links for 2009-03-27

1. Get it in writing! 2. If you didn't get it in writing, be stubborn!

"Not a bad idea actually; screw those automated patch systems, gimme an army of squirrel monkeys and an old warehouse, and I'll screen your chemical library right quick! It'd be like the nut shelling squirrels in Willy Wonka."

Oh boy, I remember demoing fancy instrumentation! (Plus convincing the boss we needed to spend money on equipment for the lab.) But service plans were beyond my pay grade.

"Seems to me that if you want to be a major research university… don’t get carried away with the technology before you take care of the basics."