The Vendor Show
May. 21st, 2003 12:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
patgundJust came back from work's Vendor Show downstairs. I think have enough free biology-related swag in my bag to stock at least one small WMD lab.
I swear, what isn't samples of pipettes, tubes, valves, and DNA reagents in my bag is chocolate
They had a luau theme for the show, complete with a "Hawaiian buffet" Their Hawaiian rice had pineapple and cranberries in it. Gee, I must have missed the cranberry bogs when I lived there..... However, the chicken, pork, and salmon was pretty good. However, the problem with broiled salmon in that when cooked properly, it flakes. Problem being is as it flakes, it starts to look less like a salmon filet and more like Tender Vittles.
Felt almost sorry for the Office Despot guy though. Office Despot won the contract for basic office supplies here recently, and they also want to be our mail software vendor. They kept trying to give away software, and people would look at the software, say "Thanks, but I can't use it", and walked away. When I did that, he finally broke down and asked me why people were doing that. Office Despot only carries Windows software, the entire institute is 95%+ Macintosh. You would think they would have done their homework.
I swear, what isn't samples of pipettes, tubes, valves, and DNA reagents in my bag is chocolate
They had a luau theme for the show, complete with a "Hawaiian buffet" Their Hawaiian rice had pineapple and cranberries in it. Gee, I must have missed the cranberry bogs when I lived there..... However, the chicken, pork, and salmon was pretty good. However, the problem with broiled salmon in that when cooked properly, it flakes. Problem being is as it flakes, it starts to look less like a salmon filet and more like Tender Vittles.
Felt almost sorry for the Office Despot guy though. Office Despot won the contract for basic office supplies here recently, and they also want to be our mail software vendor. They kept trying to give away software, and people would look at the software, say "Thanks, but I can't use it", and walked away. When I did that, he finally broke down and asked me why people were doing that. Office Despot only carries Windows software, the entire institute is 95%+ Macintosh. You would think they would have done their homework.
