Maybe I can put her to work; I’ve a few columns that need to be run. 9 months is plenty old enough for flash chromatography. I’ll just prop her up against the hood sash.
and as a bonus you might make a superhero!
If you don’t find a practical use for her, send her my way. At nine months old, I bet she can already write better than most of my team mates.
Pity you don’t work in the Psych lab, you’d have a free test subject.
He could loan/donate/sell it to the social sciences dep, they could probably put it in a maze or something.
Whew. I thought for a minute that someone was reporting their dog had eaten an infant.
Heh. I thought it said “There’s a baby in my lap.” I thought to myself, Then push it off.
Excellent username/post combo.
Alas, her father, a coworker, declared nap-time. Then her mother showed up and took her away.
Now I’m stuck running columns. Stupid columns. 
A colleague of mine often brings her daughter to the lab while she’s running the instrument. That girl probably logged more hours in the instrument bay than some grad students…
The Psych department at the local university runs a daycare. :eek:
“And this is our Skinner Box room…”
“…and over here is our dingo cage. Watch your fingers!”
As long as the rates are reasonable and there aren’t any wire or terrycloth monkeys, I don’t see what the problem is.
A Labrador ate your baby!
Does ‘operant conditioning’ ring any bells?
Is your lab baby a fab baby?
Oh, and here I thought your lab was going to have puppies. (Or puppy?)
[Bela Lugosi]
“But tomorrow, it will be a MONSTER ! !”
[/Bela Lugosi]
Oh man, I just saw a state-of-the-art CombiFlash borrowed from a different department that someone in my lab is using for a week or so. This thing has a touch screen, ramping, automated fraction collection, UV detector, and I think it makes espresso. I would have loved to have had one of those in grad school instead of the old CombiFlash we had which was basically a long tube with an articulated neck. You had to collect every fraction by hand, add solvent and approximate a gradient by hand, spot fractions on a TLC to check for products, and be prepared to sit there for a couple hours. It was still better than having to pack a column with flash-grade silica and applying pressure.