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gfish ([personal profile] gfish) wrote2005-04-14 02:49 pm

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Small lesson learned today:

If you order a case of petri dishes from a large biotech company, to be shipped to a residential address, and you give them an odd-looking spam alias for your email address, they're going to act all weird about it.

[identity profile] xmurf.livejournal.com 2005-04-14 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Funny you should post this right now.

Remember the artist-up-on-bioterrorism-charges thing (http://www.caedefensefund.org/) we talked about a while back?


Robert Ferrell, 61, a researcher and professor at the University of Pittsburgh, also was accused of misusing his position to help Kurtz get the bacteria.


That would be the father of one of my ex-girlfrinds. I just found this out. I am disturbed and amused.

[identity profile] firesign3000.livejournal.com 2005-04-14 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
thats because, clearly, you are a terrorist.

[identity profile] tithonium.livejournal.com 2005-04-15 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
We already knew that.

[identity profile] hollyqueen.livejournal.com 2005-04-15 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
So, how long until the FBI come and visit?

[identity profile] shadowblue.livejournal.com 2005-04-15 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
pssssssst public livejournal

[identity profile] callmem.livejournal.com 2005-04-15 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
What are you doing with them, anyway? I ask because I suspect your plans are neat.

[identity profile] gfish.livejournal.com 2005-04-15 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
Details to come soon, once something photogenic has happened. :)

[identity profile] randomdreams.livejournal.com 2005-04-15 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
Heh. I have about ten dozen in sealed packages if they really get difficult to obtain. I'm not using them...
(by the way, it doesn't work to grow bugs on jello: they liquefy it almost immediately.)

[identity profile] gfish.livejournal.com 2005-04-15 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
That's why they use agar instead of gellatin. The structure it forms doesn't get eaten. At least around here, getting agar flakes is pretty easy. I'd be glad to mail you some if you can't find them locally.

And finding disposable petri dishes was really easy. It was finding a place selling autoclavable ones for less than $5/each that was a bit tricky. I'm still going to keep my eye on ebay for a nice batch of pyrex ones.