Topic: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread (Read 934766 times)

12AX7 · « **Reply #5325 on:** January 14, 2011, 08:02:12 PM »

haha... buddies.

http://www.dogwork.com/ddcv4/

Min · « **Reply #5326 on:** January 27, 2011, 10:39:00 AM »

I just noticed a guest reading the thread "Help me, I'm foreign!". I imagined Chris Wu saying "Help, I'm foreign and I can't get up!!"

HeavyJay · « **Reply #5327 on:** January 30, 2011, 03:08:32 AM »

Much like a cat, I come and go as I please.

12AX7 · « **Reply #5328 on:** January 30, 2011, 04:12:03 AM »

Dude. Sup.

HeavyJay · « **Reply #5329 on:** January 30, 2011, 10:34:48 PM »

Sarlacc. I managed to turn my jetpack on eventually.

12AX7 · « **Reply #5330 on:** February 01, 2011, 06:27:10 PM »

http://www.familyhack.com/

"We are a family with three small kids
figuring out how to travel the world,
work from anywhere while home
schooling our kids. We also blather on
about life hacks, saving money and
cool stuff we love."

12AX7 · « **Reply #5331 on:** February 13, 2011, 01:04:20 AM »

http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_pawlyn_using_nature_s_genius_in_architecture.html

How can architects build a new world of sustainable beauty? By learning from nature.
At TEDSalon in London, Michael Pawlyn describes three habits of nature that could
transform architecture and society: radical resource efficiency, closed loops, and
drawing energy from the sun.

12AX7 · « **Reply #5332 on:** February 13, 2011, 01:58:53 PM »

I knew this speaker cab wasn't Black Widow Equipped; I was not aware that it was Black Widow occupied.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #5333 on:** February 14, 2011, 12:03:27 AM »

While I was in 5th grade, I lived with my aunt and uncle on their ranch in southern Colorado. While there, I was walking down a hall one day and in a doorway I spotted a spider descending from a single strand of spider silk.

I went and grabbed a jar and a lid and went back and caught it, and I brought it to school the next day.

My teacher, who was normally pretty easy going when it came to show-and-tell, rebuked me with a pretty stern voice, because the spider I had brought to show-and-tell was a black widow.

12AX7 · « **Reply #5334 on:** February 14, 2011, 12:33:47 AM »

Quote from: bananaskittles on February 14, 2011, 12:13:04 AM

Oh dear god... I just looked up the black widow and apparently we have them in Canada too. I can't go to bed now...

They only like places where humans are inactive and/or infrequent. Your bed should be a-ok.

Banshee · « **Reply #5335 on:** February 14, 2011, 04:51:46 AM »

Quote from: 12AX7 on February 14, 2011, 12:33:47 AM

They only like places where humans are inactive and/or infrequent. Your bed should be a-ok.

pbsaurus · « **Reply #5336 on:** February 14, 2011, 01:25:23 PM »

It's been a while since Black Widow has dropped in. And she's Canadian.

Vespertine · « **Reply #5337 on:** February 16, 2011, 01:24:34 PM »

Quote from: 12AX7 on February 14, 2011, 12:33:47 AM

They only like places where humans are inactive and/or infrequent. Your bed should be a-ok.

While that is generally true, it's not a guarantee. Black widows have been found under the covers of the bed. In fact, a number of years ago, a little girl died from being bitten repeatedly by a black widow that was in her bed.

12AX7 · « **Reply #5338 on:** February 16, 2011, 01:34:49 PM »

Quote from: pbsaurus on February 14, 2011, 01:25:23 PM

It's been a while since Black Widow has dropped in. And she's Canadian.

Could you imagine BS being nibbled on by BW?

12AX7 · « **Reply #5339 on:** February 17, 2011, 12:21:24 AM »

A woman brought a very limp duck into a veterinary surgeon. As she laid her pet on the table,
the vet pulled out his stethoscope and listened to the bird's chest.

After a moment or two, the vet shook his head and sadly said,
"I'm sorry, your duck, Cuddles, has passed away."

The distressed woman wailed, "Are you sure?"

"Yes, I am sure. Your duck is dead," replied the vet..

"How can you be so sure?" she protested. "I mean you
haven't done any testing on him or anything. He might just be in a
coma or something."

The vet rolled his eyes, turned around and left the room. He returned a few minutes
later wit h a black Labrador Retriever. As the duck's owner looked on
in amazement, the dog stood on his hind legs, put his front paws on the examination
table and sniffed the duck from top to bottom.. He then looked up at the
vet with sad eyes and shook his head.

The vet patted the dog on the head and took it out of the room. A
few minutes later he returned
with a cat. The cat jumped on the table and also delicately sniffed the
bird from head to foot. The cat sat back on its haunches, shook its head,
meowed softly and strolled out of the room.

The vet looked at the woman and said, "I'm sorry, but as I said,
this is most definitely, 100% certifiably, a dead duck."

The vet turned to his computer terminal, hit a few keys and produced
a bill, which he handed to the woman..

The duck's owner, still in shock, took the bill. "$150!"
she cried, "$150 just to tell me my duck is dead!"

The vet shrugged, "I'm sorry. If you had just taken my word
for it, the bill would have been $20, but with the Lab Report and the
Cat Scan, it's now $150."

pbsaurus · « **Reply #5340 on:** February 17, 2011, 02:20:17 AM »

Quote from: 12AX7 on February 16, 2011, 01:34:49 PM

Could you imagine BS being nibbled on by BW?

picsplzkthx!

Vespertine · « **Reply #5341 on:** February 17, 2011, 11:19:49 AM »

Quote from: bananaskittles on February 16, 2011, 01:28:46 PM

Thanks Vesp...

Lol. You're welcome. I'm here to help.

ivan · « **Reply #5342 on:** February 18, 2011, 11:45:40 AM »

All this BW talk, and not one mention of the Brown Recluse.

Black Widows are common in this area. I've seen big ones, little ones, black ones, brown ones. I've shaken them out of my boots, hosed them out of Tonka trucks, stomped them, sprayed them with Raid, crushed them with rocks. Most recently I found one inside a circuit breaker box, and I was so busy doing what I was doing I forgot to kill him. Or her, actually.

Oh, they're scary looking -- all glisteny-black with their red evil supervillain logo on the belly -- but practically no one dies or even gets sick from a Black Widow bite. It'll hurt and swell up, and I suppose you can be allergic to it like you can be allergic to bee stings, but Black Widows are not that dangerous. And they almost never go inside the house -- they like garages, barns, outhouses, wood piles, rock piles, junk heaps, empty trash cans -- dead, decaying, still places. The boots I referred to earlier are work boots I wear occasionally for muddy work and keep in the barn -- shaking them out is a healthy habit.

Now, the Brown Recluse -- that's what fuels my spider nightmares. Small, discreet, slow-moving, and, so I've heard, deadly. Massive necrosis guaranteed, so I've heard. And they're indoor spiders, so I've heard -- they like to hide in closets in your clothes. There is no escape!

There are no Brown Recluses remotely near this area, but every year, reliably, there'll be a report in some regional rag, "Brown Recluse Bites Area Man," and people get in a tizzy fearing an invasion. It always turns out to be false or unsubstantiated.

I hear they're pretty common out your way, 12.

Pyrenus · « **Reply #5343 on:** February 18, 2011, 02:11:16 PM »

I'm in brown recluse area. They always warn us to shake out our shoes before putting them on.

There was a story a while back about a woman who got bit by a brown recluse in the bathroom. It was hiding between the toilet seat and the porcelain and got her right on her bottom. My wife now checks under the seat every time.

pbsaurus · « **Reply #5344 on:** February 18, 2011, 02:46:38 PM »

My recluses are so recluse I can't even tell what color they are.

Clear_Runway · « **Reply #5345 on:** February 18, 2011, 06:20:28 PM »

you have black widows but not brown recluses? how weird.

ivan · « **Reply #5346 on:** February 18, 2011, 06:40:18 PM »

Quote from: Clear_Runway on February 18, 2011, 06:20:28 PM

you have black widows but not brown recluses? how weird.

There are black widows and black widow relatives everywhere in the world.

The Western Widow, the variety I'm familiar with, can be found from Canada to Mexico.

The Brown Recluse is only here.

pbsaurus · « **Reply #5347 on:** February 18, 2011, 07:34:22 PM »

California Uber Alles.

ivan · « **Reply #5348 on:** February 18, 2011, 08:24:23 PM »

Uber Alles California.

Min · « **Reply #5349 on:** February 18, 2011, 08:34:00 PM »

I think Needles had some run ins with the brown recluse in West Virginia.

Glad I live in ^^R-e-G-u-L-4-R\\\\\~~~~//////V-|-R-g-1-n-i-A^^.

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