Understandable - a "Double Fly" incident can be just as exciting, if not more, than a Double Rainbow...

Waterloo it is- the Raff Lab's getting hooked up with a mug! (We assumed the "R" got lost in the shuffle of excited typing...)

Great job! This was definitely a challenging one - there's no way we would have made it through the last 25% without the "hint" button - and *we created the puzzle*!

Congratulations- it was a pretty tough one!

We've got a winner!

Read the second paragraph after the blanks very closely...

Not quite- but hint: the answer is actually in the post somewhere...

Great material for While You Were out V2...

Awesome! (I'm assuming it was the How to make an old-fashioned video...) http://www.benchfly.com/video/59/how-to-make-an-o...

I agree with both of you. Beyond the immediate benefits of increased efficiency, creating detailed protocols will also benefit you long term as others take over your project when you leave. If new people come in and can't repeat what you've done, it will hurt your reputation - even if it's not justified. The difference could be a seemingly insignificant detail that you used to do, but that the new people aren't - and depending on how long it's been since you left the lab, it can be hard to recall those years later. Best to protect yourself now and create a detailed protocol. (And what better way to do it than with video?...)