More Science to Titillate You Wow, I never use Internet Explorer, but right now, I am. Please don't hate me. It is only because the computer I'm on doesn't have anything else installed, and I don't really feel downloading Firefox. I hate not having tabs. How last millenium. Hasn't explorer come out with tabs yet? I thought I heard something about that. This one is 6.0.2. Is that old? I don't care in any case. Yes, it's that time again. Time, my lovelies, for more photophysics experiments. Time for more bored updates from me on a shitty keyboard. But it is one film. Let's hope it behaves. When I turned on the UV/Vis Spectrophotometer a bit ago, it made this noise as if it were dying and protesting something to me all at once. It doesn't bode well. See, usually when it first turns on I don't open the sample chamber. I did today. I didn't think it mattered. I'm not sure. Maybe that strange noise was totally unrelated. But I turned it off and back on. Sometimes this machine has a bad hair day, and what can you do? Ah well. Okay, has it been 10 minutes yet? Becaues if it has, I can run the absorbance. Yes! Now I'm running the autozero. All right, now the background sample is in. It is just a microscope slide. Are you bored yet? I am. Oh, I went to an interesting talk today. Nanoscience, of course. This guy from Vancouver was talking about his group's research on molecules that change their properties (geometry, binding, wavelength they absorb light) when you shine light on them or send through a current. He kept mentioning tickling the molecules, and there was a mention of penetration depth as well. Perfect fodder for immature, socially undeveloped nerds like me. They are building a killer new building up there in Vancouver, and it would be a dream come true to work there. Vancouver is very nice. The absorbance is done, now the fluorescence is running. I am not very happy with the results. Those pesky results. Oh, and every once in awhile we have a journal club instead of group meeting. Everyone in the group gives an oh so exciting journal article to our advisor, who then picks three people to present it that week. Well, guess who got picked? Me! Oh, the injustice. I'm so busy! But I suppose it's my own fault. I knew it was a good paper when I submitted it. You see, there is an art form to picking a paper you know she won't pick, but isn't so bad that she detects you are avoiding presenting. I mean, it has to relate somewhat to our group. I can't give her a paper on some organic synthesis; we're physical chemists in materials, you know? Okay, my shit's done. I'm out. |