Comments | vintage_fish: My Job

vintage_fish

My Job

Mar 20, 2009 17:20

Annoyingly detailed transcript of an hour of my day ahead! Nothing important here; you won't miss anything of my life if you skip this post ( Read more... )

science, work

Comments 9

ryshad March 21 2009, 01:54:03 UTC

ever since i was a wee lad i've had daydreams of "science" -- you describe pretty much exactly what I envisioned.

vintage_fish March 21 2009, 04:44:00 UTC

Yeah, this pretty much fits my childhood daydreams, too. And I do love it so very much.

ryshad March 22 2009, 00:36:14 UTC

I knowz you got pictures of the lab, but i forget if you got pics of you in the lab...

_counterculture March 21 2009, 04:16:18 UTC

Purple-haired mad scientist chick is so very hot.

vintage_fish March 21 2009, 04:42:56 UTC

Long-haired teacher dude is so very hot, too. *smile*

_counterculture March 21 2009, 18:43:34 UTC

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, so sweet!

axegrrl March 22 2009, 17:11:36 UTC

http://usacomicbooks.stores.yahoo.net/geent.html shall be art of my Halloween costume, as I work at a company with a similar logo.

I am searching for an appropriate lab coat and a plastic Erlenmeyer or other easily-identifiable labware. It must be plastic, or the office safety people will be annoyed.

Any suggestions for purveyors of either? Or do you deal strictly with high-volume suppliers?

vintage_fish March 24 2009, 01:42:21 UTC

I've never seen a plastic Erlenmeyer flask, but all of the graduated cylindars we use are plastic. You could also do something like a test tube rack with some 15mL conical tubes with colored water in them, perhaps? I could maybe send you a few used ones that have held only water, if I can do so without bending or breaking rules. I think a graduated cylindar for your beverage would be just AWESOME. Well, if you got it new, that is. You couldn't pay me enough to ingest something out of a used one at our lab; aside from wrecking rules of common sense, I know what's been in those things - scary! ;)

As far as purveyors of such goods, I am not in charge of procurement at the lab, outside of fish room equipment; we go through Aquatic Eco-Systems for fish room stuff, and though they do sell such items as test tube racks and lab coats (at higher prices than the folks our lab manager uses), I believe they sell only to research facilities, fish farms, and the like. I'll poke around and see what I can find out.

Aquatic Eco-Systems gotmopar April 13 2009, 09:08:42 UTC

Late reply,

They sell retail as well.