Love this! One of my favorite rants, too!!

They look so cool... and I can't wait to show them off to my gen-chem and p-chem students this fall! 🤩

I definitely don't need any more coffee mugs, but gosh darn it - now I own two more for work. 🤣

Wonderful designs!

That sucks! Starting to feel old now that The O, F&F, Uncle Sam's, Peter's Pub, etc. are all gone. What's left?

Now that's a word I haven't heard in a long time! I don't believe it's used here in the US, but it was definitely in common use in the early 90s when I still lived in the UK.

Sounds like it came on a "Microsoft Entertainment Pack" from what I can read: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkiFree

I'm pretty sure I still have the original Win 3 install media that came with our UV-VIS. I'll have to check out if they included this! Might have to fire up DOSBox and give it a whirl. :)

Ha - I don't remember that! :) I think maybe it just came with Othello and/or Klondike if memory serves?

That skiing game sounds pretty amazing, though!

I work at a small public university. We're too cheap to get rid of working instruments! :)

And just to clarify - we kept the instrument (HP8453), but upgraded the PC three times:

- Win 3.11, ISA GPIB/HPIB card
- Win XP, USB > GPIB
- Win 10, Ethernet

UV-VIS Chemstation looks and feels about the same running over a 30 year timespan! 🤣

I should elaborate—we kept the instrument (it's still running today), but upgraded the PC three times:

- Win 3.11 ISA GPIB card
- Win XP, USB > GPIB adapter
- Win 10, Ethernet connection

The old 8453 works like a charm! And UV-VIS Chemstation looks about the same same on all the OSs

We had an HP diode array spectrophotometer that was running on a Windows 3.11 for workgroups PC. Honestly it worked great!

We upgraded it bc our undergrads were confused about the OS. They'd never seen anything more ancient than Win 95 before (and that was 15 years ago)

Aww, you're a good dad! ❤️

Sounds like you've working on this story mentally for quite the time. It showed. A lot of what you wrote resonated with me (and probably a good fraction of the OG PBI community). Thanks and hope all is well with you! 🖖

We get 0.4 workload hrs per credit of research, up to a max of 3.0 (?!) total per semester. No research funds though, although that would admittedly be smart.

All of our sci degrees max out at 4-hr of research that can count for their program, although they can use it for free electives after that.

YES! About half the time my fingers smash Ctrl +, I zoom in, then I remember to hit SHIFT to fix it. Annoying.

I just realized that you can actually redefine the keyboard shortcut on Mac/PC *back* to super/sub-script instead of zoom. Oh, that felt so good! 💚

support.microsoft.com/en-us/office...

Gosh, that was such a good read! I shudder to think how long you worked on that. It's so refreshing to hear these more nuanced takes about AI.

I get tired of seeing 100% hype or 100% demonization articles.

Are you going to start blogging again on your data-goblins site, or was this a passion post?