Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Call me crazy...

...but I don't think of the employees of the Chemical Abstracts Service as faceless (or noseless or mouthless, anyway):
















(from an e-mail for SciFinder training.) 
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15 comments:

  1. AnonymousAugust 20, 2013 at 3:48 PM

    As a CAS employee, yes, I have a nose. Soul, perhaps not, but I definitely have a nose.

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  2. AnonymousAugust 20, 2013 at 6:34 PM

    I have no mouth yet I must scream...

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  3. milkshakenAugust 20, 2013 at 7:21 PM

    faceless minions - Yes, I would expect nothing more

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  4. qvxbAugust 21, 2013 at 8:19 AM

    John Steed and Emma Peel would immediately identify the CAS employee as a female Cybernaut.

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  5. AnonymousAugust 21, 2013 at 9:34 AM

    Clearly this is an instance of the Helvetica Scenario.

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  6. AnonymousAugust 21, 2013 at 9:34 AM

    SciFinder is a great tool but it causes lot of damage to practicing organic bench chemists. Any Tom, Dick and Harry (read-biologists)can do the search routinely and they start to give you suggestions! That has been my experience with many collaborators. My attempts to tell them that "this reaction is not that simple or ideal in our system/molecule" falls by the way side. Years of experience in practicing organic chemistry is not good for the biologists with whom I interact. They trust SciFinder more!

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    1. somedudeAugust 21, 2013 at 9:40 AM

      It's no different from Google in that regard.

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  7. somedudeAugust 21, 2013 at 9:43 AM

    I think real take home point here is "Work without goggles and out of the hood and your face will get that color".

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    1. CanChemAugust 21, 2013 at 9:51 AM

      It ain't easy being green.

      CAS is just proving they don't discriminate against zombies or the alternately-living.

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  8. ChemjobberAugust 21, 2013 at 10:03 AM

    Hey, weren't those alien hunter dudes from X-Files mouthless?

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    1. CanChemAugust 21, 2013 at 10:20 AM

      The CAS-Files....

      The truth is out there.

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    2. somedudeAugust 21, 2013 at 11:17 AM

      Had that though, but they were eyeless. Neo was mouthless for a second, but CAS guys are no Neo.

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    3. ChemjobberAugust 21, 2013 at 2:10 PM

      I was right! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Facelessrebel.jpg

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  9. Unstable IsotopeAugust 21, 2013 at 2:04 PM

    SciFinder really takes be quiet in the library to extremes

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  10. AnonymousAugust 21, 2013 at 3:05 PM

    You're Crazy!

    Blind, deaf, and dumb am I ~ 'Cause I'm a CAS-SciFinder guy.

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looks like Blogger doesn't work with anonymous comments from Chrome browsers at the moment - works in Microsoft Edge, or from Chrome with a Blogger account - sorry! CJ 3/21/20