Although sometimes that comes after a little bit of lounging on the couch at 1:30am on Christmas and short dusky walks at the Bluff Creek mountain bike trails.
While living the high life out at the land, dogs ride on top of cars, grown men are featured in senior pictures redux redux redux, girls hold dogs lovingly, brothers lose themselves in thought, mothers split 24-inch diameter logs into veritable kindlings (yes, kindlings!), fathers provide mothers with such logs, brothers provide mother-providing fathers with such logs, and beers stand in between me and the sun, at which point i shoot them (often after unintentionally taking cover in the long grass, myself).
'Basic research is not typically driven by the possibility of applications. Although looking for results that will be useful in the short term might be the best strategy for someone seeking personal fortune, it wouldn't be the best strategy for a society looking for long-term benefit from the scientific research it supports. Basic scientific investigation has proven over the centuries to have long-term payoffs, even when the applications were not evident at the time the research was carried out...we don't believe there is any need for linguistic research to be justified on the basis of its foreseeable uses.'
--Sag et al (2003) (shortly before explaining some foreseeable uses of linguistic research)
