6 posts tagged “lab”
Show us your favorite tool.
Submitted by Maraschino.
Useful for keeping you awake during the day and for scaring lab visitors by placing it too close to a hot vial of Techy.
P.S I would never do that, it's bad OH&S
P.P.S The whole lot is behind a lead shield anyway, so noone is getting irradiated. :)
Show us your favorite gadget at work.
But there are so many!! Apart from all the high-tech gadgets (HPLC, AA etc), I think my favourites would have to be the stuff I use all the time.
- My gamma counter! It caused me no end of trouble, but now that it is fixed *touches wood* it's a pretty nifty type of toy
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Decrimpers
- I think I could play with these all day. They take the seals of the vials when I have to test them.
- TSA plates - Ihave to create a positive control when I test for environmental microbiology. We have fun with pretty patterns!
More and more people are working remotely these days. Does your job allow you to do so? How much face-time do you usually put in at the office during any given week?
I'd love to see me trying to work from home! I'd have to invent teleport first.
I can just see it now ..
Me: Hi guys, can you just pass the butanone. Yeah, the small bottle. Just put it in the teleport
Them: OK. I don't think it will fit. How 'bout I just pour some into a beaker for you?
Me: Oh, alright. Just remember the lid this time. I don't want to have mutated flies again. Now I'm just sending the radioactive chromatography strips back. Can you just pop it into the gamma counter for me?
eerrr.. I think the answer to that is NO! I do have webmail, so I get to keep an eye on what's going on while I'm supposed to be on holidays.
We had one of these in the lab today. Needless to say it had to die.
I got one of the guys to do it. (I am a wuss)
Sometimes, I'm glad that I'm absolutely swamped with work.
This morning I was invited to a 'meeting' - some guy was going to talk at us about equipment that had just been bought for THE OTHER DEPARTMENT. Like a needed to be there.
So I used my full day chromatography test as an excuse. Honest! It was valid. I wasn't trying to get out of a meeting.
Good thing I did though. Everyone else was stuck in the conference room for 2.5 hours and missed out on the cricket.
P.S. NZ are getting thrashed. I wanted to see us play them in the final. Now we get to whitewash England again.
I am really going to have to do something about the power in the lab - like delaying power outages by 5 mins while the gamma counter finishes printed the results :(
The machine has a UPS attached (yay), but I found out the hard way that the printer had not been attached *sulks*
Lucklily ACTEW came along and fixed it just before home time so I could count the strips again..
I just hope it's ok to count the strips 3 hrs after they are developed.
P.S. Now I'm told that this is a regular occurrence during summer when the a/c is on full blast and we keep getting more electrical equipment and plug it into the same phase
*sigh*
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