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Jun. 21st, 2006 01:14 pmThis article is almost too painfully stupid to make fun of.
Not that I'd let a thing like that stop me, though. ( HOTT XXX STUPIDITY CLIK HERE!! )
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This article, on the other hand, actually is so dumb and pointless, it's only worth shaking your head over. But hey, if all conservatives were this stupid, we wouldn't have to worry about the GOP, would we?
The one and only gripe I make about it is his stupid "Well, if you're a physicist, why do you get to sound off about global warming as if you know anything about it?" Excuse me, but the ID folks screamed to the heavens that they had some two hundred scientists signing up to support them instead of evolution, they didn't make any bones about the fact that not one of their scientific experts was actually an expert in the field of biology, evolutionary biology (okay, that one makes sense), genetics, cladistics, archaeology, etc etc etc.
(note: I don't put "scientists" in quotes the way some conservative folk do when they dislike the positions that scientists take--I may dislike their politics, but if you have a PhD in Chemistry, you're a scientist.)
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And one last rant from Miss McRanty Pants.
Today, the fire inspectors came. My boss and I have been told countless times that we do shit wrong by these people. Three inspections ago, we had left flammable materials in a freezer not built to protect flammable stuff; our bad, we started storing it in the flammable-material-okay freezer in another lab. Then it was that we hadn't put the dates of purchased chemicals on things in the fireproof cabinet. Okay, we'll do that. Then it was that we didn't have the date that said chemicals were opened on the bottles. ::MUCH TEETH GRINDING:: Okay, now we have.
They come today, and I'm expecting no problems. I mixed some 70% EtOH, but I put the pure stuff away in the cabinet under the hood. We hadn't fixed any slides in a week, so there was no MeOH-Acetone in the wrong freezer. Every bottle has been labelled a billion times over. I peek around my desk to watch them go through the other lab benches and then get to the hood.
Where they stop and start frowning. When the fire inspectors stall, they are looking for to make trouble with you. I jump up to forestall what whirlwind I can, and ask if there is a problem. They hold up a bottle of anhydrous isopropanol with no date on it. They tell me it needs one. I tell them a) I know that from being yelled at every six months by them, and b) there are initials on that bottle that do not belong to my PI, which means the bottle is not ours.
This guy starts pulling almost a mafioso type racket, telling me that "If it was opened only a year ago, okay, but if not," then he shrugs, letting ominous words linger. I tell him again that this hood is not ours exclusively; the chemicals in it not entirely ours. This does not seem to matter. If I can't find a date on when this bottle that has nothing to do with me and that isn't in any record I have was opened, our lab gets a citation.
I finally figure out whose are the initials on the bottle and point the inspectors in the direction of another lab's technician. This technician goes back there with them and they talk, I ignore it because it is now Not My Problem. Then there is laughter and an exchance in Russian. The accent I couldn't place with the lead inspector was apparently Russian, which the technician from the other lab is. There is none of the stern "This is your fault for having your lab space docketed around the hood that's not yours" lecturing or threats. Didn't see a single thing written down, no harsh language or severe frowns.
All because they are both Russian and I and my coworkers are not. That is so fucking unfair it hurts.
Not that I'd let a thing like that stop me, though. ( HOTT XXX STUPIDITY CLIK HERE!! )
This article, on the other hand, actually is so dumb and pointless, it's only worth shaking your head over. But hey, if all conservatives were this stupid, we wouldn't have to worry about the GOP, would we?
The one and only gripe I make about it is his stupid "Well, if you're a physicist, why do you get to sound off about global warming as if you know anything about it?" Excuse me, but the ID folks screamed to the heavens that they had some two hundred scientists signing up to support them instead of evolution, they didn't make any bones about the fact that not one of their scientific experts was actually an expert in the field of biology, evolutionary biology (okay, that one makes sense), genetics, cladistics, archaeology, etc etc etc.
(note: I don't put "scientists" in quotes the way some conservative folk do when they dislike the positions that scientists take--I may dislike their politics, but if you have a PhD in Chemistry, you're a scientist.)
And one last rant from Miss McRanty Pants.
Today, the fire inspectors came. My boss and I have been told countless times that we do shit wrong by these people. Three inspections ago, we had left flammable materials in a freezer not built to protect flammable stuff; our bad, we started storing it in the flammable-material-okay freezer in another lab. Then it was that we hadn't put the dates of purchased chemicals on things in the fireproof cabinet. Okay, we'll do that. Then it was that we didn't have the date that said chemicals were opened on the bottles. ::MUCH TEETH GRINDING:: Okay, now we have.
They come today, and I'm expecting no problems. I mixed some 70% EtOH, but I put the pure stuff away in the cabinet under the hood. We hadn't fixed any slides in a week, so there was no MeOH-Acetone in the wrong freezer. Every bottle has been labelled a billion times over. I peek around my desk to watch them go through the other lab benches and then get to the hood.
Where they stop and start frowning. When the fire inspectors stall, they are looking for to make trouble with you. I jump up to forestall what whirlwind I can, and ask if there is a problem. They hold up a bottle of anhydrous isopropanol with no date on it. They tell me it needs one. I tell them a) I know that from being yelled at every six months by them, and b) there are initials on that bottle that do not belong to my PI, which means the bottle is not ours.
This guy starts pulling almost a mafioso type racket, telling me that "If it was opened only a year ago, okay, but if not," then he shrugs, letting ominous words linger. I tell him again that this hood is not ours exclusively; the chemicals in it not entirely ours. This does not seem to matter. If I can't find a date on when this bottle that has nothing to do with me and that isn't in any record I have was opened, our lab gets a citation.
I finally figure out whose are the initials on the bottle and point the inspectors in the direction of another lab's technician. This technician goes back there with them and they talk, I ignore it because it is now Not My Problem. Then there is laughter and an exchance in Russian. The accent I couldn't place with the lead inspector was apparently Russian, which the technician from the other lab is. There is none of the stern "This is your fault for having your lab space docketed around the hood that's not yours" lecturing or threats. Didn't see a single thing written down, no harsh language or severe frowns.
All because they are both Russian and I and my coworkers are not. That is so fucking unfair it hurts.
