Working hard or hardly working?

Yesterday Dada and his buddy Art, who is also new-fish faculty (but in the Geology Department), decided to collaborate on some field work. Dada has recently received a fancy instrument, bought with his start-up money, and wanted to field-test it. And where would they go to test this instrument, on one of the most beautiful days of the year, but Rehoboth Beach. What a bunch of slackers. You could almost hear the Urkel-like snorting between this nerdly pair as they made the drive: "Heh heh, we're getting paid to go to the beach, heh heh."

Here's our Dada, working his buns off (AKA talking to his wife on his cell phone while he works on his farmer's tan):