My affinity to this lab is starting to creep me out. Doug will appreciate this story the most, so I hope he's reading.
A few minutes ago (it's about 7:20pm now), I was putting a few CDs into the lab stereo so that I wouldn't kill myself from boredom while waiting for a gel to destain. As I was doing so, the PI, James Berger, walked by, looked over my shoulder, and said, "Hey, Autechre. Cool."
I almost fainted.
it's a german dictator. playing the cymbals.
i bet gene is reading this post and thinking "well what's so astonishing about this story?"
Posted by: didofoot on January 25, 2003 10:00 PMJason: You remember that video I showed you on Sputnik7 with the crazy shape twisting all over the place? That was an Autechre video.
Now that I think of it, the picture/page I linked to might not convey the proper amount of surprise that was asscoiated with this revelation. That young, dashing picture was taken years ago. James is now just as lanky, but is starting to look quite distinguished, and even has graying hair at his temples. It was almost like an uncle had suddenly revealed himself to be a hipster.
Posted by: Jacob on January 26, 2003 01:52 PMI am indeed impressed. The musical tastes of the PI's I have worked for are enigmatic to me. I am afraid to try to figure out what they are because I could discover something horrible and end up dropping out of grad school. I don't think I could live with myself if I was doing research for someone who listened to Michael Bolton, or perhaps that dynamic duo that we all remember from the early 90's, Nelson. Some questions are best left uninvestigated.
Posted by: Doug on January 26, 2003 02:15 PM