This if officially a good work day

[Chariotoflove]

I just got notice from the National Institutes of Health that my shared instrument grant got a super high score, as in a most likely fundable score provided you all paid your taxes and there is enough money in the coffers. The 13 is on a 90 point scale where smaller is better and 10 is perfect.

This is for a multi-photon laser scanning confocal microscope. It's worth just shy of $900K, and I have been working on this application for two years. It involved contributions from faculty across the entire College, and if you think herding cats is hard, try professors.

This is a BIG DEAL for us, as it will enable us to do research we could only dabble in before. So, yes, I am doing a happy dance in my office.

[davesaddiction]

WOOO! Congrats.

[Chariotoflove]

Thanks, pal!

[2Poor_sh2Furious]

Taxes?

[jminer]

@chariotoflove this is awesome! My wife works in healthcare nonprofits so I'm well aware of the amount of work that went into this. Go you!

[Chariotoflove]

@poor_sh said in This if officially a good work day:

Taxes?

Grrrr.

[Chariotoflove]

@jminer said in This if officially a good work day:

@chariotoflove this is awesome! My wife works in healthcare nonprofits so I'm well aware of the amount of work that went into this. Go you!

Thanks, my friend. This is the first group to hear of this. I couldn't think of a better way to express the joy than to you folks.

[2Poor_sh2Furious]

@chariotoflove I mean, I'm a fed. I pay taxes that I assume are used to pay my salary?

[trivet]

Congrats!!

[Chariotoflove]

@poor_sh said in This if officially a good work day:

@chariotoflove I mean, I'm a fed. I pay taxes that I assume are used to pay my salary?

Yeah, me too, by definition as a grant holder. It's a funny kind of self-fap, isn't it?

[WhoIsTheLeader]

Glad something is going ok for someone today. Lose an Oppo, gain a microscope! All day today with the voucher.

[Vondon302]

@chariotoflove Congrats!
As our future President once said.
"This is a big fucking deal"

[chan]

@chariotoflove congrats, well deserved!

[ClassicDatsunDebate]

@chariotoflove Way to go!

[Chariotoflove]

@vondon302 said in This if officially a good work day:

@chariotoflove Congrats!
As our future President once said.
"This is a big fucking deal"

Ha! Thanks!

[Chariotoflove]

@chan said in This if officially a good work day:

@chariotoflove congrats, well deserved!

Thank you!

[zipfuel]

For $900k I'd expect my laser to make pew pew noises, just sayin'
Congrats

[Chariotoflove]

@zipfuel
That's a reasonable ask, come to think of it. I'll talk to the vendor.

[Rusty Vandura]

@chariotoflove Like I was saying...

[VincentMalamute]

Wow, very nice! Other than confocal, I know those words but not in that particular arrangement.

[BicycleBuck]

@chariotoflove AWESOME!

Funnily enough, microscopy was my first taste of Geographic Information Systems. It was custom software that tracked the stage position to capture x/y/z coordinates as we digitized cells.

[Chariotoflove]

@bicyclebuck said in This if officially a good work day:

@chariotoflove AWESOME!

Funnily enough, microscopy was my first taste of Geographic Information Systems. It was custom software that tracked the stage position to capture x/y/z coordinates as we digitized cells.

The micro and the macro use much the same math, don't they.

There are lots of neat shareware tools out now as plug ins for ImageJ, etc., but also lots of expensive commercial packages. The biz has grown with Moore's Law!

[Chariotoflove]

@vincentmalamute said in This if officially a good work day:

Wow, very nice! Other than confocal, I know those words but not in that particular arrangement.

Letter soup.

I like your sig.

[VincentMalamute]

@chariotoflove What field are you in?

[BicycleBuck]

@chariotoflove I'm sure that the tools are so much better now than they were back then!