Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton)

Bukkit Walrus says "I HAZ A TABZ" Followed by a keep stealing the bukkit saying "NOOO THEY CLOSING MAH TABZ"

The Old Ways have been observed.

Noooooo, my precious tabs!

Panel 1 - The Enterprise is at high warp Panel 2 - Jellico: Last night I dropped my copy of "A Tale of Two Cities" on my toe... Panel 3 - Jellico: It hurt like the Dickens. Panel 4 - The Enterprise, unphased, continues at high warp.

Picard, since being released from Cardassian captivity, pays a visit to his previous command. #StarTrek #JellicoTrek

Just like Empire.

Weird thing to call your mouth.

And then there's the institutional knowledge held by staff, AKA me.

I was putting on a show and walking history lecture for my colleagues. It's easy to forget that students, who normally do their best to ignore my presence, might actually be paying attention to me. I hope they enjoyed the little slice of history before their class.

For who gets to claim that office and the sweet chalkboard?

I enjoy sharing campus and Manhattan Project history.

I remember this too. And the Fierce Chalk Opinions in the replies.

As we walked away, I turned around to see the undergrads how'd been waiting for their lab to start had crowded around the historical displays to check everything out like it was the first time they'd ever really seen it.

There's so much more in the archives than there's room to display, kids. :)

Me: Should be some familiar names in that list if you know your Manhattan Project researchers.
Them: [looks] Alvarez? Like Luis Alvarez?
Me: Yep. Not his son Walter, who has an office in that building over there. Anyway, let's move on.

Them: So this is the list of people that needed a WBC count for [disbelief tone] routine monitoring?
Me: Yep. Every two weeks you went over to the clinic for a blood draw. If your count was too low, sorry champ, you're on book research and writing until you next blood draw is good.
Them: [boggle]

Them: [horrified faces contemplating the medical standards they work under]
Me: And we didn't get the hang of film badges until a few years later. But what we had noticed was the depression of white blood cell counts due to over exposure, which we'd now call a symptom of acute radiation sickness.

Them: How so?
Me: Note the date, it's 1939. What kind of dosimetry and instrumentation did we have then?
Them: Um. Not much as I recall.
Me: The first two rad safety standards, not regs, were only 10 years old at that point. The first one involved using your own skin to calibrate x-ray tubes.

A piece of chalkboard that reads "Assoc'd Press unconfirmed E.O.L. has Nobel Prize" with the edit "confirmed". On the left side there is "Nov 13 Bloodcount" with a list of names

Me: This isn't a recreation. This is the actual chalkboard which got sprayed with epoxy to fix it forever and then they cut that piece of chalkboard out for display here.
Them: What are those names on the side?
Me: Oh, that's a little slice of radiation safety history.

There are some Old Ways that very much persist on this campus. Once of them is if you draw a box around something on a chalk or whiteboard and add the word "SAVE", it is inviolate. No one will mess with it, period.

The announcement of the Nobel got one of those. It was saved for over a decade.

Yesterday, I gave colleagues from another university a brief tour of campus which included showing them the piece of chalkboard where Ernest O. Lawrence's Nobel Prize was announced to the group and confirmed. It just so happened that this was also in the 5min period before an undergrad lab started.

A classic of the art form.

Yes. Good.

Got sucked into actually playing so hard there was no time to post. I think we all know this classic way.

Civ 7 is poop. 6 good.

Policy.

There will be only One.

Mine no longer exists as the UCSC Physics department was forbidden to have their own subdomain in the late 90s.

Books are nice. Also Civ 6 can be done entirely one handed.

As a ginger, I’m halfway there!

HURHURHUR #eternally10

But also pet a kitty.

Congratulations on Doin’ A Thing!

Like “Golden Brown”