Want to attend M2O’s WordPress course for free?
This Saturday M2O is putting on the first of our Social Media workshops: Building Websites with WordPress– Building Websites with WordPress: Introduction | Vancouver New Media School. Sound familiar? Well it should because this is going to be essentially the same course I teach for UBC Continuing Studies. This is a half-day course (9-12) at BCIT’s downtown campus on Seymour will cover the basics and a bit beyond on building a website using WordPress.
Don’t fear, I’m going to teach how to do it all code-free and also how to do it DIY. This class is priced at $99, but three lucky people can attend as our guests if you can answer a trivia question.
Call this “How well do you know Tris or use Google” … Many of you know that I have a Masters degree and that my degree is pretty much unrelated to anything I do now.
The trivia question is: “Where was the location in the field where my research was based?”
This is not where I went to school (Univ. of Maine), but where did I gather the data, samples, etc.
I’ll give you another hint, it’s also not in Canada.
If you can find the title of my thesis, you’ll have your answer.
First three comments with the correct answer win!
Good luck and happy Googling!
Hard to say if I'm correct but I'd guess you did your fieldwork in the Milford drainage basin
http://www.springerlink.com/content/9b81627734a54...
Ah well you found my advisor's wife! But not where I did my field work! Sorry Raul, try again.
Clear Pond, northeastern South Carolina FTW?
Bingo! That would be it.
yay me! god I love a nice little research challenge mid-day.
I'd graciously be saying thank you on Twitter … but twitter is not letting me update today for some reason. Eventually @BlissfulGirl will be appreciative on twitter too
Well, you really ought to hide BlissfulGirl's comment to be fair!! Wish I lived close enough to come, now tha tI know the answer!
Honestly, I thought about it and decided that a little extra nudge is okay. When you're in town, you'll be welcome as my guest.
North Carolina
Brendan, Sorry I missed this, you have a seat for the next time!
My question is – how did Blissful Girl find out?
Digging into Google, the right search terms, maybe using my full name?
A simple Google search using "Tris Hussey Univ. of Maine" showed that the Masters degree unrelated to anything you do now was in Quaternary Studies (that shows up in multiple bios for you). The magic Google search term to find the actual theses was "Theses and Dissertations at the University of Maine" which takes you directly to http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/ where "Hussey" searched brings back your thesis first on the list – I figured it was a safe assumption that "Tris" was short for "Tristram" since the last name and "Quaternary Studies" as the field of study also matched … and voila, there was the name of your thesis with the location in question right in the title.
Very good. I knew someone would put the pieces together. I do leave quite a trail behind actually.