The Ghetto Chromatographer

[juddc]

Hey Folks,

Just a quick FYI, I've started a tiny, very plain looking blog covering aspects of HPLC as they occur to me and I would certainly appreciate any input and constructive criticism that any of you would care to share. I have a full plate of topics rattling around in my skull, but if there's anything specific that anyone would or would not like to see, please let me know.

Please note that while I will recommend products that I've used and like, this is a non-commercial venture with the possible exception of the occasional sale of a piece of instrumentation.

I hope it's ok to share this here. If not, admins please feel free to delete the posting.

Anyway, here's the link:

http://the-ghetto-chromatographer.blogspot.com/

With kindest regards,

CJ

[t_morris]

Hey...Your blog was really good. Where did you go???

[juddc]

Hey there - Thank you! I've not gone anywhere but work has been madness for the last month and my son needed some medical attention that has taken most of my free time lately. I appreciate the feedback and promise to get back to it!

CJ

[carlo.annaratone]

Starting next week I'll try to do some cleaning up of an old Alliance... I have no budget and the injection valves are KO, but I expect to transform it into an efficient column rinser / postcolumn injection pump / lockspray pump...

[carlo.annaratone]

This is the real ghetto HPLC!

[Fernando]

Dear Carlo

I´m mistaken or you renamed the 1100 modules with girls names?
Thats very original, I never thinked it myself!

Best regards

Fernando

[carlo.annaratone]

Every instrument in my lab has a girls name

[James_Ball]

Every instrument in my lab has a girls name

My IC analyst did the same with her three IC instruments. The boss did make her take the labels off when we had an audit though lol.

I used to name my instruments after planets on Star Wars. Tatooine, Dantooine, Dagobah, ect. I really confused people once they were put on the network.

[Steve Reimer]

When the instruments were first put on a network here, the person doing it was a big Star Trek fan so all the GC/MS instruments, printers and server were given Star Trek names. As a reaction, those of us not in the first round of networking named our instruments for ancient gods, e.g. Ammit, Thor, Minerva. After the Star Trek fan retired we have named instruments after retired chemists and constellations. Makes for quite a menagerie.

[Prado]

Hey Folks,

Just a quick FYI, I've started a tiny, very plain looking blog covering aspects of HPLC as they occur to me and I would certainly appreciate any input and constructive criticism that any of you would care to share. I have a full plate of topics rattling around in my skull, but if there's anything specific that anyone would or would not like to see, please let me know.

Please note that while I will recommend products that I've used and like, this is a non-commercial venture with the possible exception of the occasional sale of a piece of instrumentation.

I hope it's ok to share this here. If not, admins please feel free to delete the posting.

Anyway, here's the link:

http://the-ghetto-chromatographer.blogspot.com/

With kindest regards,

CJ

I've been trying to learn all I can about Chromatography being how I work for a chemical company, so your blog is appreciated (ghetto or not, lol). Seriously, nice work. Thought it's been a while since you've updated it?

[juddc]

Thank you for the kind words! I apologize for not updating recently but I've changed jobs and after more than 20 years as a chromatograher, I'm doing synthesis & process scaling. I'm having an absolute blast but it's taking every bit of brain power that I possess, working mental muscles that haven't seen acition since long before I had grey hair. I'm still doing LC work too, but not much worth writing blog postings about.

I will need to rebuild my Alliance sometime soon and I'll write that up, but so far the old beast is running really well, so I'm not tempting fate just yet.

[Prado]

Thank you for the kind words! I apologize for not updating recently but I've changed jobs and after more than 20 years as a chromatograher, I'm doing synthesis & process scaling. I'm having an absolute blast but it's taking every bit of brain power that I possess, working mental muscles that haven't seen acition since long before I had grey hair. I'm still doing LC work too, but not much worth writing blog postings about.

I will need to rebuild my Alliance sometime soon and I'll write that up, but so far the old beast is running really well, so I'm not tempting fate just yet.

There is nothing wrong with getting out of your comfort zone and facing new challenges. Good luck!

[juddc]

Getting outside my comfort zone is precisely why I did it. That and a good friend, former colleague, and classmate of mine went from being an uber-experienced microbiologist to a formulations chemist because she's badass smart.

If she can do that, then I can make molecules, dammit!

What's funny is that she and I graduated the same day from the same school with the same degree (biochemistry) and have covered quite a bit of territory between us.

Being a nerd is wonderful, isn't it?

[PeterPopoff]

Thank you for the kind words! I apologize for not updating recently but I've changed jobs and after more than 20 years as a chromatograher, I'm doing synthesis & process scaling. I'm having an absolute blast but it's taking every bit of brain power that I possess, working mental muscles that haven't seen acition since long before I had grey hair. I'm still doing LC work too, but not much worth writing blog postings about.

I will need to rebuild my Alliance sometime soon and I'll write that up, but so far the old beast is running really well, so I'm not tempting fate just yet.

Its nice to see that there is the opportunity to try something different if you ever want to as a chemist. I did the opposite (went from synthesis to analytical chemistry)....mainly because I think there is a lot more security and opportunity in analytical chemistry these days. But I actually ended up liking it much more because its less laboring and more theorizing, while bench synthesis is super manual labor intensive.

My PI in grad school used to always drill into us that unless we become specialists in one thing, we will never succeed or get a job, but its nice to see that that isn't the truth