Eyeroll du jour

[cjsmith]

I almost didn't get the chem report in on time after all. It was on a USB key that I left in the computer center on Tuesday, and I discovered this fact Tuesday evening, and the computer center doesn't open until nine in the morning, and the lab was due at 7:30AM Wednesday. I'm really glad the place was still open Tuesday night when I went back. I would have hated to spend half the night redoing that fool thing.

(If you have something to say about backups, make it clever and original, okay?)

Chemistry lab needs to focus more on practical applications, such as synthesizing really serious cough syrup so I can get some sleep and stop being stupid. I think I need to suggest this to the professor.

Comments

[leback.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Would that make the ear-popping gadget an appropriate project for physics lab, then?

I'm sorry you're feeling so rotten.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

It could be biology lab, too! Well, if we were still doing organism-level biology rather than molecular.

I'm not really feeling all that rotten. It's just such an annoyance that I'm kind of surprised we haven't found better ways to circumvent most of it. Humans are mostly pretty good at that kind of thing.

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

Maybe email the file to yourself, if it's not too big? Or if you have Gmail, create a draft, attach the file, and leave it in your draft folder? I used to do that with files I wanted to have easy access to in multiple places. That way you would have it on the USB key and accessible if the key was lost/destroyed/stubborn.

(OK, that wasn't clever or original, but you can't smack me from there ;-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I used to do that a *lot* when I was an undergrad (first time around). E-mail could be routed by the sender, so I could hop it all over the effing place and as soon as it arrived I could send it out again. :)