{"id":232,"date":"2009-03-03T10:31:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T10:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2009\/03\/03\/on_the_passing_of_reprints\/"},"modified":"2009-03-03T10:31:36","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T10:31:36","slug":"on_the_passing_of_reprints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2009\/03\/03\/on_the_passing_of_reprints\/","title":{"rendered":"On the passing of reprints"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some time ago I mentioned that I’d found<\/a> a pile of reprints and didn’t know what to do with them. There were various suggestions, but eventually I recycled the lot (and I’m reminded that Jenny wants to know the rest of the Tap\/UBA story. I need another life, please. Thanks).<\/p>\n

\nThe lot, except for a sub-pile of individual reprints\u2014that is, single copies of papers\u2014off-loaded onto me by my then-boss as I left Cambridge. Today, in clearing out my study in preparation for Pickfords coming on Thursday, I found them again. I was on the verge of recycling them en masse<\/em>, again, when a couple caught my eye. <\/p>\n

\n\"\"<\/p>\n

\nThe paper is Structure and Assembly Properties of the Intermediate Filament Protein Vimentin: The Role of its Head, Rod and Tail domains<\/strong> and was published in 1996, when I was half-way through my first post-doc, counting BHK cells and making a poor man’s version of the Quik-Change mutagenesis kit. The inscription reads<\/p>\n

\n_Hoping you’ll like the story, best wishes
\nHarald_\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nThat’s Harald Hermann, still working with Ueli Aebi on vimentin and IF assembly<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\nThere were more. This one, for example, from the grad student of the father of SDS-PAGE:<\/p>\n

\n\"\"<\/p>\n

\nis addressed directly to my ex-boss.<\/p>\n

\nNot only is the entire reprint ritual itself now lost for ever, but we’ve also lost this humanity, I feel. When clearing out my office last week I handed a book I’d edited to my office-mate of three years. Then I took it back and wrote inside the cover, before returning it to him. I still keep textbooks\u2014long past their useful shelf life\u2014just because they bear the magic runes Margery Ord<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\nAn email saying OMG WTF We pwnd ur 1\u00c5 dataset LOL11!<\/em> doesn’t quite do it for me, somehow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some time ago I mentioned that I’d found a pile of reprints and didn’t know what to do with them. There were various suggestions, but eventually I recycled the lot (and I’m reminded that Jenny wants to know the rest … Continue reading →<\/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-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","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=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}