From 7pm to 10pm or so, I will be reducing cow pulmonary arteries (hearts still attached, mind you) to Bovine Pulmonary Artery Smooth Muscle Cells in a laminar flow hood. I feel the sick rush of lurid fascination already.
Have fun. In my end, we commonly stain for the pair of antigens Smooth Muscle Actin and Muscle Specific Actin. I can't resist sorting the slides at the end of the day and saying "SSSSSS-SMACKTIN!" for SM Actin and "'Ms. Actin' if you're nasty" for MS Actin. It was sort of funny the first dozen times or so.
Speaking of which, I may have overextended my deadpan humor a bit. I had to leave a note for our pathologist about why a kidney biopsy from another hospital came in as "Lawton" but got into our computer as "Brown." It was because she already had a medical history here as "Brown" but had gotten married since to some guy named "Lawton." At the bottom of the page, in reference to her taking her husband's name, I wrote "And this is just one reason why patriarchy must be crushed! FIGHT THE POWER!" He hasn't said a single word about it. I think he might be avoiding me.
After the dissection, I took the hood apart to sanitize it. It had not been cleaned this way for many years, I would say. There were little piles of dust-bunny-covered capillary tube and Pasteur pipette fragments hither and yon, along with an interesting film of dusty sludge-yuck covering the entire bottom surface. I told my boss that this hood would come back positive for MoFotoxin.
there was a rummor back in college that the ag dept had a cow with a hole perminately in it's side so that one could reach right in and check it's digestition. very alive doing cowie things.
the NCSU Vet school had one, and I saw it. They called it "the Tupperware cow" because of the peel-off plastic port on the side. They could also reach in and scoop out stomach contents for some reason.
I love how in horror movies, when they find someone's heart in a drawer or in the fridge or wherever, the fucker is HUGE, like 1/2 the size of someone's head (which is often in the fridge right next to it, for easy comparison.) Two possibilities:
1. It didn't matter much if that person got killed, because with that level of cardiomyopathy, they were gonna die soon anyway, or
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Geek humor
Date: 2002-11-20 07:38 pm (UTC)Speaking of which, I may have overextended my deadpan humor a bit. I had to leave a note for our pathologist about why a kidney biopsy from another hospital came in as "Lawton" but got into our computer as "Brown." It was because she already had a medical history here as "Brown" but had gotten married since to some guy named "Lawton."
At the bottom of the page, in reference to her taking her husband's name, I wrote "And this is just one reason why patriarchy must be crushed! FIGHT THE POWER!"
He hasn't said a single word about it. I think he might be avoiding me.
Re: Geek humor
Date: 2002-11-22 09:20 am (UTC)After the dissection, I took the hood apart to sanitize it. It had not been cleaned this way for many years, I would say. There were little piles of dust-bunny-covered capillary tube and Pasteur pipette fragments hither and yon, along with an interesting film of dusty sludge-yuck covering the entire bottom surface. I told my boss that this hood would come back positive for MoFotoxin.
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Date: 2002-11-22 06:37 am (UTC)not a rumor
Date: 2002-11-22 08:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-11-22 09:14 am (UTC)Sweet icon, BTW. :)
cow hearts
Date: 2002-11-22 09:17 pm (UTC)1. It didn't matter much if that person got killed, because with that level of cardiomyopathy, they were gonna die soon anyway, or
2. The FX guys used a cow heart for a prop.