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I was replacing the aluminium hose and cleaning the vent for the drier, and mixed in with all the lint were quite a few peanuts shells. I haven't the faintest idea how they got there, but now I'm worried about rodents. 
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I was replacing the aluminium hose and cleaning the vent for the drier, and mixed in with all the lint were quite a few peanuts shells. I haven't the faintest idea how they got there, but now I'm worried about rodents.
You probably have some.
Why do people arrive at the ER with things lodged in various parts of their bodies? (I will leave you to imagine where) What possible purpose does this activity serve?
Probaly because they cannot get them out on their own or the gerbil likes its new home and refuses to leave.
For the life of me I can't understand how anyone could get into a situation like this.
All of my psych training says "Well... Ok." but my common sense says "WTH??"
Perhaps the objects themselves go in easier than they come out?
Sometimes all it takes is a freak accident.
Way back when, I had some friends/acquaintances in Calgary who built a full-size exterior mockup of the TARDIS and decided to shoot their own Doctor Who fan film. I was invited to observe a weekend session, after they found out about my theatre background (a prop is a prop is a prop, although when you're doing live theatre it has to work right the first time, since there are no retakes).
They were filming in a warehouse, and realized that more natural sunlight would help. So one of the actors got up on a ladder to open up a tall set of blinds... and fell off the ladder in exactly the right way to get a rather long nail embedded in his backside.
The guy who was doing the filming has a hobby of home-made horror movies, but we discovered that when it comes to real blood, he can't handle it. So he fainted after seeing how much blood there was from his friend's wound, hit his head on the cement floor, and suddenly there were two people who needed to go to a hospital.
That day was a disorganized mess. They ended up in different hospitals, and we spent most of the afternoon trying to figure out where the other group of people ended up. When we got to the hospital with the guy who'd hit his head (his first question was whether or not his camera was all right, not whether he had a concussion), another guy suddenly said, "I can't go in there!"
I asked why not, and he said, "Because I'm GREEN!" (he was playing a human who had been taken over by an alien that turns its victims green - a staple of Classic Who stories). His head and upper body were covered in green makeup that was like a combination of olive and chartreuse.
By that time I'd already spent several years in the SCA and doing hall costumes at science fiction conventions and was completely fine with people running around in public in costume, and said, "So what?" (really, so you're green, what's your point?)
"THEY MIGHT WANT TO KEEP ME!" he exclaimed.
Then I realized that okay, even though we were all SF fans, I was the only one who didn't see a problem with a green man going into an ER and not being the patient. So he stayed out of the hospital, the rest of us went in...
Well, we all eventually got back together. Thankfully the guy who hit his head just ended up with a bad headache, though his camera didn't fare as well. The guy with the nail embedded in his backside told us how the ER personnel tried to stay professional but couldn't help snickering about the location where the nail ended up.
They had to cancel the rest of that weekend's filming to let the injured recover (and get a new camera). Later that year they unveiled the TARDIS mockup at the summer SF convention and it was well-received.
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Common sense is rarer among people than nerve endings in their orifices.
I'm just waiting that Zotero imports my 3500 PDFs into its library (then I can see where the rest is).
I'm happy that there is a way to batch import data, but let's see how that goes (has only arrived at the letter F...), how much I'll need to change at the end. Might be a lot.
I'd have used endnote (where I have everything already in), but it's not available for Linux, and then I also don't feel like spending nearly 300€ for that program....
I'm happy that there is a way to batch import data, but let's see how that goes (has only arrived at the letter F...), how much I'll need to change at the end. Might be a lot.
I'd have used endnote (where I have everything already in), but it's not available for Linux, and then I also don't feel like spending nearly 300€ for that program....
I use zotero. It is OK, but the google docs plugin breaks all the time. Unfortunately that is the tool of choice for collaboration over lockdown in my group.
I'm trying to get my hands on a standard from the IEEE, a standard for all computers.
It's behind a paywall.
How can something be a universal standard if not everyone has access to it
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EDIT: Great, this also applies to ISO standards
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EDIT2: Yes, I know, both are industry associations, so they can do whatever they want, but still...
It's behind a paywall.
How can something be a universal standard if not everyone has access to it
?EDIT: Great, this also applies to ISO standards
.EDIT2: Yes, I know, both are industry associations, so they can do whatever they want, but still...
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Your common sense passed the test.
What kind of things are we talking about? Care to toss a few crumbs to the hungry CFC crowd?
I honestly don't want to know.
jeez. i got so fudging triggered by an article that i had a 1/2hr rage attack over an incident that happened 40 years ago. just reminds me i'll never stop being pissed off at some things the mangers at work do
Zardnaar
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I knew a doctor and she told me some things they've removed from people.
I think toe nail clippers stood out. My expectations of humanity are so low not much surprises me.
Think of how stupid the average person is. Half of them are dumber than that. I've seen some crazy dumb crap.
Rarest element in the world is common sense.
I have a button I bought at a science fiction convention: "The two most common elements in the Universe are hydrogen and stupidity."
Rant: I noticed a yellow-brown puddle on the floor in the hall. Since I've become rather paranoid about any liquid being found in anomalous places (due to multiple plumbing issues and leaky pipes and floods over the past several years), my first thought was to check if I was the recipient of my upstairs neighbor's plumbing incident again.
Thankfully, no. Then I wondered, OMG, did Maddy not make it to the litter box in time? She's 14 now and in my experience, elderly cats don't always make it in time...
But then I noticed the puddle trailing off into the entryway...
The culprit is a case of Coke with one or more leaking cans. Oh, joy.
Well, at least it's not Maddy's fault. And I'm assured that the grocery store will make it up somehow, either with a refund or replacement case. But in the meantime I have a large, sticky puddle of Coke to mop up.
Thankfully the leak happened during the day and not at night. I don't use any more light than I have to, and wouldn't have noticed it in the dark. I would have noticed once I stepped in it.
Thankfully, no. Then I wondered, OMG, did Maddy not make it to the litter box in time? She's 14 now and in my experience, elderly cats don't always make it in time...
But then I noticed the puddle trailing off into the entryway...
The culprit is a case of Coke with one or more leaking cans. Oh, joy.
Well, at least it's not Maddy's fault. And I'm assured that the grocery store will make it up somehow, either with a refund or replacement case. But in the meantime I have a large, sticky puddle of Coke to mop up.
Thankfully the leak happened during the day and not at night. I don't use any more light than I have to, and wouldn't have noticed it in the dark. I would have noticed once I stepped in it.
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