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A real conversation
thedeadhaji, Jul 05 2008
*phone rings*
haji - "hello?" kevin, lab technician - "hi, this is kevin" haji - "oh hi kevin" kevin - "So you want some gas?" haji - "yea, I do want gas!" kevin - "well I have it for you here" haji - "I'll be down there in 2 minutes"
end convo
I had left a note on his door since I wanted a cylinder of Argon gas, but haha the isolated covo was quite funny.
so i was making a reaction solution today in the lab.
chemicals used: Toluene, Ferrocene, and Pyradine.
Holy SHIT Pyradine smells like ass it was so bad what the fucking hell. A lot of you probably know the foulness of Sulfur, but shit this was just a completley different type of shit smell. Sulfur smells like some rotten shit but Pyridine smells like what i mentioned before - ASS.
It's so somber and quiet here, after 5 days in Paris of mayhem and logic-defying activities. Definitely melancholy after having such a great time with everyone over the past few days.
Gotta shower, write a presentation I have to give tomorrow, and then I'll start working on BWWI summaries.
someone down the hall in my building died this week. Dude was in germany or something and drowned I believe. He was set to graduate today too.
It's not like I knew him well at all, in fact I'd seen him around but never spoken a word to him. All I knew about him was that he was rather obnixious and destroyed the kitchenware in the building. Honestly I had nothing to really 'like' about him and several reasons to rather dislike him, but it feels very strange.
This is the second time someone of my age that I moderately knew has died - first time was 2nd yr of college when a girl committed suicide with cyanide in her room, the week before the year was about to begin. I actually knew her decently well from a bunch of us studying in the library together our freshman year - she was a happy girl and didn't show signs at all. I guess being a Chem E will put all sorts of stress on you though
Today was a rainy cool day in cambridge - after a days worth of lab work and a bike with a busted front tube, I got a haircut and then rode the busted bike back up the hill. Not the smartest idea but it seemed wise at that time. I fixed the bike up with the inner tube I bought, but the bike pump my friend lent me would only work on mtn.bikes (i think you can switch the valve around and such but it didn't occur to me at that time).
It's 9pm and I am meant to go to the college bar for my friend's 21st birthday. I think she is going down tonight, but anyways, b/c my bike was nonfunctional I had to walk the 30 minute walk with an umbrella. Slow, slow trip. I get there, congratulate her on her 21st, etc, the day coincides with a lot of the cambridge colleges' graduation dates, so my college bar is filled with pple who have graduated and are having drinks, along with their friends, etc. I say congrats congrats to a couple other friends who were around who finished their 3rd and final year - one was going to London for Medschool, one was going to Panama for zoology research.
Becuase I have to catch a 5:30am train tomorrow, I excuse myself at 10:30 to walk back up the hill. Halfway back I am in a dark and seculded passageway with minimal lighting. It was then that I noticed a small frog hopping its way across the path. It dawned on me that this was really the first time I had seen a frog since my childhood days in Japan during the rainy season of June, when I was enrolled in elementary school there briefly.
The moist smell of rain in the air, the heavy but rather cool atmosphere and the frog hopping along brought back memories of old that I hadn't visited in quite some time.
edit: to elaborate, now that I'm somewhat back to my senses (11:20 now)
after getting back to my room i went into "collapse onto ground and start drooling saliva onto the floor b/c it is too difficult to sit up, or actually spit it into the can. Although I don't recall, the pOtAtOes on the floor in the area indicated that I must have thrown up there.
After pulling myself into bed, I definitely threw up a couple more times and missed the can along the way, I definitely remember thinking "oh shit I hit my suitcase oh well". Woke up to find that yup, two suitcases had been hit mildly by pOtAtOes and digestive fluids along with the floor. Well luckily the floor took most of the damage.
I ended up cleaning up after myself (which really wasnt so bad b/c I hadnt eaten anything at all since 1pm yesterday, it was all liquid - ie alcohol) at 8am in just my boxers lolololol I had somehow taken off my shirt before going to sleep, and oh I definitely remember my left chest being wet so I probably got some residual mouth-excrements on there after regurgitating onto the suitcases.
I took a shower changed the sheets and slept till 10:30.
i am drunk to the point that I almost crashed into a light po;le bitcking back to my room, and I to;ld my coat club aptain that anm drunk to the poin that I wouldn tbe able to goet itup.
He was with his GF, who was a cox cfor one ofhte threxs. hopeuflly the amount of types adds to the legitimacy of myu intoxication.
So often I find myself needing to kill time for 1-2 hours while waiting for the CVD furnace to heat up, or for the reaction to run, etc.
So For the past few days I've been trying to see if I can get onto bnet one way or another. I brought the sc directory with me so that I don't have to install it, and then got the iccup registry patch to see if I can connect to abyss.
No good, says I don't have 6112 port.
Today it dawned on me to try chaoslauncher to see if I can remap 6112 onto 8080 and try to get past this firewall block on the lab computers (it's so we don't run torrents and shit I assume lawl). Trying to find the dl link lead me to make this thread.
Well fellas, after trying a few times, I've managed to connect to iccup (I didn't bring a registry with a legit cdkey with me). Whooooo sc in the department laboratory baby!
edit:I'd post a ss or somethign but you wouldn't be able to tell since it's just a normal icc screen
I come into the lab at 9:30am b/c my supervisor is whipping my ass after I did jack shit for 1.5 weeks b/c of the final races of the yr for rowing + the fact that our syringe killed itself.
Now I come here ready to go, and what's this? My friend who also uses the furnace (carbon nanotube reactor) has received a notice from the safety officer and the furnace says "DO NOT USE" b/c his hydrogen injection or something was a cause of serious halth hazard or something, and I have to wait till my supervisor can contact the officer and get word on wtf is going on - so I've set up the reactor but I can't actually run it, I've been sitting around here for an hour+ doing nothing but shit on TL, and I'm probably going to be like this for another hour too wtf ok I should just go to lunch or something. Comeon forGG stop sucking so hard plz. God it is good to have admin access on these lab machines I fucking installed GOM Player ffs it's awesome lol but yea it is gay that I wanted to get the reaction synthesis done quickly and bugger the fuck off but now I have to stay here a while till we get clearance and shit it's so gay and I have a presentation in 2 weeks right after i get back from BWWI and I've only done like 1 successful reaction while I SHOULD have like 3 or 4 by now fuck I hate when you get set back by equipment failure and shit fuck oh well what can I do go forgg fighting~~