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

You know you've been spending too much time on the flow when:

#4. Your lab mates swear that Beverly Barton is you nom de plume!

Oh, and Beverly, where do we send the royalty payments?

Nancy Hurtado-Ziola


On Jun 25, 2008, at 1:01 PM, Suzanne Mertens wrote:

> You know you've been spending too much time on the flow when:
>
> #3. You stare with envy at your DJ's audio equalizer board and  
> think how sweet if you
> could control all 15+ Aria parameters with that interface.
>
>
>
> Suzanne Mertens
> Technical Director
> Flow Cytometry Core
>
> Emory Vaccine Center
> 954 Gatewood Road
> Atlanta Ga 30329
> 404.276.8521
> suzanne.mertens@emory.edu
>
>
>
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Beverly Barton <bartonbe@umdnj.edu>
>
> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:44:48
> To:Cytometry Mailing List <cytometry@flowcyt.cyto.purdue.edu>
> Subject: Spending too much time on the flow can lead to this
>
>
>  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 exist2)  
> 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  
> PEIs what I shall
> see.Science triumphant alway'.
>
> If ISAC needs a theme song, we can talk....
>
>
>
>  Beverly E. Barton, Ph.D.Research Cancer BiologistVA NJ-HCS385  
> Tremont AvenueEast Orange,
> NJ 07018
>
> and
>
> Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Surgery/Division of UrologyUMDNJ- 
> NJMS	F509 lab; F672
> office185 S. Orange AvenueNewark, New Jersey 07103
>
> Telephone			973-972-0662E-mail			
> bartonbe@umdnj.edu <mailto:bartonbe@umdnj.edu> Telefacsimile		 
> 973-972-3892
>
>
>
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