😉
Oi wrighty! [b]Hardwood[/b] floors! 🙂
But I'm not that sure it'd get me onto Mastermind so I'll go with the American Civil War. I'd have to do a bit of revising but I used to know it inside out.
Similar to Rachel/allthegear, but Java based.
Would rather be an expert in 7C cosmology tbh.
1970s/early 80s motorbikes.
Quite good on Pop Master as well. Nothing useful really.
None whatsoever, I personify the stereotype of average intellect.
The VW Beetle 1954-1967.
Sadly, outside of work I don't really have any specialist knowledge. I can't be arsed for the most part.
Can general knowledge be a specialist subject? If so, that's mine. the amount of stuff that I know that I don't know I know until I'm asked is amazing...
bencooper the book sounds interesting.
What am I a specialist in?
Nothing springs to mind, I have a fair bit of work related knowledge in both my day job and my hobby job, the tyre industry and fireworks, but neither are that useful outside of the work environment.
Used to be hay meadow and chalk grassland restoration. Now nothing in particular.
The VW Beetle 1954-1967.
do you know Mister P of this parish?
[i]Used to be hay meadow and chalk grassland restoration[/i]
1) Plant grass
2) Let grass grow
Easy 😉
The VW Beetle 1954-1967.
do you know Mister P of this parish?
Not that I'm aware of!
bencooper the book sounds interesting.
Plus, if you ever want to make industrial quantities of obsolete explosives, I'm your man 😉
The VW Beetle 1954-1967.
do you know Mister P of this parish?Not that I'm aware of!
[url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/my-1965-vw-moneypit ]you may get on ;)[/url]
From a Mastermind perspective The Simpsons. Obviously nothing to do with my job.
Really, Njee...? I had no idea.
All those rides with wasted opportunities for character impressions...
🙂
20th Century British Classical Guitar Music.
I'm an absolute hoot at parties!
Satellite communications
Birds of the western palearctic
God I sound so dull!
Doom.
HMP Slade 1974-1977
James Bond 🙂
Lovely pointy mountains 🙂
erm, the uses and application of battery (and mains) operated entertainment devices for the female of the species....
Fire alarm design is probably the thing I know most about, but its my job to know.
Boxing.
I got 3 pointless answers in the Pointless final round the other day. Was ever so pleased with myself 🙂
The dialectic properties of harsh environment textiles and the incorporation of TIS functionality
Beats stoner in the dullness war at parties, yey me!
The modern French culinary art .
1) Plant grass
2) Let grass growEasy
If you want to grow grass 😀
World War II
The thoughts and voices in my head over the last [s]thirty-odd years[/s] [s]ten years[/s] [s]five minutes[/s]
What was the question?
Bob
coming up with great ideas and plans for helping others but not applying the same amount of thought to myself
ohnohesback - MemberDoom.
This, and Quake.
The Renault 19 '89-'96 (particularly the 16V model). Show me any single part off one and I'll be able to tell you exactly what it is, where it's from and whether there were any other variants 😳
Useful, I know.
Sand control in deep water horizontals.
land rover (sI/II/III and 90//110) variants
Water cooled Volkswagens, (not including the LT van)
Staggeringly useful at work I can tell you.
Apocalypse Now as contemporary myth / allegory (with specific reference to Conrad's Heart of Darkness and JG Frazer's Golden Bough)
Railway infrastructure asset management systems
The life and times of Dylan Thomas
SQL
I don't get out much...
I recently attended a course in marine archeology. During the course, various slides were shown with the question "anyone know what this is?"
I surprised myself (and the people I was with) with an ability to identify military shipwrecks eg HMS Royal Oak from a sonar side scan, HMS M1 from a surface photo and X-Craft from the remains on a beach.
People regularly talk to me in depth about steam trains. I am not an expert but do tend to nod knowingly so they keep talking. If half of what I've been told had sunk in, I'd be expert.
Digital diagnostic imaging - pretty sh*t hot there if I do say so myself.
EDIT - and Start Trek The Original Series, not something i would admit without the veil of anonymity kindly provided by t'internet
Mine would be Procrastination, Displacement Activities and Low Motivation. If only I could get round to filling in that contender application form.
Andulusian Lizard Knotting.
But the season is short so most of the time i just fall back on my significant prevarication skills.........
apparently metric equvilents of imperial sizes.
Chairs. I'm a chair geek. I think they appeal to my inner sitter-down.
Spaceships (real ones - none of this Star-trek stuff)
know a thing or two about rockets too
Piston engined aircraft before 1945.
I could (OK have) bored for England on that subject
oh and, having owned several Italian motorcycles, I'm now fairly proficient in
12V motorcycle electrics
The legal aspects of child and adolescent psychiatry in England and Wales. My 'other' job is teaching a class at university on this once a year so I suppose that is my specialist subject.
oh, and Bowie. 😀
A few years ago it would have been british motorbikes from 1955 - 1980-ish.
I also used to know a bit about screw threads and engineeringy type things.
I'm old, so I can't remember anything about anything these days!
As a 'doing' rather than 'knowing' thing: I'm oft complemented on my van packing abilities. Got a contract at the moment to tour an exhibition that has over 200 delicate components. I can get it into a swb transit - packed to the roof with barely cubic inch to spare. But it'll only go in if I pack it, when I subcontract the job I have to give the subcontractee a 14ft luton.
Did you play a lot of Tetris as a kid?
Work wise, I know far too much about how Symantec product licensing works.
Outside work, nothing of any use, I just tend to retain information, so I guess general knowledge!
The mode of life of Upper Cretaceous (Chalk) echinoids. This has proved to be of no use to me whatsoever.
Mountainbike tracks and trails of Morzine and district- I have regular requests for.
Soft furnishings, mainly curtains.
A conversation stopper if ever there was one.
Hora: teh ladies also
Just spotted this. I think you'll find Kim in North Korea has a missile named after me the 'anti-Poon device'.
Not a specialist in anything.
But have a good knowledge of the construction industry.
An amounting knowledge of the nature of the UK.
Becoming very knowledgeable about apple based products.
Pretty good knowledge of the female anatomy, bordering on being a specialist.
The construction and use of most type of archery bow, from the bronze-age onwards.