Bright shiny new service thingy!

There's now the 'servicemeldpunt beta' for the science faculty. Yes, it is also called that in the English version of the mail and yes, I do think they mean beta in the 'testing' sense as opposed to the natural sciences sense, though they intended otherwise. Anyway, on day one someone wrecked the blinds (dark room quality), leaving six people in a dark office. Apart from the automated reply from the desk, no word yet. We also have a strictly climate controlled room where the experiments involving pathogen infections of the plants are performed. Climate control is critical, if it fails, the lights in the room will heat the room rapidly. Technical services performed fire safety repairs around that area today, having filed all the requests and permits, and had been told that we would be notified. Funilly enough, the latter never happened. Result: the 16 degree C. room was above 40 degrees by the time we found out, all alarm systems also being shut down. There goes up to three weeks of research...

Anyway, on the lighter note:

• After the previous, how it should have ended, movie links (do check out lord of the rings if you haven't already), time to remind everyone of the 30 seconds bunny re-enactments over at angryalien.com.
• The 'Mike en Thomas show' has also restarted and is available at uitzendinggemist here.
• There's an excellent science meeting bingo form here.