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Colin (Cee-Doc) Laroque - Unbelievable
as it may seem, this stunned looking person is somewhere near the top of
the MAD Lab food chain. The Lab really took off when he arrived and
it will never be the same again. Colin's unique properties are that
he is fairly cranky most of the time, as well as being especially grouchy
in the morning. His favorite tree is still a yellow cedar, even
though he has yet to find one in the eastern maritime region. Colin
is a Taurus. claroque@mta.ca |
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Sarah (Trixie)
Quann - Trixie comes from a fine Maritime family steeped firmly
in the fisheries of Cape Breton. Since her alleged
allergies to seafood have kept her out of her mom's family business,
she decided instead to try trees. After selling her indentured
soul to the devil (Amanda), Sarah entered the MAD Lab's abridged
7-year undergraduate training program to become an apprenticed
"helper". She is currently working on mastering year one tasks such
as fetching a sample straw, throwing a bag over a cliff at Joggins, and
trying to quickly find the start of a roll of wet duct tape in the
rain. Sarah's hobbies include stock car racing (To the floor,
twenty-four!...Chucker tells us it is some kind of a Jeff Gordon
groupie kind of thing that she always says...) and best of eleven
Monopoly tournaments. slquann@mta.ca |
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Geoff (Jiffy)
Kershaw - Half pirate, half rasta, and a half
miler, Jiffy is one and a half times taller than your average
dendrochronologist. He likes aspen a lot. This is strange, but
then again, so is Geoff. He likes his laptop an aweful lot too,
perhaps too much, and is prone to weeping when they don't have their
quality time together. Geoff is well into music, and his hobbies
include passionate didgeridoo solos in the MAD Lab, which tend to
echo through the entire building. Geoff and his didgeridoo know all
of the security guards on campus, the local by-law officer, and of course
all of the town RCMP by first name. Well as long as he has his little
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Bryan (Jobs)
Mood - Bryan can be a bit stunned most of the time.
Hmmm, not too much else to say here... Oh ya, he also complains
nearly all the time...well perhaps constantly is a better word.
Never one to sit quiet, Bryan can always be counted on to say an
inappropriate thing, at the most inappropriate time. Hired
to be a computer programmer in the MAD Lab, he has learned
almost every computer language possible through a series of failures.
When he fails to accomplish task one with the first language, he
learns a new programming language and fails with that one
too. Luckily he is a master baker, and brings in baked goods on most
days and all road trips. For this, he is a highly regarded member of
the MAD Lab team. Bryan's favourite cookie is currently a milk chocolate
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Cecilia (CC)
Jennings - Taking time out of her career goal
of creating world peace, CC has blessed the MAD Lab with her
presence. Just having her around us has made us all better
people, mainly because she has told us so. Her background is
nearly everything and that fits in well as, we usually give her
everything to do. Well every job we can think of at least, and
to date, she has accomplished them all. Her forte includes, interior
design, cooking potluck masterpieces, classical music and
musical instruments (specializing in violins, mandolins, and
accordians), woodworking equipment, labour relations, as well
as alcohol, tobacco and firearms laws of the United States
and Canada. Cecilia is an English major and a Leo. |
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Emma (Pumps)
Davis - Rarer than a lefthanded calf roper, Emma is one
of the most gifted of the gifted in the MAD Lab. Her background
includes world class rankings in: One-leg calf roping, caragana
killing, wearing inappropriate footwear in a batting
cage, and highland dancing. Although she entered the MAD Lab
relatively late in her carreer, she made up for things quickly due to her
extensive "in-your-face" dendrochronology abilities, and her aggressive
potential. She's got sacks full of agressive potential. Emma can not
be confined to specialize with just one tree species, instead
she likes them all, and currently has nine friendly species that she
works with. Did I mention that she likes western Canada? Ya,
that and she has a hankering for Mexican food, all the time. She
is also a quasi-vegetarian, but will only eat meat if she is allowed to
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Emily (Chuckles) Hogan - Being mean to kids just comes naturally to Emily. A graduate of the Marcel Marceau School of Mime Hand Dancing, Emily and her countless buckets of character spends most of her time trying to torment kids with school work. After spending the first 5 years of her undergraduate degree carefully studying the best way to get under a "young punks" skin, Emily decided making them do school work was about as low as she could go. She then transferred out of Commerce. In the subsequent 2 years of her undergraduate degree, she figured out that forcing science on grade twos is mathematically the most onerous time in a youngster's career. She then transferred out of Chemistry. She then spent the summer of 2011, developing and piloting an Environmental Science detective book on a subsample of kiddies at Salem Elementary. She then transferred out of Environmental Science. She plans to use the final 6 years of her undergrad Geography degree at Mount Allison to spread chaos, and hopes to develop her book to the point where it will require the grade twos to also do homework too. Chuckles is a terrible decision maker. ekhogan@mta.ca |
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Georgia (Ice)
Bock - Georgia is a nice person, no matter what it
says on the stall wall # 4 in the men's washroom. Her sister is
probably nicer though, but that is just because Georgia has a
bit of an attitude. Not since the likes of....
hmmmm.....well OK, we've never had anyone in the MAD Lab with an
attitude like Georgia. The positive thing though, is now we know
not to do that again. With her steely dark eyes, Ice Bock can cut
through a lesser being with but a glance. By hiring Bryan to fill
the position of weak link in the lab, we took the pressure off of
everyone else though, as Georgia dedicates most of her considerable anger
towards yelling at Jobs. Spending time in the MAD Lab
"working" is Georgia's favorite hobby. She does it almost
weekly, that is if she can fit it into her busy Facebook
schedule. georgiabock@gmail.com |
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Steve (Beaker)
Hall - Steve came to the MAD Lab after having no fun
in Chemistry. He arrived and spent most of his time working
on his joystick response time and of course being late for
work. He subsequently learned more about Environmental Chemistry on
his first MAD Lab road trip to a greasy pub in Halifax then he had ever
dreamed. Although best known to most for the "cesspool of useless
information" he has collected in his 12 % over-sized head during trivia
nights, Beaker is often wrong. In fact, he statistically calculated
that he is incorrect at most things, 63 % of the time, 19 times out of
20....even if his sample size is one. As he says, that's the way
they do it in Chemistry, and both his brother and his mother agree with
him. With this kind of logic, most should be able to see why he was
runner up for rookie-of-the-year three times in a
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Darlene (Boss) Estabrooks - Darlene runs
the show. One should never question her authority, nor underestimate
her ability to supervise...everything in Avard-Dixion. Darlene holds
a special place in her heart for New Brunswick's provincial tree (Abies balsamea), small puppies, as well
as peanut butter fudge clusters. Only a person with her specialized
training could officially oversee the Mad Lab, and so she does. She
runs the place with an iron fist, and she likes it that way. dmestabr@mta.ca |
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Alison (Two Fists) Estabrooks - Alison,
the other Estabrooks, may look meek and mild, but as the Branch manager of the MAD Lab, she's the
muscle behind Darlene's whims. Alison loves all Betula spp. They are her favourite trees
and so whatever you do, do not bad mouth them when she is around. If
you do, you may feel the wrath of 'two fists' and it is not a pretty
sight. Alison loves to dance and skydive. aestabro@mta.ca |
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Maintained by Colin P.
Laroque Dec. 13, 2011 |
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