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Th1onein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 06:17 AM
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I just bought copies of a book that has me as an author
Strange feeling. I guess I could have had the publishing company send me a free copy, but I bought one for a friend and for myself.

It's a textbook for research scientists about cystic fibrosis and I wrote one of the chapters. It took me about two weeks to write it, which is a record time for me. My first paper took me two years to write and even then I wouldn't send it out for publication. My second only took me a year, and I did send it for publication, although I don't like it, now.

It's going to be strange, getting a book with my name in it as an author. But it feels really good. Especially so, since I am a self-taught scientist.
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paulsby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 06:31 AM
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1. good for you
i remember the first time i saw my name in print (and no, i am not referring to a navin johnson moment!).

:)

it's a great feeling.
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Th1onein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 06:38 AM
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4. What's a "navin johnson" moment?
And, yeah, it's a great feeling.
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paulsby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 06:43 AM
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6. here ya go
quotes from the steve martin movie "the jerk"

Navin R. Johnson: The new phone book's here! The new phone book's here!
Harry Hartounian: Boy, I wish I could get that excited about nothing.
Navin R. Johnson: Nothing? Are you kidding? Page 73 - Johnson, Navin R.! I'm somebody now! Millions of people look at this book everyday! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity - your name in print - that makes people. I'm in print! Things are going to start happening to me now.

Sniper: Johnson, Navin R... sounds like a typical bastard.
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Th1onein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 02:55 PM
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17. Hah! I loved that movie!
n/t
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Adelante Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 06:34 AM
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2. Congratulations
:)
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angstlessk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 06:37 AM
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3. dern, DU has quite a bevy of authors! bet that 'alternative universe' AKA freeperdom
has one or two who can spell and complete a sentence that contains both a noun AND a verb!

CONGRATULATIONS! :toast
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formercia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 06:41 AM
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5. Congrats.
It just proves you don't need a Doctorate from Cacademia.
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FSogol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 06:52 AM
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7. I wrote a guide book about 10 years ago and I still see it in book stores & libraries.
That's still a big thrill.
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Sanity Claws Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 06:58 AM
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8. Congratulations!
I hope you get an even bigger thrill when you start seeing those royalty checks come in.
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Vidar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 07:55 AM
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9. Congratulations.
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OmmmSweetOmmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 07:58 AM
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10.  Congratulations!
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BadgerKid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 09:15 AM
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11. Congrats.
Any latest news on the gene therapy front?
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Th1onein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 02:08 PM
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14. Gene therapy is a no go in this disease.
It's a genetic disease, alright, but the problem with gene therapy is that the lungs are one of the main organs that meet with the dirty, nasty outside world, and thus, they have one hell of an immune system. You can't put a strange gene in these lungs. They've tried vector after vector to carry the correct copy into the nucleic membrane. Not happening.

Maybe, now, though, with stem cells, they'll be able to make a breakthrough. That's taking a bit of a different approach, although it is still gene therapy.
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 09:23 AM
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12. Congratulations!
my ex BIL's younger sis died from that nasty disease.

:toast:

Onward Scientific Soldiers. :-)
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hootinholler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 09:46 AM
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13. Here's to my autodidactic brethern and sistern!
:toast:

-Hoot
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Th1onein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 02:09 PM
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15. I couldn't have done it any other way, but.....
being autodidactic, as you know, has it's drawbacks.
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onestepforward Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 02:44 PM
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16. Congratulations!

:toast:
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