A few months ago someone here appended a notice on the cupboard door above the sink in the tea/coffee-making area of the common room, requesting (ordering) to the effect that […]

Seriously, my absence from this network of late has to do with matters more pressing than the orgy of commercialism that is the over-pundit-ed World Cup. That’s not to say […]

According to an internal E-mail I received yesterday, I had responded, a few months back, to another, asking whether I occasionally work from home. And apparently I’d indicated that I […]

As one who considers that, due to overlapping space and personnel, one all-inclusive meeting would be a more efficient policy, which might also serve to promote some anti-patch squirreling openness, […]

I managed some successful trouble-shooting last week, exorcising an attack of the PCR ghost, which, combined with erupting annoyance at some local territorial shenanigans, and a saddening personal disagreement, conspired […]

I commence tapping this in my (shared) office, at my desk littered with papers, various magazines, product info, and diary; below messily organised shelves, one of which, not occupied by […]

Recently, an early middle-aged research scientist, with over a decade’s experience in molecular and cell biology, joined our laboratory. After a time, it became apparent that he was an experimental […]

“Boring”, remarked one fledgling rebel (much to my amusement) as the teacher commenced Tuesday informing two gathered classes of 9-10 year olds that the adult strangers in the room, with […]