Meet an electrophoresis gel box and some agarose. Currently absent from this dynamic duo is a very vital power source. A power source I am still waiting on before I can start doing super fancy science things like PCR or gel electrophoresis.
Science is about 35% waiting for Fisher or VWR to get your important and vital piece out of backorder so you can actually get something to do. The other 60% or so is just trying to get the damn thing you ordered to work.
Another horrifying fact, that little piece of plastic box that sort of resembles a complicated piece of Tupperware costs about $500. Yeah really. I've spent double what my wedding cost just buying things to set this lab up.
How about the rest of you? What evil things do you get up to to pay the bills? Anyone else a science nerd out there?
5 comments:
That is pretty cool! :)
I'd love to hear more about what you do. Sadly, I'm not a science geek. I'm a closet computer geek working in social services.
sadly that gel box is an all to familiar sight. i'm a biotech masters student so i am also well tuned in the art of science geekery!
I'm somewhat of a science nerd. But more of the engineering types. Or that's what I try to be.
What exactly do you do with that apparatus?
I work in marketing, in an agency so the work varies project by project.
I spend about 50% of my time with little to do (read: blogging) and 50% of my time really stressed with way too much work on. Blah.
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