Friday, July 11, 2008

Dreaming of heaven...of the electrophysiologist's type

I've often said that in electrophysiologist's heaven, there's no series resistance, and you have an infinite number of solutions in a special magic fridge/shelf, containing every possible permutation of divalents, weird anions, or whatever.

Cause dealing with the lack of those two things is a series pain in the ass.

*sigh*

4 comments:

Arlenna said...

I bet an undergrad would just LOVE to make up a thousand different solutions--see if you can con one into it!

Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde said...

Dude. Also infinite aliquots of magic internal that never goes bad.

Anonymous said...

I'm with dr. jekyll & mrs. hyde!!! f'ing internal...

Nat Blair said...

Heh, so some folks out there have similar feelings.

I just don't trust undergrads with most of my solutions. Usually it's not just the physical preparation (though that can be a pain with internals), it thinking about all the different things that might impact it. Like, oh, I want to change calcium, should I replace with magnesium, what if mag blocks directly, what about the surface charge, blah blah blah.

Though then in making them up, I realized I screwed up one of them and had to redo it. But in the end, it's really that I just super anal retentive about my solutions.