Check out Kutti's screencast on playing with chemdraw structures with Photoshop. With his easy instructions, how to turn a regular, boring old lolcat picture into an exciting one with a glowing molecule, like I did here:
I can has cruciform? LOLZ!!!11oneone11!1!11eleven
(real post coming tomorrow...)
Found this in this week's PostSecret.
I'm no total synthetic chemist, and I recognize Taxol, but not the others offhand. Gotta wonder who this guy/gal works for... and who "they" are. Mysterious!
I do wonder where the breaking point of total synthesis grad students is. It's far from the easiest branch of chemistry, and almost certainly the most time-consuming. (The practical value of total synthesis nowadays is debatable, but it's hard to argue that they put in a whole hell of a lot of time in lab. Take a look at most chemistry buildings on the outside, like tenderbutton did, and guess whose lights are always on.) But people need more than just synthesis! They need food, water, sunlight, friends, beer, love, more beer, and love for beer as well!
Certainly working 80+ hours a week on one molecule for months or years at a time must be damaging to the human psyche. Don't get me wrong, I am friends with a number of tot. syn. chemists, and they are well-rounded, interesting, decent folks. However, it's the ones who do work 80+ hours a week, have no outside life whatever, are typically greasy, and want to make you feel like a lazy good-for-nothing fuck for not being like them that make all the decent ones look bad. There is more to life than your work. This postcard says that better than I ever could.
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It's ψ*ψ's birthday. Happy birthday, you complex conjugate.
Here's a kitty
And another one just cause
