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Oh I recognize these! We’ve got:
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The 1978 super Nintendo 5 (alternate universe)
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Lockheed Martin Bread maker
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Jeff
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HP 2400 inkjet Uranium 235 enrichment centrifuge
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Don’t forget the beige box that protects you from the magic happening:
They are always super gross though. Cleaning them is always fun, especially when you work in a bio lab.
I recall taking a date to the lab I was working in as a grad student and realizing after we got there that none of it is terribly impressive if you don’t know what any of it does. She was unimpressed despite my excitement about all of it.
I later married a different woman who actually was excited about our lab things despite not being a scientist and having no idea what our many beige boxes do.
Excitedly getting monologued to about niche things that are like magic to me is the best. Learning just enough about someone’s interest to use all the words wrong though is what really gets me going
Another one
And each of them costs about the same as a deposit on a house.
And last just as long.
The engineering department at my uni had a tensile strength testing machine which says “Made in the GDR” on it, a country that hasn’t existed for 40+ years.
I too like toaster ovens.
They all look like some 90ies computer device.
And you shall never offend this boxes or else they WILL hold grudges against you.
Also, these beige boxes used to be white.
This is a repost from a month or two ago… and it’s still funny the 2nd time. :)
Which is a itself a repost from a year or two ago lol.
