Message for the day

[moonwise]

A shout out to all my lab peepz.

If you take my UV lamp, I will break your fingers. That is not a threat, that is a promise.

(yes, it wanders with startling regularity)

Comments

[fireceremony.livejournal.com]

Would a suitable punishment be to keep the lamp heated at all times, so anyone who touches it end up with burned fingers ? ;)

[arafel.livejournal.com]

That would be effective to be sure, but it's not a hot lamp; it's just a little handheld black light. If I left it on all the time, I'd burn it out in no time. You'd think people could buy their own.

[fireceremony.livejournal.com]

or better yet, stick a piece of tape on it that says "put me back to Arafel's bench once you're finished using me or !". Lab mates need to be reminded of things like that all the time.

[arafel.livejournal.com]

I do have a nametag on it, but I have a feeling that it wanders when I'm not looking.

[ssilverfish.livejournal.com]

I'm often tempted to fill a bottle with water, label it "whupass," and brandish it (and threaten to open it) when people take my stuff. Breaking people's fingers would likely be more effective though...

I hate it when people run off with my stuff in lab. I feel your pain!

[hidetomatsumoto.livejournal.com]

If I saw someone with a container on their desk labeled, "Whupass," I'd be more inclined not to swipe their stuff. ;)

[ssilverfish.livejournal.com]

I've got Whupass and I'm not afraid to use it!! :)

[arafel.livejournal.com]

Knowing the people in my lab and their total disinclination towards respect of other people's possessions, bodily harm and threats are about the only effective tactic. We have one particularly irritating student who seems to have made it his mission to screw up everything he can around the lab and make work for everyone else. I'm going to kill him soon.

But I'm preaching to the choir here. :)

[ssilverfish.livejournal.com]

> We have one particularly irritating student who seems to have made it his mission to screw up everything he can around the lab and make work for everyone else. I'm going to kill him soon.

If bodily harm works, go for it. There are a frustrating few who never get it though... they never see the mess and they never realize how they inconvenience others. It's not arrogance, it's stupidity.

[hidetomatsumoto.livejournal.com]

Or perhaps you could get some of those remote control collars--the ones that give off electrical shocks, then remove the circuitry and put in lamp instead. Then when Arafel goes looking for missing lamp (or other equipment), she can turn on remote, and see who lets out a yelp when the touch lamp/equipment.

"Sounds like it's coming from down the hall."

*BUSTED*

[arafel.livejournal.com]

I'd love that. Catch the perp red-handed stealing my stuff... Even better would be some sort of unobtrusive add-on that would make a big noise when activated, and then I could just follow the noise.

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[hidetomatsumoto.livejournal.com]

heh heh. Like one of those personal alarms or something--ear shattering beeping.

Or put some sort of powder on the lamp, that when someone touches it, it leaves a residue on their hands, that is visible under an UV light.

You could have a little portable, and then go from person to person, waving the light over their hands.

Kinda like in those monster/alien movies, where each person is tested to see if they are the *creepie crawlie*.

[pipeandslippers.livejournal.com]

Or perhaps those collars from the Japanese film Battle Royal if anyone gets too close to the lamp... bang.

[athex.livejournal.com]

Cancer lamp.....

[arafel.livejournal.com]

Errr.... It's not like I'm using it for tanning; it's for visualization of spots on my TLC plate...