Yesterday I got a note from James Frost III, the CEO of a company called BioTx, a life-sciences automation company, advising me of a new "non-commercial, non-PC, fun, free" Web site that his company has started, called Confessions from the Lab. (By "non-PC" he apparently does NOT mean that it's a Mac shop.) Frost sent me the link after reading Phil Dee's excellent Confessions of a Secret Lab Dancer on Science Careers.
It's pretty much what you would expect, a mix of lame, silly, and provocative, funny descriptions of stuff that happens in the lab that no one should ever admit, along with a few other lab-related thoughts, like "Top Ten Ways to Get Thrown Out of the Lab." Warning: The list is distinctly NOT PC:
It's pretty much what you would expect, a mix of lame, silly, and provocative, funny descriptions of stuff that happens in the lab that no one should ever admit, along with a few other lab-related thoughts, like "Top Ten Ways to Get Thrown Out of the Lab." Warning: The list is distinctly NOT PC:
10: Pretend an electron got stuck in your ear, and describe the sound to others.
9: Give a cup of liquid nitrogen to a partner and ask them how it tastes.
8: Consistently write 3 atoms of potassium as KKK.
7: Mutter repeatedly "not again...".
6: During a lull cry out, "My eyes"!
5: Deny the existence of chemicals.
4. Begin pronouncing everything your immigrant lab instructor says exactly the way he/she says it.
3. Casually walk to the front of the room and urinate in a beaker.
2. Pop a paper bag at the crucial moment when the professor is about to pour the sulfuric acid
1. Show up with a 55-gallon drum of fertilizer and express an interest in federal buildings.
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