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By Dennis Hong on Tuesday, August 03, 1999 - 01:50 pm: Edit

Hello all,

For lack of a better place to put this topic, it's going here. So there. Anyways, I wanted to start this thread because everyone has the occasional bad day at work. And I, for one, am truly truly annoyed right now....

You see, my research project involves measuring the growth of viruses at different temperatures. At my disposal, I have two incubators with built-in digital thermometers that measure the internal temperature to an accuracy of a tenth of a degree. One is set at 30.0 degrees, the other is set at 31.0 degrees, as is shown on a big LCD display on the door of each incubator. Good enough, right? Well, after months of experiments, I decided to stick some good old fashioned mercury thermometers inside, on a whim, just to see how accurate the internal thermometers really are.

What did I find? Well, the incubator that's set at 30.0 is actually 32.0 degrees inside, and the one that's set at 31.0 is actually 29.5 degrees inside. Aaaaargh!!!!! $!@$@#&!$%$#@#$&#*&@!?!?!? Wouldn't you think that two brand new scientific-use incubators with built-in digital thermometers would be decently accurate? I guess NOT!!!!

So now... I have to figure out (somehow) if these bad boys have always been off, or if they've fluctuated over the past 5 months, in which case I'm totally screwed. Then I have to decide which experiments are salvageable, and which ones I have to redo. Goddamn pieces of shit.

Okay, that is all for today.

Damn, two rants in two days. What the hell is wrong with me?!?!?

By Ron on Monday, August 23, 1999 - 02:33 pm: Edit

Just go dancing.

Let's see. I've spent 6 months working on mind-numbing document editing and report generating projects, most of which turn out to be of no use to anyone, which has been obvious to me, but I have to continue doing them until it becomes obvious to my boss. Well, at least it leaves time to type stupid posts. But I've never had such an engineering job where what I'm doing is so unimportant. It gets me down. Even dancing doesn't always help.

Always have your instruments calibrated by a cal lab every 6 mos to a 1 year!

By Andy on Monday, August 23, 1999 - 02:54 pm: Edit

Mr Ron...

what's your discipline again? EE, CS, ME? If anyone knows any CS'ers, send me a resume... the company I work for is looking for some (andy_gooden@hp.com).

So, Ron, once you get vested in those stock options... come work for us! (unless you retire.. shit, Qcom is kickin' ass!)

By Ian Campbell on Monday, August 23, 1999 - 03:46 pm: Edit

Lovin my new job at mp3.com. Watch for us on tv this week!!!

By Andy on Tuesday, August 24, 1999 - 03:22 pm: Edit

OK, something funny happened to me today (most will probably not think this is as funny as me)..
so, during lunch I ran to the post office, dressed how I usually dress for work.. Tshirt, baggy cord shorts, Airwalks. Coming out of the post office, this lady stops me and asks me about the logo on my tshirt, "SDG". I explained that this stood for, "speed defies gravity" which is a mountain bike racing component company.

So, in a very condescending voice she remarks, "oh, just a mountainbiker, I thought maybe your shirt was science related. This is very interesting that a company would call itself that, because I bet you didn't know about the theory of static gravity, which says that the faster something goes, the lighter it gets." Then in a Mr. Roger's type voice, "this is what allows bumble bees and B-52's to fly"

I couldn't let this one go, so I told her she was right, I'd never heard of that theory... because it violates known laws of physics, specifically Einstein's theory of relativity, which states that an object's relativistic mass increases as it's speed increases. She must be confused with how the Bernoulli principal relates to lift on airfoils, where pressure will drop as airspeed increases... but mass stays the same.

The lady almost shit in her pants. Two lessons:
a) best not to speak as an authority, until you know your audience

b) I look alot dumber than I really am. ~8^)

By Anonymous on Thursday, August 26, 1999 - 03:57 pm: Edit

Oi!

Have you ever had your boss show you where she keeps her nitrogen and her cardiologist's business card and her insurance card and give you instructions on how to administer nitrogen to an unconscious person?

Harumph!

By Jane H on Friday, August 27, 1999 - 12:22 am: Edit

It's the little stoopid things that I do during the day that drive me nuts! Like giving all 3 copies of an invoice to a customer......or putting all the checks in the evelopes backwards so the addresses don't show.....or putting my keys down somewhere in the #!%?&! shop and not being able to lock up until I find them and having to be somewhere 5 minutes ago!!! Or being the butt of someone else's stupid joke...... like today, my machine repair man, after spending 2 hrs trying to properly adjust my malfunctioning $6000.00 piece-of-@!#! machine telling me that he thinks it just needs some new updoc, and my response being "WHAT'S UP DOC?". Thank God for dancing!

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