Re: Spending too much time on the flow can lead to this

Based on this thread, ISAC history, and the current enthusiasm for 
"Idol"-type TV shows (with the additional promise offered by U-Tube 
(!)), I propose a special evening session at future ISAC congresses 
entitled "Flow Karaoke".  I nominate Howard as judge-summa-cum-laude 
(and the laude the better, of course!).

David

At 05:30 AM 6/26/2008, Howard Shapiro wrote:
>Beverly Barton wrote:
>>  You know you've been spending too much time on the flow when:
>>
>>1) you dream all night about a new instrument that doesn't exist
>>2) you dream in rhyme to a tune about what you do, thus composing 
>>your new lab theme song.
>>Me, I dreamt all night about a new flow cytometer that married the 
>>open configuration of a MoFlow to the capability of an 
>>ImageStream.	I also had expanded staff to run it.  I'll take the 
>>staff with my old FACScan!!
>>
>>
>>And the song?
>>
>>To the tune of "Home on the Range"
>>
>>Oh give me a flow,
>>Where all the cells glow;
>>(And one has to work in the dark).
>>I see cells fluoresce,
>>And never coalesce.
>>In this way does one make one's mark.
>>
>>Refrain:
>>Flow, flow all the day!
>>No clogs to get in my way.
>>FITC and PE
>>Is what I shall see.
>>Science triumphant alway'.
>>
>>If ISAC needs a theme song, we can talk....
>Nice try, but, technically, ISAC does have a theme song; at the 1978 
>Elmau meeting at which the Society (then just plain SAC) was 
>founded, my "Anthem for the Society for Analytical Cytology" was 
>approved by a voice vote.
>
>The first verse is:
>
>In our Society for Analytical Cytology,
>We marry cell biology with engineering, which
>Provides the lab and clinic with a promising technology,
>And thus, we must acknowledge, we
>Get funded, if not rich.
>
>The lyrics and music are in one of my piles of paper; I dug them up 
>a couple of years ago for possible inclusion in one of the ISAC 
>CDs/DVDs, but darned if I know in which pile they now reside. I 
>remember most if not all of the verses.
>
>When SAC changed its name to ISAC (1990-91, at the Asheville 
>meeting), I was in favor of retaining the original name, and wrote 
>"We're All Great in the SAC"; I'm not sure I even bothered keeping it.
>
>-Howard
>



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