A post to make a LOLcat proud February 27, 2011
Posted by mareserinitatis in humor, pets, physics, work.Tags: equations, microcat, packaging, schroedinger's cat, wire
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I had some help working on my dissertation today. In fact, the help was so adorable, I had to make a LOLcat out of her:
And on a similar note, I have a packaging fail. I ordered some wire. When it finally came in, I ran all over the building looking for it because the package didn’t appear to be in the receiving area. It turned out that the wire had not come in a small coil in a packaging envelope, like I thought. No, it came in a large plastic tube. The plastic tube was then placed in a cardboard shipping tube. However, this wasn’t just any tube; it was one that I think is normally used as a form to pour concrete. The tube was six feet long. I got my co-worker, who is approximately that height, to model it for scale:
As a side note, you can also tell that he is a mechanical engineer because of the plaid shirt.
So yes…they shipped my wire as a single strand, doubly packed in a plastic tube and then a large cardboard tube. I didn’t find it initially because it was leaning on a wall away from the table where all the packages were lying.
*Apologies for the pictures not being the best quality. They were taken with a cell phone.
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