Bored Druid Thread: The Next GenerationFollow

It's one of the best selling albums of all time, I mean I'm no fan of Micheal Jackson but you won't hear me deny that Thriller is an amazing album (although that's all because of Eddie Van Halen's riff on Beat It of course ).

Although I have to say Rumours gets an edge for me simply because of the backstory, it's crazy they even managed to make an album at all.

There's no 3DS emulator anyway, so no need for that.


And I'm not sure I like the new Hunter x Hunter. It's overly cheerful so far and completely lacking the darkness that the original anime showed. I'm also wondering how they handle the death and destruction that the story is filled with. It was kind of accepted and normal already in the original but this overly cheerful tone and mass murder, ripping out hearts and blowing up limbs are not things I see working well together.

My life, 5-8 a.m., 4-6 p.m., and in NJ no less.

If you're into great backstory, then listen to The Traveling Wilburys and spend an afternoon jumping links on Wikipedia and reading about them. Read the sad story about the guitar in the rocking chair on End of the Line, or about the Bruce Springsteen references in Tweeter and the Monkey Man. Among a lot of other stuff. And listen to some great music.

I think Tweeter and the Monkey Man is my second favorite Dylan song, after Tangled up in Blue.


You need a promotion to upper management and a McMansion on campus somewhere to live in as part of your new contract.

At least in New Jersey you guys have a good reason to rebuild/build better stuff now.

Would you still get paid if you can't get to work because the highway is washed away?

Well, I'm on salary 3 days a week, and that's supposed to be changing to 5.

So... maybe, sorta?

3 8-hour days, essentially. I've been working fulltime since at least June, possibly May, just by submitting additional hours on top of it. Which just means I work full time without the full time benefits or job security.

Yeah it sucks, but it's not like I've had any other options. So yeah, I commute 3-4 hours a day to a job where I don't get benefits or have job security. Yay!

I should say that I HAVE signed an offer letter for a full-time position. But that was two weeks ago, and there still hasn't been any movement there...

He does look west coast, no goofy mustache either which is a win.

But I'm not working on anything that's interesting enough to win a noble prize. The latest submission with my name on it: "Accurate Label-Free Protein Quantitation with High- and Low-Resolution Mass Spectrometers"

Woo hoo.

I could TL;DR it into something like "don't waste your money on an expensive instrument if you just want to do routine analyses."

Basically; it's a little surprising, but not really so much so. It's the kind of practical methods development stuff that has to get done at some point, but that no one really likes to do (or read about for that matter, so we'll see if anyone accepts it ).

Most stuff takes a long time to get a prize for, it's just the way they set it up. You'll have to confirm anything discovered and that could take a while (as in just happening for that darn boson, which is why I'm guessing he got it now). You also want to give a prize to something that's hard some kind of large/transformational effect on the field.

Sometimes it can take a while for the effects of a discovery to trickle out. Like in medicine it can easily take 15 years to go from the initial discovery to a treatment, and another few years to get people actually using the pill. These guys who found something really interesting in their initial post-doc are getting rewards for it once they're old and gray. At that point you use that leverage to get yourself a better appointment at a bigger name school, run your own department, get all kinds of funding, trophy wife, Ferrari, etc.

Tis the way of things.

Edited, Oct 14th 2013 12:08pm by someproteinguy