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Thursday, February 02, 2006

What does Bob do?

I had a couple questions on what exactly I do, so I figured you guys could ask if your curious and otherwise just continue to taunt Nookie.

And of course help Zomb celebrate the important day of the year for the stinking undead.

49 Comments:

At 9:33 AM, Blogger Zombs said...

Bob are you truly trying to take opver the world?

You would blow up the groundhog if you had a chance wouldn't you? Send the skin to COco?

 
At 9:35 AM, Blogger Aislinn Sirk said...

I am not trying to take over the world, just one small spot of the lab.

I would never send the skin of a blown up groundhog to Coco. It would be all tattered and shredded and that is no good for making vests out of.

 
At 9:42 AM, Blogger Bravie said...

My brother is a biochemist at Harvard and he studies some shit that I can't pronounce. So we just say that he studies pondscum. Is that what you do too?

 
At 9:49 AM, Blogger Aislinn Sirk said...

I do not not study pondscum, though Mr Bob kinda does. There is nothing living in my lab.

Well, except me and the occasional cockroach...

 
At 10:05 AM, Blogger Zombs said...

Do you disect things?

 
At 10:06 AM, Blogger Aislinn Sirk said...

Not at work.

 
At 10:23 AM, Blogger Sonya said...

Do you blow things up?

 
At 10:40 AM, Blogger Swami said...

If your lab blew up, how badly would Boston be contaminated, and with which isotopes?

 
At 10:44 AM, Blogger kim (weltek) said...

Could you be the next Bond girl?

 
At 10:46 AM, Blogger Aislinn Sirk said...

Sonya: Generally not on purpose. All explosions in my lab have been small and contained.

Swami: I have nothing radioactive in my lab. Now if my lab were to start a fire, we do have a nuclear reactor on campus...

Kim:*swishes hair*
What do you mean, next?
*inspect gadgets*

 
At 10:52 AM, Blogger momma said...

Why do I have the Pinky and the Brain theme song running through my head now?

I declare this to be the new Bob theme song.

 
At 11:12 AM, Blogger Swami said...

So it's all just chemicals & stuff? Nothing biologic?

Do you make or use those gases that explode when they hit a knife edge?

 
At 11:25 AM, Blogger Schnookie said...

I believe Bob is a highly evolved lab rat.

 
At 12:06 PM, Blogger ~Nutz said...

You know! I just remembered one of my friends from grad school who was a chemist. Do you know what she did? She worked for one of those huge, famous companies (the name of which escapes me right now) that experimented with new formulas for shampoo & cosmetics & stuff.

Do you do anything like that? It sounded like a fun job! Well, except for the animal testing they had to do. That would bother me.

 
At 12:09 PM, Blogger kim (weltek) said...

Oooh, could you work on things like nutz is talking about? You could design a shampoo that makes my hair look like Catherine Zeta Jones'.

 
At 12:14 PM, Blogger Zombs said...

Do you wear goggles?

How about do you warm your hands on your bunsen burner?

Did yuou and mr. Bob ever do it in the lab?

 
At 12:23 PM, Blogger Aislinn Sirk said...

Swami: Nope nothing biological. I don't know about the knife edge thing, but might bele to come up with something if you give me a while.

Schnookie: Do you LOVE your link?

Nutz and Kim. There isn't much that I work with that you want to put on your skin.

 
At 12:25 PM, Blogger Aislinn Sirk said...

Zombie: No, I wear lab glasses, which are very similiar to goggles.

No

and dear God no. I've seen what happens to my lab clothes. I don't need that to happen to my bitses.

 
At 12:35 PM, Blogger Schnookie said...

Bob is working on harnessing blogger's gas to use as an alternative fuel.

 
At 12:43 PM, Blogger ~Nutz said...

*poot*

 
At 12:44 PM, Blogger ~Nutz said...

Just making my contribution to Science! *grin*

*poot*

 
At 1:07 PM, Blogger Aislinn Sirk said...

Nutz, can't you contribute to science elsewhere where people won't notice?

Like maybe Carey's blog.

 
At 1:50 PM, Blogger Lasann said...

My neice worked for Dow Chemical and her first task was trying to come up with a red car interior that would look like pink in a couple of years. I don't think anyone has conquered this yet! I feel like "I've got a secret". Anyone watch that in the old days. Bob, are you developing new pesticides that will make insects dye but not frog?

 
At 1:53 PM, Blogger Zombs said...

Bob do you make those crackers witht he chees in the compartment next to it. You know the ones with the little red spreader inside.

DH just loves them. I think they are gross.

 
At 1:54 PM, Blogger Zombs said...

Can we have a scientist off?

Maybe a competition between you and Iggy? Who is the best scientist?

 
At 2:02 PM, Blogger momma said...

OH! I've got it.

Bob do you create diseases for Iggy to kill?

 
At 2:32 PM, Blogger mm said...

So I can ask any question I want today? And you'll answer me?

 
At 2:36 PM, Blogger HistoryDetective said...

Would your lab explode if all your minions were to *poot* at the same time?

 
At 2:47 PM, Blogger Schnookie said...

Oh I got it! Bob does testing on animal fur to see which would make the best vest for Coco.

 
At 3:03 PM, Blogger Coco said...

FOR THE LAST TIME:

I do not wear vests. I need nothing to make my oobies look larger.

*whacks everyone*

 
At 3:12 PM, Blogger Schnookie said...

Ok, how about an groundhog fur apron?

 
At 3:29 PM, Blogger Zombs said...

You do wear the big hats witht he ear flaps though right?

 
At 3:39 PM, Blogger Aislinn Sirk said...

Well, Iggy is curing AIDS and I'm making diamonds, so maybe you could vote on who has the cooler reasearch.

And Coco? she looks divine in her hat with the flaps.

 
At 3:40 PM, Blogger Aislinn Sirk said...

MM: Work related questions will be answered.

 
At 4:08 PM, Blogger mm said...

Dang! ;-)

 
At 4:22 PM, Blogger Zombs said...

Well in that case I think you both ought to concentrate a little harder on your work instead of talking about fur vests. You have some earrings to make for me!

 
At 4:43 PM, Blogger Aislinn Sirk said...

Lasann: welcome! I do not make pesticides (That would be a synthetic organic chemist (like Mr Bob used to be) or a snthetic organometallic chemist.

HD: I do not have hordes of minions. I have about half a minion and I will pretty much lose her in a week, as classes start up again.

 
At 5:00 PM, Blogger Swami said...

Swami<---has done it in a lab, while wearing her white lab coat, vinyl gloves and a face-mask. The latter two things were not necessary to the proceedure but very giggle-worthy.

 
At 5:25 PM, Blogger Immunegirl said...

1. STAY AWAY FROM THE EMPTY SPOT ON MY LAB BENCH [/twitching]

2. You're making diamonds? I thought you were making DMSO crystals. My bad.

I will happily participate in a scientist-off. I think I win. For starters, my answer to "If your lab explodes, what will Boston be contaminated with" is WAY better. :P

 
At 5:26 PM, Blogger Swami said...

DMSO = dimethylsulfoxide? (It's been a long time.)

 
At 5:29 PM, Blogger Aislinn Sirk said...

Iggy has just pierced my heart.

*dies*

 
At 5:30 PM, Blogger Aislinn Sirk said...

Though it is a amusing (in a sad, killing bob way) to see my minion get all excited about every single clear crystal that contaminates our slides.

 
At 5:31 PM, Blogger Aislinn Sirk said...

Swami scares me.

 
At 5:36 PM, Blogger Immunegirl said...

Sorry. I just HAD to go there.

OH! I have all the stuff to make shampoo here too, so I'll work on the Catherine Zeta Jones thing if I get a change (looks around lab to decide who will be her unwitting test subject...)

 
At 5:52 PM, Blogger Coco said...

I am writing a Bob tell-all on my blog, and you are here quibbling about chemicals?

Where's your pride, woman?

(also, where's your apostrophe in the original post?)

 
At 7:53 AM, Blogger lights said...

I gotta say I'm a little worried that Bob can read my mind. I swear that I was just asking myself this very question on Wednesday. *puts tinfoil hat on*

Are the diamonds you make bigger than a breadbox?

 
At 9:04 AM, Blogger Aislinn Sirk said...

The diamonds I make (or don't make) are much much much much smaller than a breadbox.

 
At 11:26 AM, Blogger lights said...

If I lost a diamond out of my ring could I count on you to make me a new one?

 
At 6:15 PM, Blogger Aislinn Sirk said...

Certainly! As long as you don't mind it being a thin rainbow coloured film or a thicker black film that falls off if you breath too hard on it.

 

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