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I was supposed to show Harrison Ford my lab

dullard

dullard

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Update: Got a photo of Harrison and I next to each other. It was with my cell phone, so it is crappy. HarrisonFord.JPG



Not a rant. I just wanted to share my day.

So, I set the whole day aside, cleaned up everything in the lab. It went from a mess to almost respectable. I was not given a time to see him, just that he'll be stopping by and that we are to give him a tour. Thus, I just whiled away my time doing busy work in the lab. Suddenly I'm told he'll be there at 2 pm. 2 pm comes by, then 3 pm, then at 3:45 I'm told my lab isn't trashy enough. He wants to see a low budget lab since that is what will be in the movie.

All that cleaning gone to waste. I did see him walk the hallway though.

Anyone else have a brush with the famous?
 
You should have just left it dirty so he could see what a lab is really like. By cleaning it, don't you defeat the whole purpose?
 
Originally posted by: Leros
You should have just left it dirty so he could see what a lab is really like. By cleaning it, don't you defeat the whole purpose?
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Well, I wasn't told that he wanted to see a grungy lab. I figured he wanted to see how mu research could be applied to the movie topic. Now I'm a bit offended as to why he chose my department (University of Nebraska). Did he just think we'd be money hungry.
 
Originally posted by: dullard
Not a rant. I just wanted to share my day.

So, I set the whole day aside, cleaned up everything in the lab. It went from a mess to almost respectable. I was not given a time to see him, just that he'll be stopping by and that we are to give him a tour. Thus, I just whiled away my time doing busy work in the lab. Suddenly I'm told he'll be there at 2 pm. 2 pm comes by, then 3 pm, then at 3:45 I'm told my lab isn't trashy enough. He wants to see a low budget lab since that is what will be in the movie.

All that cleaning gone to waste. I did see him walk the hallway though.

Anyone else have a brush with the famous?
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You got punked. Harrison Ford was never coming to see your lab.

He's currently in Brazil getting a penis tuck, anyway. Women had started to refer to him as "Flappy." As an international man of action, he got right on that.
 
I have clint eastwoods social security number.

Hell I have the social security number to half of hollywood.
 
Originally posted by: Perknose
Originally posted by: dullard
Not a rant. I just wanted to share my day.

So, I set the whole day aside, cleaned up everything in the lab. It went from a mess to almost respectable. I was not given a time to see him, just that he'll be stopping by and that we are to give him a tour. Thus, I just whiled away my time doing busy work in the lab. Suddenly I'm told he'll be there at 2 pm. 2 pm comes by, then 3 pm, then at 3:45 I'm told my lab isn't trashy enough. He wants to see a low budget lab since that is what will be in the movie.

All that cleaning gone to waste. I did see him walk the hallway though.

Anyone else have a brush with the famous?
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You got punked. Harrison Ford was never coming to see your lab.

He's currently in Brazil getting a penis tuck, anyway. Women had started to refer to him as "Flappy." As an international man of action, he got right on that.
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You make your coffee a little too strong today Perk?

 
Originally posted by: Ocguy31
Originally posted by: Perknose
Originally posted by: dullard
Not a rant. I just wanted to share my day.

So, I set the whole day aside, cleaned up everything in the lab. It went from a mess to almost respectable. I was not given a time to see him, just that he'll be stopping by and that we are to give him a tour. Thus, I just whiled away my time doing busy work in the lab. Suddenly I'm told he'll be there at 2 pm. 2 pm comes by, then 3 pm, then at 3:45 I'm told my lab isn't trashy enough. He wants to see a low budget lab since that is what will be in the movie.

All that cleaning gone to waste. I did see him walk the hallway though.

Anyone else have a brush with the famous?
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You got punked. Harrison Ford was never coming to see your lab.

He's currently in Brazil getting a penis tuck, anyway. Women had started to refer to him as "Flappy." As an international man of action, he got right on that.
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You make your coffee a little too strong today Perk?
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Did Ford show up @ dullard's lab? No? I rest my case.
 
Originally posted by: zinfamous
:shocked: Do I see a boobie in that pic?

OP, what field are you in?
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I believe that the item you are thinking of is a booby. I don't know if they exist in South Africa.

I do research and development into rapid polymerase chain reactions. I basically design machines for the detection of diseases. But, the machines are also useful for building custom genes more accurately that by any other similar method (an angle that I thought Ford might like). Our main focus right now is a $5 test for drug resistant tuberculosis in under 1 hour so that the patient can have proper medication before leaving the doctor (as opposed to the common 4-6 week tests).
 
Originally posted by: dullard
Originally posted by: zinfamous
:shocked: Do I see a boobie in that pic?

OP, what field are you in?
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I believe that the item you are thinking of is a booby. I don't know if they exist in South Africa.

I do research and development into rapid polymerase chain reactions. I basically design machines for the detection of diseases. But, the machines are also useful for building custom genes more accurately that by any other similar method (an angle that I thought Ford might like). Our main focus right now is a $5 test for drug resistant tuberculosis in under 1 hour so that the patient can have proper medication before leaving the doctor (as opposed to the common 4-6 week tests).
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so some kind of juiced-up RT-PCR? Still takes us ~2-3 hours to run a normal assay.
 
Originally posted by: dullard
Originally posted by: zinfamous
so some kind of juiced-up RT-PCR? Still takes us ~2-3 hours to run a normal assay.
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My PCR machines typically complete in 5-10 minutes. We've gone as fast as 78 seconds (faint but visible band on a gel) for 30 cycles. I do some design on real time PCR, but that isn't yet perfected. We've done real time PCR in a few minutes though. It's 2 years old, but this lists some of my publications.
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i read your resume

you are hardcore, brah. respect.
 
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