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Comment Senior moments Gregory A Petsko Address: Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454-9110, USA. Email: petsko@ Published: 1 September 2006 Genome Biology 2006, 7:113 (doi:10.1186/gb-2006-7-8-113) The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at /2006/7/8/113 ? 2006 BioMed Central Ltd Almost thirty years ago, I was sitting in my basement office (they always used to put X-ray crystallography labs in the basement in those days - either because they were afraid the heavy equipment would crash through the floor or because they thought the radiation would contaminate people below - I never figured out which) at Unnamed Eastern University, trying to write a grant. I had only joined the UEU faculty a few days before, and the prospect of finding funds to support my scientific ideas - not to mention students to carry them out - was seeming particularly daunting that day. All the science buildings at UEU were connected by a rabbit-warren of underground tunnels, which included the corridor outside my office. Because UEU had never bothered to design its science buildings with any foresight, these tunnels were often used as storage rooms for the files, equipment and other paraphernalia that wouldnt fit in the labs upstairs. My office was located near the junction of the tunnel under the Chemistry building and that under the Earth and Planetary Sciences building, and right around the corner from my door were dozens of old wooden cabinets filled with geological specimens: meteorites, quartz crystals, petrified wood, stro- matolites, fools gold, trilobites, and hundreds of others. It was fun to go and look at them for a while on those long days early in my career when no one called, no mail came, and I was sick of writing. what - reminded me of this episode a few weeks ago. I laughed thinking about it - at