Notices by Sam Levine (srlevine@neuromatch.social)

@blue I didn't see a giant beaker, but I did see a 4 L graduated cylinder and yes they do? I think I have one in the bio glassware.

(the fact I can guess the size of that glassware at a glance maybe says weird things about me)

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@hollie Going to mooch over here tonight if I have anything to add to the feed that isn't in response to someone else.

Shows smoking but has someone (and law enforcement at that!) immediatly speak against it. Very transgressive for the 80's, no?

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Eyes, liver, kidneys, heart all eaten. So the slugs somehow know to go for the high calorie parts? That's a bit unusual for an invertebrate...

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Oh that was gross. Also obviously a cheap rubber mask, but still gross.

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Dude, are you seriously sitting in your car watching teenagers make-out in the parking lot and critiquing their technique? Weirdo. And not in a good way like most people reading this.

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I love when I get CA prop 65 warnings on stuff for the lab. I assure you Mettler-Toledo that anything I weight on these balances has a far higher chance of causing cancer than the balances themselves do.

If I knew about the UK bit of the plot I would have suggested a "sun doesn't set on the British empire" joke/quip in the dialog for a bingo card square...

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Chekhov reference!

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"I hope there's nothing dishonest about it"

"Oh, no, it's just a legal device"

Lady I'm sure you've had a bunch of red flags at this point, but him putting your name on the line for his money to avoid his creditors should be a big NOPE.

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I don't think a ladder is what you need here...

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We got to the moon! (I assume that's where we are anyway)

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Prediction for the rest of the movie: after they get back and we fast forward to the "current day" moon landing the Selenties are justifiable annoyed and take out their wrath on the American men as the spiritual heirs of the original British mission.

Death all around! Yes!

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@jonny thanks for this, might join in this week since I'm not attempting to make dinner and missing the entire start of the movie (which happened last week)

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Ooo, based on the names we have at least two more women in the cast! If they get named int he movie we could get a Bechdel pass people!

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I'm all discombobulated this morning. For the last few years showers at home have mostly been at night and meant winding down for the day, any morning showers were typically taken at work. But the shower I had easiest access to is no longer as close to work with the move so I showered at home this morning. I might have to either resign myself to showering Sunday nights or seeing if I can make it a habit to use the other shower I know of on campus (though that one is much riskier since it's single person and therefore could easily be tied up by someone else in a pattern I don't yet know).

I have just had the single worst yoga experience of my life (and yes, I am back at my desk 30 minutes early).

(spoiler & CW for COVID/infectious disease discussion, and personal boundaries)

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Anyone have experience splitting a costco membership with someone (only one other person) who doesn't live in your household? To our advantage we have the same last name...

Do they notice if you always shop at different ones?

@intransitivelie so this is an example of what I'd consider a cute prank?

They probably sent an email out to their user list that said "issues with 600 MHz instrument" this sort of thing happens all of the time and that school has multiple instruments so at most it elicits a response of "oh, I should read the email before I book instrument time today". And the link goes to something that is immediatly apparent as joke for anyone familiar with the instruments. And they did a bunch of cheesy photo shop to really run the joke into the ground and write a whole narrative about it while using terms that get tossed around about major NMR disasters.

Another Sam is weird story: I realized I wasn't going to have enough Dr Bronner's so I looked around the apartment for something else that might work and decided that the liquid dish soap that is "lavender-mint" would probably be fine since I use peppermint & lavender Dr Bronners mixed together and the ingredient list looked reasonable. And lo and behold it seems to have worked well (I also chucked in plenty of baking soda + water in with the soap). It seemed to foam up better than Dr Bronners so maybe I'll try it again? Though I don't have much of this left either...