Okay, nothing else in my house is allowed to break ( Read more... )

Today was an incredibly busy and yet spectacularly unproductive day. John from the machine shop came up with an airtight cap for the NMR rotors and I was testing it last night on some starting material I got from another lab. (We didn't have any cheap, air sensitive starting materials with good NMR handles that weren't going to catch fire ( Read more... )

Considering that it costs $1.50 for a cycle on the dryer, would it be so much to ask that it actually get the clothes some SEMBLANCE of dry? And they provide the extra "quarter" trick on the WASHERS, but not the dryers. Don't they know you need the extended cycle to DRY things, not wash them? :p ( Read more... )