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Joined April 2009
Lessons Codified by History, (or at least by the History Posters) c/o Jean Futrell #ASMS2023
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Visiting Fred McLafferty’s ‘Giants of MS poster’ with @yingge2121 in the History section by registration! (Here at #ASMS2023 all week!) Watching her introduce her students and postdocs to their academic grandfather was charming.
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In an auspicious harbinger of #ASMS2023, on my way outta a customer site this afternoon to go to the airport I saw a copy of “Interpretation of Mass Spectra” on a free book pile (…consequently I have ANOTHER one). (Maybe I’ll fix up the binding and leave it by history posters!)
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(Every-time it is like a Gene Parmesan reveal in its being unnecessary but perfect in deployment.) youtu.be/1ZMNujDjGD4
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When the two dogs inside you work together to yield a goofy delight, is that not truly the best case scenario? (I appreciate the planning involved with a certain kind of practical prestidigitation.)
A few months back I got into the habit of hiding bags of nuts around the office area of a colleague who I peer manage toward facilitating rapid positive reinforcement in a hilarious and magical way and particularly before I am out of town this is tricky because they gotta be hid!
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As part of software product ownership, I just had to write a help section for a module of the software I was technically also on the hook for overhauling after some customer insight feedback; which meant step zero was the overhaul. SURPRISE: BONUS WORK!
✨💖✨It may be a lab activity today to create this as a broader alert noise. youtube.com/watch?v=wAADLJQZ…
There is a picture of Nobel Laureate Ahmed Zewail at Strada [it was for a time the nicest coffee near but not too near the chemistry department, so useful for meetings] in his autobiography and I had borrowed it from my dad while on a boat on the Nile and I was suddenly like:
I believe the descriptor for the face my colleague made watching me casually but quickly root around barehanded in a box full of classy dry ice pellets for an incoming sample would be “horrified”. (Ya’ gotta get in and get out, it’s not like I was grasping anything too tightly.)
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