Why make a stock solution and NOT label it with the concentration of the compound in the solution!!?! Why ( Read more... )

UF's on-line subscription for Molecular and General Genetics only goes back to 1997. And the bound paper articles they have in the libraries are from ( Read more... )

The LJ comment eating monster has struck again!! I replied to a friend's comment over a week ago and I just randomly went back to the post to discover that my comment had never been posted! And I distinctly remember typing up the response to her. Now if this had happened once, I would blow it off as something stupid like me forgetting to hit the ( Read more... )

This is going to be a rather eclectic post. First off, it seems I'm on a roll, LIMS wise. In addition to my entry at sg1_lims getting member's choice a few days ago, my entry at laura_lims also got member's choice this challenge.


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The new Microsoft Office 2008 sucks monkey balls! not your Monkey, Nana

Counter-intuitive menus.....it takes 5+ minutes to figure out how to do something that would have taken me 5 seconds to do in the old software.

Don't upgrade unless you absolutely have to.

This has been a public service announcement.

So I just got a letter from the property manager of the duplex I rent informing me that the yard man who works on my property reported that I was "discarding cat litter in the back yard." WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She goes on to give instructions on how to properly dispose of cat litter and talk about "eliminating any health issues ( Read more... )

Okay, so I was just rewatching the season finale of Stargate Atlantis, and at the end of the they said, "New episodes starting in September....SEPTEMBER!!!!! At first I was like, "Great, I won't have too wait long to see the other half of the cliffhanger" and then I was like...WTF? Stargate ends at the end of June and comes back in September while ( Read more... )

So after 2 weeks of not having hot water, I left another message with the property manager last night saying that this was ridiculous and that a repair like this should not be left for 2 weeks. And although she never returned my call directly, she apparently contacted some people about it because I had a plumber show up on my doorstep this morning ( Read more... )

So the woman in my driveway yesterday WAS my property manager! And she did not say a thing to me about being in the driveway yesterday! Weird! Of course, I didn't realize this until after she walked outside to inspect the exterior of te building. On a hunch, I looked out the window to the driveway and low and behold, there sat the same Honda ( Read more... )

Out of all the empty driveways on my street, including the empty one RIGHT next to my driveway, this random woman has to pull into MY driveway, BLOCKING my car. HELLO lady, there was an empty driveway with NO car to block just 5 feet to the right of my car. Hell, mine and my neighbors driveway is basically one very wide driveway, with enough room ( Read more... )