Nothing more than your standard academic. I'm not sure if anyone has heard my views on academics here but there's many a rant on the net posted by me about how I feel about academics. By "academic" I do not mean those dedicated persons working their butts off to help people, I mean snotty, pampered, cowardly, outright Báltaí, bitseach, cac ar oineach...David Baker Téigh trasna ort féin who slander those who work under them. A lot of credit for many, many discoveries should've gone to the grad students who actually do the work, not the jerk sitting in the chair.
