{"id":1227,"date":"2006-11-30T17:28:55","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T22:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/containment-policy\/"},"modified":"2007-02-04T13:00:35","modified_gmt":"2007-02-04T18:00:35","slug":"containment-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/containment-policy","title":{"rendered":"Containment Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent a chunk of the day wearing containment gear during a visit to a drug manufacturing facility near Toronto. Unfortunately, I had to sign a confidentiality agreement before the visit, so there was no way to take photos of myself in this amazing get-up.<\/p>\n

My guide for this tour told me that the facility’s policies are for redundant safeguards against contamination (there’s some high potency materials in this site), so we were overdoing it for the sake of added safety. Even so, we didn’t enter any of the production suites where the material actually gets handled; the staff in those<\/em> rooms wear full rebreather gear on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

So, as you can tell, I’ve started another trip. This one’s pretty brief: I’ll be visiting one more drug manufacturer tomorrow, then hitting the Raptors\/Celtics game with my contact at that company, official VM buddy Sam Ricchezza, last seen writing the Raptors report in our NBA preview<\/a>, and goofing on me for not coming up to visit him and see his company.<\/p>\n

Right about now, I’m hitting up the minibar for a caffeine fix. I’m also eyeing the pod-coffee machine pretty suspiciously, but it might be necessary to keep me awake till dinner, which we’ll be having at Rain<\/a>, which “was once the site of Toronto’s first women’s prison,” according to the site.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I took Shakespeare Wars<\/a> with me (hardcoveritude be damned!), and have enjoyed the first 50+ pages. I’ve also got my Yoga for Regular Guys<\/a> with me, since I’m trying to make a habit\/practice of that. The weather’s pretty grotesque, so I doubt I’ll be able to take any good pictures. It’s a pity, since Toronto’s a kinda neat city. It’s my 3rd trip here, and it’s always struck me as a pretty good place to be. Admittedly, I know nothing about the economics of the place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spent a chunk of the day wearing containment gear during a visit to a drug manufacturing facility near Toronto. Unfortunately, I had to sign a confidentiality agreement before the visit, so there was no way to take photos of myself in this amazing get-up. My guide for this tour told me that the facility’s … <\/p>\n

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