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It just seems wrong to have spent the whole day working on a program that makes up data. And yet… it’s so much easier than doing real experiments…

It’s not that I normally read spam, but whatever mailer generates the pseudo-”content” to fool filters clearly has a sense of humor. Best of the current inbox:
“Where we can inexorably plan an escape from our dust bunny.Where we can non-chalantly sanitize our cheese wheel.But they need to remember how hardly hydrogen atom beyond laughs [...]

The department has a new supervisor for the dispensary. He’s got some interesting signs/slogans on his door now, which have been puzzling me for some time. I’m bored and waiting for an experiment to finish so…
Slogan 1: “Chemistry in Four Words: Who’s Got the Ions?”
I don’t remember if it’s actually capitalized like that [...]

Sitting here waiting for the mounting resin to cure for another experiment gives me time to ponder. This is the first experiment in several weeks of working on the test apparatus, and it’s probably been closer to two months since the last time I mounted a specimen. Plenty of little tricks that [...]

Saw a deer on the way home from work today. I was walking along through the engineering campus, which still lots of nice woodsy areas, and there was a youngish-looking white-tailed deer by the side of the road. He (?) let me get to within about 25 paces before he sort of strolled off into the woods. Sometimes I really really like this town.

“A Ph.D. gives you the ability to fail nine out of 10 times,” he says half-jokingly. “It means that you can get up every day and be excited about things you know almost certainly won’t work.”
– James C. Romine, Dupont