This is how your typical Imperial geek student (ie. me) celebrates Halloween - by becoming Freddy Krueger of SAF… or the Nightmare of Microbiology. Or… well, never mind… I’m pretty sure that this is a much better use of micropipette tips.

Very similar indeed.

If you still don’t believe me about the level of geekiness, then have a look at that:

This was taken last week during my practical. I had to go to do some flow cytometry in Flowers Building. You might be wondering what’s wrong with the picture? Well, look at the warning at the bottom. What language is it? It’s not Mandarin, not Japanese, not Georgian. It is Klingon - an artificial language from Star Trek. The only people who use it, are people who watch Star Trek obsessively - namely, the geeks. I personally never watched it, and recognized it as Klingon only because I read about it on Wikipedia when I was bored some time ago.

After my discovery, I spent half an hour trying to translate the warning into English, even though it was quite obvious what it meant. Someone here has too much time…