unwashed dishes and toilet paper tubes

[ArgonV]

For my practical cell biology course, I need to keep a cell culture alive for 3 weeks. It's called a Tamagotchi-experiment. I think that's awesome

It does sound awesome.

Goodluck - I found culturing to be hell because I had a fungus infect everything that seemed to be immune to everything, including azide

That sounds very awesome. Now I miss biology ;_;

... the only culture I did myself is probably an assorted airborne bacteria/fungi, taking up the whole agar. I thought the agar contained nothing, until I realized.

It's just osteocarcinoma cells growing in medium. So as long as I subculture them regularly, refresh the medium often enough and of course work sterile, I should be good.

[You, sir, name?]

What the crap, two mystery bruises in a week?

Sounds like a job for linear extrapolation. You'll have over a hundred of those fuckers in a year! Holy crap man, what is going on?!

[Mighty Jalapeno]

Tracking down some crap that the government lost, I found a Service BC expense to my bank account for $140 and a bit. Neither me nor my wife remember what possible Service BC charge could have come from that day, and we managed to recreate the events of the entire day, right down to taking the girls to ballet.

...

What the hell?

[Zarq]

The charge was for wiping your memory.

[Mighty Jalapeno]

What charge?

[Kewangji]

What charge?

That'll be another $140, please.

[UniqueScreenname]

For my practical cell biology course, I need to keep a cell culture alive for 3 weeks. It's called a Tamagotchi-experiment. I think that's awesome

It does sound awesome.

Goodluck - I found culturing to be hell because I had a fungus infect everything that seemed to be immune to everything, including azide

That sounds very awesome. Now I miss biology ;_;

... the only culture I did myself is probably an assorted airborne bacteria/fungi, taking up the whole agar. I thought the agar contained nothing, until I realized.

It's just osteocarcinoma cells growing in medium. So as long as I subculture them regularly, refresh the medium often enough and of course work sterile, I should be good.

In my microbiology lab, we have QC plates with bacteria that we have to subculture everyday so we have fresh samples to do our reagent QC on. Is your project similar to that?

[e^iπ+1=0]

Tracking down some crap that the government lost, I found a Service BC expense to my bank account for $140 and a bit. Neither me nor my wife remember what possible Service BC charge could have come from that day, and we managed to recreate the events of the entire day, right down to taking the girls to ballet.

...

What the hell?

Is it possible that the time the charge was made and the time that it went through are different? I know I've looked at my account before and seen charges that I didn't make, then realized that I had made them and they just hadn't been put through until Monday or whatever.

[Mighty Jalapeno]

I still don't know what I could have possibly paid the government THAT MUCH MONEY for, and not recalled.

[You, sir, name?]

Contact your bank/CC company. They're usually forthcoming in these matters. They'll at least know the origin of the charge, and may be able to cancel it if it isn't legit (and it's only gone a couple of days).

[Van]

itt Van replies to old topics re: WH40k

I picked up some books for a looong plane trip recently, and decided to grab some WH40k novels on a whim, so I picked up two Ciphas Cain books. They're probably the most fun I've ever had with a novel Maybe not amazingly well written, but just.. I don't know. Really liked.

I ended up buying and reading all ?7? of the books in like, 4 days.

[SlyReaper]

I've not read the Ciaphas Cain books, but from what I've been told, they're basically Flashman set in the future. This is definitely a good thing.

[ameretrifle]

I have three separate tabs open to an internet drama-fest, because some paranoid drama-addict is being a douche about trigger-warnings and I consider that Serious Business. ("No one who read that could think it was anything other than amusing!" she says, after someone... who read it... very politely requests a trigger warning...) I could comment anon, but I keep hesitating/thinking better of it, and the madness rambles on without me.

I can't quite decide whether this is very sensible Staying Out of Internet Bullshit, or socially-avoidant dishonourable cowardice. XP

(I think this fool seriously believes that anyone who says anything remotely against her is just one of the legion of trolls who stalk her around to make her life miserable, so, I doubt it would do any good anyway...)

[The Scyphozoa]

It depends on what internet community you're talking about, but assuming it's between strangers on the internet, I don't see why staying out of it is cowardice. I never feel an obligation to defend strangers on the internet. Sometimes I feel compelled to, but never would I feel like a coward for not doing it.

[Kithplana]

Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain baking a pie. What kind of pie is it?

Spoiler:

PECAAAAAAAAAAAN

In other news... I have got to keep better track of my RAID members. I've spent most of today discovering that 1. many GRUBs still don't like RAID metadata v1.2 at all, preferring 0.90, and 2. since I added my new RAID 1 pair last Christmas ('10), but kept the old drive around to boot from because I hadn't figured out the metadata thing yet, my root partition had been still residing on the old drive rather than the new drives.

So now I'm fixing that and also upgrading to Mageia 1 because that was what I wanted to do in the first place.

[Mighty Jalapeno]

I have someone convinced my wife to try watching Firefly. We`ve just made it to `Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!`and she`s still watching. This might work!

[Jumble]

Good luck with that. Mine gave out after I tried to explain why River was in a box.

[ArgonV]

A friend of mine (who unfortunately probably never be my girlfriend, let alone wife) asked me a while back if I'd ever seen 'a space western show or something'. She wanted to watch it. We continued with Doctor Who

[Angua]

Hmmmm, I don't know if my bf has watched Firefly. We're working our way through Farscape at the moment, so maybe after that.

[ArgonV]

Ooh, that's awesome as well. I've seen all episodes 3 or 4 times. In order

[Mighty Jalapeno]

She's already pre-vowed to never watch Farscape.

[Mumpy]

As in, like, that was in your marriage vows? Because that would be dedication to the cause.

[nehpest]

This might work!

Sounds like the marriage might make it after all!

/ScifiIsSrsBsns

[Whelan]

I've been playing Kingdoms of Amalaur: Reckoning. There's a woman I've been mentally calling Aeryn Sun for no discernible reason.

[You, sir, name?]

I've been playing Kingdoms of Amalaur: Reckoning. There's a woman I've been mentally calling Aeryn Sun for no discernible reason.

I've only seen the trailer for this game. It's narrated by Claudia Black.

The plot thickens.

[roband]

I have bad memories of Farscape from BBC2 12 years ago, or so.

But spouses/partners should be forced to watch Firefly. It took two attempts to get past the first 5 minutes, but once she was in - she loved it.

[Panonadin]

I tried to watch battlestar and got about 2 seasons in before it turend into "days of our lives". Had to stop. I've seen all firefly has to offer, but maybe I'll try and get the misses to watch that next.

[Mighty Jalapeno]

I have bad memories of Farscape

I don't get it.

[roband]

I have bad memories of Farscape

I don't get it.

I just didn't like it when I was 10 years old. They used to rotate it, with episodes of Buffy. I much preferred Buffy.

[Panonadin]

I just didn't like it when I was 10 years old. They used to rotate it, with episodes of Buffy. I much preferred Buffy.

Because of the actress?

[roband]

I don't know why I preferred it. Maybe vampires were cooler than aliens at that point in my life.

[SecondTalon]

I don't know why I preferred it. Maybe vampires were cooler than aliens at that point in my life.

With.. no offense meant to either you or Buffy, your 10 year old self was an idiot.

[OBrien]

Ah, but remember that vampires didn't sparkle back then.

[Menacing Spike]

I wonder why every internet community I know shittens severely over the years. Be it 4chan, reddit, bay12, whatever, the substantifique moelle seeps away with time, replaced by stale memes, drama, and boring people.

Strangely enough, those that start shitty enough (videogame forums...) do not seem to increase in shittiness over time.

[OBrien]

It's because you've matured and realised how shit they've always been. Anything you remember as being good is either rose tinted with nostalgia or a constructed memory.

... or, at least, that's what happened with me and 4chan.

[Menacing Spike]

It's because you've matured and realised how shit they've always been. Anything you remember as being good is either rose tinted with nostalgia or a constructed memory.

... or, at least, that's what happened with me and 4chan.

No, I checked. With archives for instance: high quality threads get far more concentrated as one goes further back.

[OBrien]

Your checking was a constructed memory.

[UniqueScreenname]

My friend didn't know who Edgar Allen Poe was. *shakes head*

[Menacing Spike]

Your checking was a constructed memory.

I dismiss my rememberance of this post as a constructed memory.

Bahahahahahaha

[Giant Speck]

Oh, shiatsu neck massager... I love you. <3