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Katherine

@katherine_co_

Industrial microscopist (formerly scanning probe, currently electron), @BerkeleyLab and @LAIRUBC alumna, knitter, cat enthusiast. she/her

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Due to an emergency, we had not use NON silver plated stainless steel screws on the OUTSIDE of our vacuum system. I had to convince my coworkers who only have ever worked in industry this will be ok. "Back in my times of academic poverty, the things we did.."

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I can knit pretty well, so I can probably crochet a perfect sphere on the first go no problem right? (This lemon adjacent thing took me 3 solid hours and an unbelievable amount of concentration).

I can knit pretty well, so I can probably crochet a perfect sphere on the first go no problem right? 

(This lemon adjacent thing took me 3 solid hours and an unbelievable amount of concentration).
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Ok. Maybe this was common knowledge, but today learned that all multimeters have this little home on the back to hold the probes. What? I have been storing them like an animal all these years.

Ok. Maybe this was common knowledge, but today learned that all multimeters have this little home on the back to hold the probes. What? I have been storing them like an animal all these years.
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(me, as a hardware person in the firmware meeting) "Sorry, I'm not sure what all of these components are. For example what's the JBOD?" "Oh. That's just the computer. It stands for 'just a bunch of disks.' " "....." "...." "That's fair."

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My coworker told me that with my close up glasses that I need for precision work (some refer to these as "reading glasses") I look like "an old auntie from TV from the 80's. Anyways, so if any mechanical engineers are looking for a job, we may be hiring.