I was trying to explain to Post-Doc that I have to use the confocal microscope to take slices of the cells I'm imaging because they are mitotic and therefore round like beach-balls, where interphase cells are relatively flat, and that various parts of the cellular structure wouldn't be in focus if I simply focused on one plane ( Read more... )

( this day is fired )

I just. There's no practicality or common sense. None.

I was doing some data analysis in my office when Post-Doc came in and said she thought the CO2 incubator was leaking. So I went in, and yeah, Y-connector on the tubing that runs from the CO2 tank to the incubator was hissing. Did she close the tank, to stop the over-pressure? No. Did she check ( Read more... )

Like, shouldn't having a PhD mean you have some common sense? I'd like to think so. But in my lab, APPARENTLY NOT ( Read more... )

a) Clybourne Park. The Alley is producing it this season, and we saw it on Sunday. I really enjoyed parts of it, and think Norris does an interesting job of weaving race and perception as related to urban renewal with things like unpopular war and PTSD. Parts of the second act felt like they were written specifically for a talk-back with a ( Read more... )

FFUUUUUUUUUUCK ( Read more... )

( What the fuck, Fisher Scientific? )

( in which I ramble about work, belatedly cut to save your f-list )