Sleepy Day at the Lab

There wasn't much going on at the lab today.

When we got bored with work, Thomas tried to start up the Tanks server.
Tanks is a silly computer game, where everyone steers a little tank across a field, trying to shot as many other tanks as possible. There are unlimited "lives," and the only high score you can get is the "kill count."
It's a multiplayer game, so the whole lab can play at the same time.

Unfortunately, Marcel was out today, and he is the only one who has administrator access to start up the game server... so no game today.

Instead, we made plans to go to the movies on Friday.
The Transformers movie is coming out. Apparently it's based on some kind of cartoon or comic series? I have no idea - I'm always clueless when it comes to pop-culture trivia like that.
Friday is opening day. The plan is to go in the morning, at 10am, hoping it will be a little less busy.

I also had a meeting with one of my mentors today. I had to wait for him for a while, so I started talking to some of the students working in his lab. Of course they have lots of German speakers - seriously, I haven't seen/heard so many German speakers since I went to Germany a few years ago!
The student I talked to also went to the Evolution Conference, so we happily reminisced a little bit :)