sstrange motto as signature from an Indian post-doc applicant

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to do dance better than myself.

new app: ARUP ; Ask a Randon Unemployed Person

Create an app that allows people to ask questions to a random person, registrered on the app as currently available.
alternative: RUPOC: random unemployed person on call

SA: sales managers

ME: So what brought you to our institute today.

SM: I am trying to meet a few people and see if I can sell some things. - What do you do?

ME: Molecular Biophysics.

SM: I don't know this method. What do you need? [starts dropping random catalogues on my table]

ME: So what is the measuring volume of this instrument?

SM: I don't know. It's in the catalogue.

ME: We already have an instrument of the other company in our core facilities.

SM: Apparently there is a problem with this instruments. They don't like it.

ME: What is the problem?

SM: I don't know.

SM: The other company does not have customer support here. We have customer support.

ME: Where is he based?

SM: In Belgium.

ME: That is more than 5000 miles away, on a different continent.

SM: Yes, but he comes here regularly. And I only live 1 hour away. I can come too, and help.

MS: But you don't know the instrument.

SM: no sir.

ME: I thought this SPR method was patented. How did your company deal with it?

SM: I don't know.

ME: I don't think SPR is a useful method. I never had any good results with Biacore. What is the difference between your company and biacore?

SM: It's better.

ME: why is it better?

SM: I don't know. My company says so. 

ME: ...?

SM: I can put you in contact with our application specialist. He will call you.

ME: No, please just give me his contact details, and I will contact him if I need to.

SM: He will call you in the next few days.

ME: I do not need to be called. I will call if I need to.

Next day I received a stream of email messages, including:

Dear Dr. Massimo:

Day before yesterday myself and Mr.Ashar  met Prof Bernhard and we had a discussion about NanO ITC and, he wants to have a comparison statement on our Nano ITC with Microcal.

Secondly he has to clarify some more points with Application and so we recommend that you will call him as a courtesy.

Is it possible to call him? He is ready for a Skype Call also. Below is his contact info.

[...]

and:

Dear Dr. Bernhard:

Our Senior Application Specialist sent a mail as below.

She wants to talk to you.

Please let me know by return mail , whether this time is OK for a call?

Please let me know your convenient time

Regards

SA: at night at the shore

At night, the lights on the sea performed a ballet for the stars.

characters

both knowing that the other knows that I am not at ease, but both trying. getting cretidits for trying
writing sms on iPohne on cloth-covered bocx with agonising mice.
oscillating left right in elevator

Deborah at work

characters

Choel:
you know..
I don't know....

good music

SEX BOMB -- teasing the Korean

my word

compile preferred passaged from bible translations, add rumi and quran and others
either from chaos, or start from silence and end in passage that manifests how initial thoughts have been perverted.

Fat Guys in Golf Carts

FGGC could be a book title and/or a favourite TV show for characters;
Each week you just view a fat bloke driving around in his golf cart on a golf course. Seeing this should make you happy.

Characters

Man in bar how speaks like Rumi
(potential girl) friend who speaks like Jae in miniscule police 9 or so.

Anoikis

Greek for homelessness

Name for a book? Name of a character?

Welcome to the Anthropocene

title for book / inspiration?

Events

A mini cyclone in a scientific research building corridor.
disrupting 2 fighting scientists (or scientist and admin).

Rumi - field

Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing
there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

Rumi - silence

In the silence of our longing
We are together as one
But as soon as we start talking
We separate back into two
So be silent
There is honor in silence
For you and me


What would happen if you
Gave up thought for one moment,
Plunged into our sea like a fish,
And swallowed the waves there?

a tempting offer...

nouvella

Search for someone, something.

silence and god

Be still, and know that I am God.
(from Psalm 46:10)
Be still, and know that I AM.
(would this make a wider sense?)

Richard Miller & Spirituality

Think about what spirituality is: It's a deeper experience of life, where you transcendent the concept of a 'little' identity and gain the understanding that you're part of something bigger than yourself.