Eerie and Unpleasant

I just got spam from "Atalanta." How the fuck do they do that? Jesus.

pwned

Nobody knows our Forma Scientific Model #3158 Water-Jacketed CO2 Incubator like I do. Changing out the CO2 tubing required a helluva lot of unscrewing, and a great deal of fiddling with delicate dangly things from 1962. Also had to take out all the insides, so I could pull the blower motor, hook up the inlet/sampling tubes, and re-connect the CO2 sensor that my boss had pulled off.

("There's not much slack there, boss. You might not want to--"
*pop*
"Did I just hear a popping sound? Oh. That's okay. I know where that goes.")

It was fun. I'm not mechanically inclined, so little victories over the physical world make me feel accomplished. People in this lab really think I can fix things, now that they've seen me take apart some apparatus (apparatuses? -i?). I know better, but the misguided worship still feels nice.

One thing I've learned is that one gives the impression of knowing a lot more about something than one really does when that something is in pieces and getting put back together. I was just snaking some new Tygon tubing into there, but there were wires and circuit boards and all manner of mysterious objects I don't understand all over the place.

Thank you, Sadira.

I laughed so hard, I couldn't mouse.

>Subject: Bouncing black bear
>Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 11:55:26 -0400 (EDT)
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>this is one of the funniest things ever.
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>http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=1437587&nav=EyAzHvQ1

blagh

I will find a better way to refill that basement fish drum. Takes forever. I moved the two "for give away" plecos up to Fluffy's tank, which is much easier to clean, in order to decrease the frequency of drum-water changes.

Don't freak out. Both of those plecos have lived with Fluffy for weeks before, and the worst she's ever done is just try a little taste -- no injuries. Their texture must be very bad. Tonight, I caught her tasting the bigger one's tail a little, but she wasn't serious about it. The pleco looked annoyed, but unafraid. "Knock it off, you freak."

more cars-for-pretend

Scratch the Accord. For the same price, I can get a baby RSX. Not the faster-than-your-mom model, but still a much nimbler car than an Accord.

Stupid economy.