glorious geekdom

it's great when you find something that really gets you going - something that lights your fire and makes you wanna sing it out to the world. i had one of those moments yesterday! it involved...ergh...writing coded population models and fiddling around with maps in gis. Everyone else talked about outside dirty things like catching ducks and banding things and jabbing birds with big needles while graeme and i hung out in the kitchen with imaginary numbers and beta distributions and geeked our little hearts out. It was so much fun and, the best bit, we have pretty much solved an entire chapter of my thesis already - i just have to plug in the numbers!!