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Actually, judging from your pictures on FetLife, you'd... you're like a PERFECT match with the Edinburgh/Beltane/FetSoc crowd. Heh.

Post more you cnuts. I'm bored.

Edited, Apr 22nd 2011 9:27pm by Aethien

I've not really got much to post about, other than the fact that I just remembered the song I got punched in the face to. Good times.

Kali probably does.
And I wouldn't mind trying to understand it.

Sweet.

Here's your introductory reading assignment. It covers the basics. You have to know what an MS/MS spectra is before you can discuss whether or not it generates useful quantitative information.

Have you taken some university level biology/genetics stuff?

Edited, Apr 22nd 2011 1:44pm by someproteinguy

Perfect.

I have hope now; you have more background in this then half the people I try to explain it to.

See, I told you Kali would like it ^^
Also, who did you try to explain it to that I'm above average? I'm mostly useless for anything other than making pretty pictures.

Edited, Apr 22nd 2011 11:08pm by Aethien

I love your facebook pic Kali, the mustache is hilarious! :D

I know that most people are retarded, but I figured that with Protein being a scientist and all I wouldn't end up above average.
It's horrible and it freaks me out a little when I see it.

I would agree with Kal's sentiment.

Yeah, logging isn't what it used to be there either. I lived down the street from the only mill that was still open in town; it was still pretty busy though. There was also a gravel pit and a coal mine, plus the traffic from the interstate funding all kinds of fast food places and hotels. In the end nothing that screamed "educated workforce" really.

The only 'chemists' in town were the ones that cooked their own meth.

Naw, not so much. Darn and I wanted to be cool too...

Most of it is biomarker discovery and validation. It's fairly simple on the surface. You take something like healthy mouse brain and diseased mouse brain, grind them up, extract the proteins, and give them to us to run them into the instrument. We use a rather complex data analysis pipeline and do some statistics and stuff on what pops out. In the end you've spent something like $15,000 and we given you a list of biomarker candidates. If you did a good experiment you could spend the rest of your career testing antibodies, validating, and following up on the results. With a little luck you'll find something interesting and make millions. If not, well, you helped pay my bills at least.

Edited, Apr 22nd 2011 3:12pm by someproteinguy

Yeah there's not really much educated work force in the town I grew up either. All the people who have gone on to bigger and better things didn't come back to the town once they graduated. Unless they were coming back to teach, which a few have done.

It's true the Scots fought the English for hundreds of years, where as we've only fought them twice, but I still thought that was funny. Especially when she pointed out that we had fought them and won and he asked how we won. She replied "Well, they wore red coats in a forest." His response was "Damn it! I knew we missed our chance!"

It's a lot funnier to hear her tell the story. She's a great story teller. She's actually started doing stand up at a local drag show once a month.