My Mondays

On Mondays I have to arrive at work at the ungodly hour of 9:30 in order to attend the weekly ICCB group meeting, where two or three researchers give presentations about their current work. It's always way over my head, but I take notes anyway. There are usually at least a few little hooks that spark my interest for further investigation, though the relevance of said hooks to my job is not always immediately obvious, least of all to me.

Just for my ego's sake, here are my notes from today. (Oddly, I am always the only laptop-wielder in the crowd. This would make me much less self-conscious if my laptop were, um, cleaner. Ergh.)

A new method for blah blah etc. Something about microarrays. @whee.

People are like cats. You can get them to look at your slides by twirling your red laser pointer over the bullet points as you hit them. It tickles one's ancient neanderthal sense of prey-tracking.

This is interesting... hook-bait-fish system. The "bait" is a small molecule tool you use to glue together stuff? Protein and summat.

Oh no!! Someone's wristwatch is shining a white circle on the right wall, and its jiggling is competition for the red laser pointer. People are being diverted, distracted. Now it crawls down the left sleeve of the blue sweatjacket of the young woman seated in front of me.

printing: attaching a small molecule onto a slide.

So is "hit" just a numerical threshold, then? If so, it should be something I oughtta prog into HTS module.

An example protocol: Do this, then do that, wash, scan, wash, deedle, beeble. It's a chronological list of actions.