Robot!
A Year in the Life of an In-situ Robot:
Once about a time, this time being about a year ago, a sales representative accompanied a certain German robot to our lab to help it show off it's in-situ hybridization abilites. Though Hans is not it's real name, we shall refer to it as Hans from now on to protect it's identity and privacy. People in lab were impressed...so much time could be saved! And while Hans was not exactly an agreeable sort of robot, it always got the job done. Unfortunately, Hans's younger siblings cost about $30,000 and we didn't have that much money. The sales representative got Hans ready to take its leave and left, saying that FedEx would be by to pick it up. The lab waited and waited and waited for it to go, but it never went. The company had forgotten about it completely. It was a free robot! So out of the packaging it came and it has been put to good use since.
Today, the comapany's memory returned. Germans, by the way, have really long memories that seem to come and go. "Have you seen our robot around your lab?" they asked the posdoc. And the postdoc replied, "Let me have a look," like he would miss a huge (okay, maybe not HUGE, but pretty big) $30,000 robot. We were thinking, "Noooo...don't leave us!!" but it had to go. Hans had supposedly been wrapped up in its originally packaging for the past year. A friend and I helped it back into bit of its original packaging and a great deal of new packaging (though we can't quite make it looked unused as there are bright neon yellow stains from the fixative we use...perhaps they won't notice...), and with the addition of styrofoam peanuts, it'll be all ready to go. It has made many lasting impressions, and we will mourn its passing.
The End of Hans as we know it, and a return to doing five minute washes by hand.
By a teabag, probably a jasmine green teabag.
Goodnight and sweet dreams to all.
Once about a time, this time being about a year ago, a sales representative accompanied a certain German robot to our lab to help it show off it's in-situ hybridization abilites. Though Hans is not it's real name, we shall refer to it as Hans from now on to protect it's identity and privacy. People in lab were impressed...so much time could be saved! And while Hans was not exactly an agreeable sort of robot, it always got the job done. Unfortunately, Hans's younger siblings cost about $30,000 and we didn't have that much money. The sales representative got Hans ready to take its leave and left, saying that FedEx would be by to pick it up. The lab waited and waited and waited for it to go, but it never went. The company had forgotten about it completely. It was a free robot! So out of the packaging it came and it has been put to good use since.
Today, the comapany's memory returned. Germans, by the way, have really long memories that seem to come and go. "Have you seen our robot around your lab?" they asked the posdoc. And the postdoc replied, "Let me have a look," like he would miss a huge (okay, maybe not HUGE, but pretty big) $30,000 robot. We were thinking, "Noooo...don't leave us!!" but it had to go. Hans had supposedly been wrapped up in its originally packaging for the past year. A friend and I helped it back into bit of its original packaging and a great deal of new packaging (though we can't quite make it looked unused as there are bright neon yellow stains from the fixative we use...perhaps they won't notice...), and with the addition of styrofoam peanuts, it'll be all ready to go. It has made many lasting impressions, and we will mourn its passing.
The End of Hans as we know it, and a return to doing five minute washes by hand.
By a teabag, probably a jasmine green teabag.
Goodnight and sweet dreams to all.
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