{"id":231,"date":"2009-03-01T04:46:51","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T04:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2009\/03\/01\/on_precision\/"},"modified":"2009-03-01T04:46:51","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T04:46:51","slug":"on_precision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2009\/03\/01\/on_precision\/","title":{"rendered":"On precision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great things about clearing out an office, or a lab, is re-discovering the stuff you rescued from when someone <em>else<\/em> was clearing out a lab. I found these in my box this morning:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pommiebastards\/3318385890\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3503\/3318385890_8828c9cf02.jpg\" alt=\"very precise pipettes\" width=\"378\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nThey&#8217;re glass pipettes, graduated in 1 \u00b5l increments.<\/p>\n<p>\nNot only are they incredibly neat &#8212; at least to a geek like me &#8212; but they are also incredibly precise. Slightly more precise, even, than Jenny&#8217;s ultra-modern &#8220;Gilson&#8221;:http:\/\/network.nature.com\/people\/UE19877E8\/blog\/2009\/01\/15\/in-which-i-remain-precise-\u2013-to-two-decimal-places.<\/p>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s the proof:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pommiebastards\/3317560655\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3620\/3317560655_20ea3b8141_o.jpg\" alt=\"cerified\" width=\"458\" height=\"623\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n0.006 \u00b5l. That&#8217;s&#8230; not a lot of microlitres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great things about clearing out an office, or a lab, is re-discovering the stuff you rescued from when someone else was clearing out a lab. I found these in my box this morning: They&#8217;re glass pipettes, graduated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2009\/03\/01\/on_precision\/\">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-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","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=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}