It's that time of year again, between Labor Day and December 25th, when we should all be thinking about what to get our loved ones for Christmas. And just in time for the holidays, my officemate and I received a very special catalog in the mail: the 2008 Apoptosis Catalog. For all those hard-to-shop-for people on your list, why not get them some cellular self-destruction? For some reason we found this so funny that we laughed until we could hardly breathe. Not that cellular suicide is a laughing matter, and this catalog actually has useful products for the lab, but the timing just struck us as hilarious.Just when the hilarity couldn't seem to ensue any higher, the next day we received a very useful thing in the mail: a new Department Chair. (We work at a medical school which truly is seeking a new department chair.) The quarter is to give some perspective; I scanned the chair for the enjoyment of all four (welcome, EM!) faithful Famous Hat readers. Some drug company sent us a tiny squeezy rubber stress couch, or chair, or actually maybe more of a love seat since it would only seat two people, if they were about five inches tall. Why anyone would need something like this is beyond our ability to comprehend, but it does have handy holes, one on each arm, for holding pens.
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