{"id":214,"date":"2009-02-04T06:39:20","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T06:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2009\/02\/04\/on_being_a_stranger_in_a_strange_land\/"},"modified":"2009-02-04T06:39:20","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T06:39:20","slug":"on_being_a_stranger_in_a_strange_land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2009\/02\/04\/on_being_a_stranger_in_a_strange_land\/","title":{"rendered":"On being a stranger in a strange land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made the comment in the lab just now that Australia is the only place I&#8217;ve worked in where it&#8217;s not unusual to get through three bucket loads of ice in a day. <\/p>\n<p>\nOther pointers that we&#8217;re not in <del>Kansas<\/del> Leeds (hello Tony!) any more:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When you get back to the lab after Christmas your NaOH\/SDS is still in solution<\/li>\n<li>You leave media on the bench to warm up<\/li>\n<li>You delay leaving work not because you don&#8217;t want to go home but because there&#8217;s air con in the office<\/li>\n<li>We have shaking incubators especially advertised to cool <em>down<\/em> to 25&deg;C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Men wear labcoats (only if they really have to) with the bottom two buttons undone so they don&#8217;t appear indecent<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nI&#8217;m sure <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/evolvingthoughts\/\">others<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/people\/U5D050A25\/blog\">might<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/people\/UC90C473B\/profile\">think<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/people\/U027AAF41\/profile\">of<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/hubs\/sydney\/people\">more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\nUpdate:<\/p>\n<p>\nCompare and contrast&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.friendfeed.com\/cd47e4dab26ad779d8d5c3de32e54b2f9f9f6201\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"246\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.friendfeed.com\/a62c48cce734271aee4afde552df5bf2bfb4c17e\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"186\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made the comment in the lab just now that Australia is the only place I&#8217;ve worked in where it&#8217;s not unusual to get through three bucket loads of ice in a day. Other pointers that we&#8217;re not in Kansas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2009\/02\/04\/on_being_a_stranger_in_a_strange_land\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}