Notices by Sam Levine (srlevine@neuromatch.social), page 2

@quinn That's often just another way of saying solitary confinement, which is effectively a form of torture...

@Infoseepage Was this a Twilight reference?

#Monsterdon

Someone in the local buy nothing group just posted an unopened pack of sterile 90 mm dishes and a couple of individually wrapped transfer pipets. I have so many questions.

(the least of which is why are you buying 90 mm and not the far more standard standard 10 cm?)

Serious question, was I supposed to get high in between work and turning this on? Because it certainly seems that way (though I did skip the first 7ish minutes, so maybe the weird dancing & music and miniature people make sense in some context?)

#Chewbaccadon

@diazona I got home only a little late, and might join in (it's playing now anyway), do you mind if I respond to this post to keep stuff off the local feed? (I'll untag you)

#Chewbaccadon

"There must have been trouble"

Anyone else have the urge to say "trouble in river city"?

#Chewbaccadon

It both recites the 17 volume penal code and keeps you clean? I have so many questions about the designer of that gadget.

#Chewbaccadon

I am terribly fascinated and should have left work earlier, since I'm now stuck in my sweaty bike clothing. If I bail that's the reason.

"Pocket size aquarium" it's like those little things with the buttons where you move the plastic fish around with bubbles? Anyone else remember those?

#Chewbaccadon

I appreciate the costumer who realized that wookies absolutely wear aprons because having to clean food out of fur would be no fun.

#Chewbaccadon

That look unfortunately like the wookie is being given a perm.

#Chewbaccadon

stir whip, stir whip, whip whip stir

That's like when I was going to step aerobics class and getting my butt kicked by a bunch of women in their 50s (I was in my 30s).

stir stir whip, beat beat stir? is that the second sequence? I was never good at this...

#Chewbaccadon

Are we supposed to believe that the voice and the person in the wookie's mind are in english and a human? That seems odd. Shouldn't it be in whatever the wookie language is and the alluring figure be a wookie?

#Chewbaccadon

Lesson learned the hard way: if you are making compound libraries/master plates and there is even the slightest chance you'll want to verify structures by NMR use a deuterated solvent. I promise it's worth the extra expense.

-Signed the person who didn't make the plates, but is currently running NMRs with a significant amount of DMA in them and trying to play spot the peak to verify the compounds.

#Chemistry #ChemiVerse

Do you live in Orange County and/or Los Angeles (CA, USA) and could you use some free "creative" gear (mostly photography & musical recording stuff) this guy does a free give away annually for stuff he mostly gets gifted by vendors:

https://www.lebroskiproject.org/home/free-stuff

Applications (It's name, contact information, and why you want the item, nothing very elaborate) are due in two weeks and opened this afternoon.

@packetcat Maybe @HauntedOwlbear has an idea? I know they do write about/review some games themselves.

@schratze Sharks sort of have infinite teeth? (they all get replaced continuously): https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sharks-never-run-out-of-teeth/

Apparently there are two types of mosquitoes in socal right now. The type that bit me a few weeks ago where the bites itch but are tolerable. And the one that bit me Sunday & Monday. Where the bites seem like nothing for the first 24 h and then get so bad clothing irritates them. The one on my upper arm is right below where my t-shirt sleeve ends and the hem made it into a giant welt yesterday. And I have three more of this type that started itching last night/this morning. And the itching is really bad.

And all I want to do is scratch even though I know it won't help and will make things worse in the long run.

Took me a sadly long time to figure out the tiny figure at 2, 1.5 cm in today's xkcd was a kid with a pair of heelies*. I haven't seen any kids wearing those in years!

Apparently this should be spelled heelys, but that's also the brand name.

#XKCD

@GNUmatic @AnarchoNinaWrites This is my favorite one to send people: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/police-are-not-primarily-crime-fighters-according-data-2022-11-02/