My last email to him was in early January about one of our chem majors who'd applied to Pitt and was waiting patiently for news. Within 24h, Dave replied and explained what was going on, and why this year was so different. I relayed his email to my student who was glad for the heads up. Terrific guy
I was a grad student of Dave's in the late 90s. He was such a great advisor - patient and humble. I felt like I hit the jackpot when I joined his group. We had a lot of fun and laughs - have a lot of stories from working with him - and kept in touch via email. So sorry to hear this terrible news.
The time has come, The College said,
To empty your own trash.
It's now ev'ry professor's job,
For we are low on cash.
There will still be a custodians
So don't have any fear
That you will have to mop the floors
At least until next year.
Yeah, that's true - and very sad to see line trending in the wrong direction. :(
(I was thinking 350 was a more pleasing round number as someone with obsessive-chemistry-compulsive-disorder.)
I just filled out the web form about a new position in our department. Feel free to DM/email me if you need details for your spreadsheet. 350 is a pretty good number of TT jobs it seems! :)
You can download the NIST MS Search program and a sample database of about 2k compounds for free!
This website has some details, hints about purchasing the library (shop around!!), and even links to some FREE database collections. Highly recommended!
littlemsandsailing.com/2023/10/free...
I might have to try that, too! I find the light pot roast soup a bit "brothy" and it needs a little something extra. I love sauerkraut so this is going into my next one of these soups!! Thanks for the inspiration
Never thought to mix sauerkraut with this soup... spur of the moment or secret family recipe?!
This Thursday I'm at the Leeds Waterstones Christmas evening - they'll have a bunch of authors from around the area. If you're in town, come along and get a book signed! www.waterstones.com/events/water...
We keep learning the same lessons, again and again. // “A buzzy school promised to transform education. Parents say their children suffered. - WIRED” www.wired.com/story/ai-teach…
Love this! One of my favorite rants, too!!
The national museum of Prague has one of the most impressive stone and mineral exhibits I’ve seen!
They look so cool... and I can't wait to show them off to my gen-chem and p-chem students this fall! 🤩
I definitely don't need any more coffee mugs, but gosh darn it - now I own two more for work. 🤣
Wonderful designs!
If I see anyone else saying you don’t need to learn Excel formulas anymore thanks to the new =COPILOT then I will do absolutely nothing except cry silently into the abyss.
That sucks! Starting to feel old now that The O, F&F, Uncle Sam's, Peter's Pub, etc. are all gone. What's left?
Sorry summer but I'm over you -- already thinking about fall. Loved this story about the chemistry of pumpkin spice by @carmendrahl.bsky.social for @cenmag.bsky.social. And now I know what cinnamic aldehydes are! cen.acs.org/articles/92/...
For @seafury.bsky.social. 😜
Original post: aus.social/@dgar/115044...
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Now that's a word I haven't heard in a long time! I don't believe it's used here in the US, but it was definitely in common use in the early 90s when I still lived in the UK.
Sounds like it came on a "Microsoft Entertainment Pack" from what I can read: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkiFree
I'm pretty sure I still have the original Win 3 install media that came with our UV-VIS. I'll have to check out if they included this! Might have to fire up DOSBox and give it a whirl. :)
Ha - I don't remember that! :) I think maybe it just came with Othello and/or Klondike if memory serves?
That skiing game sounds pretty amazing, though!
I work at a small public university. We're too cheap to get rid of working instruments! :)
And just to clarify - we kept the instrument (HP8453), but upgraded the PC three times:
- Win 3.11, ISA GPIB/HPIB card
- Win XP, USB > GPIB
- Win 10, Ethernet
UV-VIS Chemstation looks and feels about the same running over a 30 year timespan! 🤣
I should elaborate—we kept the instrument (it's still running today), but upgraded the PC three times:
- Win 3.11 ISA GPIB card
- Win XP, USB > GPIB adapter
- Win 10, Ethernet connection
The old 8453 works like a charm! And UV-VIS Chemstation looks about the same same on all the OSs
A screenshot of Windows 3.11 for workgroups from: https://winworldpc.com/product/windows-3/311
We had an HP diode array spectrophotometer that was running on a Windows 3.11 for workgroups PC. Honestly it worked great!
We upgraded it bc our undergrads were confused about the OS. They'd never seen anything more ancient than Win 95 before (and that was 15 years ago)
Aww, you're a good dad! ❤️
Sounds like you've working on this story mentally for quite the time. It showed. A lot of what you wrote resonated with me (and probably a good fraction of the OG PBI community). Thanks and hope all is well with you! 🖖
We get 0.4 workload hrs per credit of research, up to a max of 3.0 (?!) total per semester. No research funds though, although that would admittedly be smart.
All of our sci degrees max out at 4-hr of research that can count for their program, although they can use it for free electives after that.
YES! About half the time my fingers smash Ctrl +, I zoom in, then I remember to hit SHIFT to fix it. Annoying.
I just realized that you can actually redefine the keyboard shortcut on Mac/PC *back* to super/sub-script instead of zoom. Oh, that felt so good! 💚
support.microsoft.com/en-us/office...
