星期一, 12月 12, 2011

Biologist checklist

出處 1: http://dna-protein.blogspot.com/2011/07/you-know-youre.html
出處 2: http://bayblab.blogspot.com/2008/01/you-know-youre-biologist-when.html

You know you´re ...
... a biologist when
You open the toothpaste with one hand. - sometimes

You wash your hands before and after using to the washroom. - nope

When you hear tween, you think of the surfactant not the age group. - check!

For you, media is something which increases your culture. - check!
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You can identify organs on roadkills. - sometimes

You have a callus on your thumb. - nope. On my index finger middle finger, tho.

You use the word "aliquot" in regular sentences. - check! especially useful when cooking.

Sometimes you momentarily vanish from social activities because of a timepoint. - check!

You've never worn a clean lab coat. - nope. I rare wear them so they are pretty clean.

You don't fear rodents, rodents fear you. DOUBLE check!

You say "orders of magnitude" in regular sentences. - check!

You flinch when you hear the word "significant". - check!

Showing up at 10AM and having a coffee is a productive day. - nope

You can't stand god-like physicians, while secretly wishing you had their job. - check!

You're very good at diluting things. - check!

You're also very good at transferring small amounts of liquid between containers. - check!

You are fed up of people saying alcohol, when they mean ethanol. - nope. I don't really mind.

You hear the word ‘Molar’ and teeth are the last thing on your mind. - check!

You say “conjugation” instead of “sex”, and "pili" sounds dirty. - nope

SOB is not an insult, it's what you grow your bugs in. - check!

You say "mills" and "megs". - check!

No-one in your family has any idea what you do. - Double check!

You can make a short film in power point. - check!

You consider a green laser pointer to be science bling. - nope. Blue is even cooler.

A falcon is not a bird.... - check!

And you have 5 of them with different types of water. - check!

When your fruits go bad and you get fruit flies, you can't help but check their eye colour - nope

You own invitrogen t-shirts and actually wear them. - no Invitrogen, but I do have GeneTools t-shirts.

You think that drosophila geneticists have a good sense of humour. - nope

You refer to your children as the F1 (I LOVE this one:-)). - check. I don't have one but I refer to any children as F1 :p

You've suffered carpal tunnel from the pipetman. - I did.

You've used kimwipes as kleenex. - check!

A timer clipped to the hip is not only practical, but dead sexy. - nope

You've played Battleship using tip boxes. - nope

The front pages of Science is your light reading. - check!

You think the following is a quality insult: "I've seen cells more competent than you!". - check!

The scent of latex reminds you of work, not play. - check!

You're looking for a cooking book by maniatis. - check!

You've made dry ice grenades (so true:-)). - nope

You've lost many friends to ice grenades...- nope