Buying condoms on petty cash

When you are practising science on a tiny budget you sometimes have to get creative with replacement equipment. The following happened nearly a year ago, I’ve just happened to find what I wrote at the time. Taken from a chat log at the time. [dtl-afk] I’m just about to ask stores to reimburse me from …

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…well she was bleeding from the eyes and had diarrhea. So it was either Cholera or Ebola… The interesting things you hear walking along the canal at lunch. This from two suited and booted chaps heading back to QMUL. Walking as we were, in opposite directions, I didn’t get to hear any more than that.

Hmm.

I’m lucky (sad / geeky) enough to have several computers at home. So when one of them packed up on the 30 Aug, I just switched to using another one and thought about fixing it when the weather cooled down a bit. I’ve just looked in that machine to see that the RAM is missing, …