08:02 – We’re in pretty good shape right now on chemistry kits and biology kits. Orders have slacked off a bit for now, so I’m going to spend some time in the lab making up solutions for the forensics kits. Before I do that, though, I need to wash up a bunch of stuff.
One of the advantages of having a lot of glassware and plasticware is that I don’t have to stop in the middle of doing something to wash stuff up. One of the disadvantages is that I don’t have to stop in the middle of doing something to wash stuff up. As it is, when I finish using a vessel, I just rinse it thoroughly and set it aside to drain. So, as of now, I’d guess that I have maybe 50 rinsed-but-not-washed beakers, mostly 500 mL and 1 L, about the same number of graduated cylinders (ranging from 100 mL to 2 L), maybe a dozen volumetric flasks, a couple of filtering flasks, a dozen or so Erlenmeyers, probably 50 each stirring rods and spatulas, and a partridge in a pear tree.
There he goes again; can’t help himself; Christmas songs….
I’m pretty sure that was a Saturnalia song before you guys stole it.
My favorite, though, is the Scrubs version:
“12 beaten children, 11 drive-by shootings, 10 frozen homeless, 9 amputations, 8 burn victims, 7 strangled shoppers, 6 random knifings, 5 suicides, 4 beaten wives, 3 OD’s, 2 shattered skulls, and a drunk who drove into a tree.”
““12 beaten children, 11 drive-by shootings, 10 frozen homeless, 9 amputations, 8 burn victims, 7 strangled shoppers, 6 random knifings, 5 suicides, 4 beaten wives, 3 OD’s, 2 shattered skulls, and a drunk who drove into a tree.”
Sounds remarkably like a typical Christmas Eve overnight back in the day when OFD was still working the nasty city streets as a cop. We could count on it. Mostly domestics all night and real nasty and violent. I would think of all the Nativity scenes outside and on Christmas cards and ponder how it was that you never see the baby Jesus crying in His manger. But He would have been crying if He could have seen those nights in the city. Me and any other cop you could have asked would tell you we would much rather go to armed robberies in progress and running gun battles than domestics.
And that is also one Christmas song that if I never hear it again it will be too soon, like a bunch of others. Boring as hell. And the only Little Drummer Boy version I can tolerate is the one by Asleep at the Wheel, who also do a very fine “Christmas in Jail.”
Jeezum, how did we get onto Christmas in mid-July? And coincidentally I get a flyer in the mail from the American Gunsmithing Institute, pushing their ‘Christmas in July’ sale on courses and DVDs. Low 80s here today but awful humid again; I can’t wait for fall and a nice long cold very snowy winter.
I think this falls under the heading of news I didn’t want to know.
Anyone here from WV?
I really like the Los Angeles High School mathematics exam:
http://www.snopes.com/humor/question/mathtest.asp
Yay, we is number 26!
Hey, math test? Ya gotta work with the kids ya got. I guarantee this would generate more interest and participation than the usual white-bread crap they used to use, even in white-bread territory.
Yikes! Indiana is not far down from WV. What is it that determines how you rank on this list? How much you pay for dentists? Connecticut has got to be among the most—if not the most—expensive in the nation.
When traveling through some towns in Alabama I have wondered if I have to take out a tooth and bust a headlight to get service. And there are parts of them there WV hills where the distance between the eyes can be measured with the width of a pencil.
Comes from keeping it in the family.
Dentist visits in CT are not cheap, I agree, and my dentist is not cheap by CT standards. Does good work though and insurance helps.
From the footnotes below the chart:
DEFINITION: Adults aged 65+ who have had all their natural teeth extracted.
Don’t go to them parts of Alabama or WV or wherever you don’t belong, pardners. We talk a lot of jingo nonsense about being one big happy American melting pot, but that is fast unraveling and there quite simply are places that are no-go areas unless you roll in with an armored convoy and close-air support. This would obviously include most large urban inner-city ‘hoods, esp. at night, some of which have had police patrols only when said police go in force and armed to the teeth. For DECADES now, not just recently. Ditto our southern border.
Stay close to home.
Hey, I watch “Justified” (BTW, Bob, this is highly, highly recommended):
http://movies.netflix.com/Movie/Justified/70166092?country=1&rdirfdc=true
Tennessee looks OK unless you are shooting at Raylan Givens ( Timothy Olyphant ).
I’ve watched that show, too, a while back. Is it still on? And if I was jammed up somehow with Raylan, I’d have to do him from a distance accordingly; I was quick once but not now.
The third season of “Justified” finished a couple of months ago:
http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/originals/justified/
I have no idea when season 4 starts. Maybe in the Fall.
I would not want to tangle with Boyd either. He can take a couple and keep on moving and shooting, just like Raylan. My wife was real disappointed that Boyd lost his religion so quickly but I think that it is down there somewhere.
I just had a gigabyte motherboard GA-Z68XP-UD4 DOA on me. I tried two cpus on it, a 2600K and 3570K, both refused to even BIOS on me. I replaced the motherboard with a GA-Z68XP-UD5H that I had stashed for a rain day and it booted just fine with the 2600K cpu.
I am trying to decide whether or not to send in the UD4 for fixing or just throw it in my pond ? My previous experience with gigabyte support was not good.
Yeah, we’ve been watching Justified since it first became available on DVD. I think we’re up to date as far as streaming/DVD releases.
“I am trying to decide whether or not to send in the UD4 for fixing or just throw it in my pond ?”
Someone long and dark green with lotsa teeth might not like that very much.
Lynn, send it back and get your dough.
I missed the dadgum 30 day return window on Amazon. And it turns out it was a 3rd party and they have to give permission to return it.
Hi OFD, Fred the gator is missing. I last saw him / her last Friday. I suspect that one of my neighbors took him out over the weekend or else he took a hike down to the river to meet some honeys.