[Histonet] Retirement

[Paula Sicurello]

Sheesh!  We used to have people smoke while working with propylene oxide.

Eating in your control pigs was part of the benefit of being a
graduate student to save on grocery money.

Film?  My TEM used glass plates.

Lab mates used to routinely drink diet coke and 100% ethanol on Fridays.

Wearing closed toed shoes was for wimps, you were just fast if you
dropped a steel wedge blade.

We even wrote using the entire word and proper grammar, none of this
acronym stuff for us.

Retirement?  What's that?

Paula :-)

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Amos Brooks <amosbrooks <@t> gmail.com> wrote:
> Agarose Gels!
>    ... Listen you whipersnapper Agarose is the easy way out. When I learned
> it we used to have to make up our own polyacrylamide gels. That was after
> having to walk to work up hill both ways in 30 feet of snow!
>
> (No nearer retirement)
> Crotchety Amos
>
>
>
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> Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:24:12 -0400
> From: Emily Sours <talulahgosh <@t> gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Histonet] Retirement
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> Retirement? I think by the time I get to that point, social security will
> have run out.
> Then again, technology will be so advanced, I can tell stories about the old
> days, where I logged on to the bbs by modem to post messages to my friends
> and typed in my own html coding.
> We didn't have google when I was young!! Our cameras used film! And you
> couldn't see how bad your pictures were until you developed that film!!
> There was no PCR to sequence your DNA, you ran an agarose gel and hoped for
> the best!! You could drink the 100% ethanol, there was no denaturing! (okay
> that was before my time) You could smoke in the lab while you sectioned
> without gloves!! (okay that was too)
>
> Emily
>
> A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted.
> You should live several lives while reading it.
> -William Styron
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