Spring Break

[natureboy87]

The week of Spring Break has began and I have already spent two days screwing around. I need to resist the temptation and actually get some work done this week though. With the pressures of school gone, I can focus on getting papers and such done...if I can resist the temptation to procrastinate. Even with no school, I have a lot of stuff planned

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[fb_sheex]

I hope things work out! I've taken some GIS courses, and ArcGIS is a very nifty program. You'd enjoy working with it, I think.

Hang in there, I'm sure you'll get something soon. I hit lots of hiccups in my graduation plan/schedule, but I think everything is falling into place for me now. Things have an interesting way of working out like that, it seems, so I have every confidence that the same will happen for you. Hang in there. :)

[natureboy87]

I will need to learn to like GIS since it has become an important tool in wildlife management and ecology. It is a powerful mapping tool and I want to use it so bad. I would love to get into some biogeography.

Let's hope it works, we'll see and all. Hopefully these visits amount into something.

[her_instrument]

sorry, i'm doing something inappropriate and commenting on your personal LJ about something you posted in the anti-vegan community (i was just reading and have no intention to join)
http://community.livejournal.com/anti_vegan/807833.html
But I was seriously concerned by an ecology major who does not understand how eating meat requires more energy than eating plants, loss of biomass/ energy by going up trophic levels. That's a concept taught in high school ecology... what gives? (http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/606492/trophic-level)
Not to mention biomagnification/ concentration of toxins as you go up the food chain.
if you're going to advertise you ecology major, don't embarrass us ecologists, and if you bash veganism (which I do not understand at all) please make better arguments.

[natureboy87]

Really now? Well, you certainly aren't excused but I do thank you for insulting my intelligence. Of course, I understand trophic levels quite well, which my concern is mostly for predators, look what happened to many raptors because of DDT

[her_instrument]

I have my own very good reasons for being a vegan, I did not come here to discuss them, although if that is what you are asking me, I can explain it (I'm not convinced you are interested at all). I don't pretend to tell anyone what to eat (after all I don't belong to an anti-omnivore community), and my intention was not to tell you that you are a worse ecologist for being a vegan. I'm pretty sure if anyone was shoving things down someone's throat, it was you criticizing my decision about what I want to eat, in a community which does not promote communication- but that's not why I'm here

[natureboy87]

First things first, that rant (And it was a rant, if it was an educated piece I would of actually cited examples and been more formal in my writing but it was a rant and not suppose to be that way) was by in no means suppose to convert anyone or be said to a vegan. It was me blowing off steam to like minded individuals so you are responsible for your offense. What did you expect to find in a community which has a title like anti_vegan? When I do debate, I do bring the facts but this wasn't a debate but a rant

[her_instrument]

So I wasn't going to spam your post anymore, but I figure what the hell the damage is already done. You might want to take this as a warning for grad school and how crazy it makes you (I'm joking...) but I am procrastinating and broke my own rules, and looked at your Lj, and now I feel a little bad about being so snarky at you and attacking your ecologist status, you seem to really genuinely care about what you're studying, the planet etc

[natureboy87]

Well, instead of creating a whole new set of comments, I am just going to shorten everything and put it here

[dreamofshadows5]

Well, I don't want to start a fire, or a heated discussion (I didn't bother reading this whole one), but being vegetarian or vegan does not imply nutritional deficiency in these days of fortified foods and vitamin supplements, as well as the availability of a wide range of foods in many areas. Cooking with cast iron also helps. The problem, and that stereotype, arises from people not knowing how to eat properly once they become vegetarian.

[natureboy87]

Yeah we went over that in one of the previous comments.