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Somehow scientists don't seem like the people to drive a Ferrari no matter how rich they are. I'd expect a Volvo or a Mercedes, well built cars with luxury but no high speed deathtraps.

That could work too. But between charging times and the relatively limited amount of places you can charge them at they're not too flexible.

You don't want to own a Prius. My mom has one and complaints about it constantly. It's economic but otherwise a terrible car from what she says.



The again, she traded in a Mercedes for her Prius because she wanted to be more green in her choice of car so she's still sorely missing the power and luury that her small Mercedes had.

For what it's worth, my sister also hates it with a passion.




Then again, my sister is about the most aggressive driver that I know. Not problematic or anything but she does like putting the pedal to the metal

Protein, I totally searched for that paper until I saw it hasn't passed review yet. Where are you submitting?

The Chemistry Nobel Prize went to MM/QM people; my research now is QM method development and my last position was MM method development so yay for theoreticians getting credit for the second time... ever!

Normally the way the chemistry one works is that loads of people develop some new cool synthesis thing, and then the committee just waits till enough of them have died that they can award the price to 2-3 people. When it goes to synthetic people, anyway.

Also, while we're on that topic, Cambridge TheoChem e-mailed me and said I should be talking to the Cavendish as they are better suited to the research I want to do. So I'll be applying for a postgrad at the lab that has spawned twenty-nine Nobel laureates. If they respond to my e-mail, anyway. Or, well, I'll apply anyway, but I'd rather talk to them first.

RJ's friend has loads of Volvos.

Journal of Proteome Research. A good journal, but not one that gets readership outside the field. However given the topic, there's not much reason to try and appeal to a broader audience anyway. Still it's the first thing with my name on it in a while. I'm more likely to find the acknowledgement page as of late "thanks to someprotienguy who ran the samples and did the data analysis"

Let's hope so, that sounds like one heck of an exciting opportunity.

We looked briefly at Volvo, still too expensive for what we wanted though, and we've been happy with Toyota. Plus the wife is fiercely loyal to Toyota, which didn't hurt.


Edited, Oct 14th 2013 1:30pm by someproteinguy

Mmm hmm, that's why we like them too. I used to like working and fixing my old jeep, but since the kids came around I don't really have the time or place to fiddle with cars anymore. Best to get something that doesn't break in the first place.

Try not to kill yourself ok?

I.. err.. I'll leave this discussion to Protein since you've lost me completely.

Really I'm not a whole lot better off to say anything. I mostly just chop them into bits and fling them into an electrical field. The nuances of protein folding and micro-environments and active sites and such are nearly completely over my head. Though I could imagine you could get a fair amount of space on paper used up talking about that kind of stuff.

Edited, Oct 14th 2013 2:08pm by someproteinguy

Sounds like more fun than dealing with stubborn science types.

Edited, Oct 14th 2013 2:49pm by someproteinguy