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A while back, someone posted a link to a mouse killing device they had made
out of a fence electrification unit. IIRC, it involved a couple of rods, and a plastic pan full of water to catch and drown the stunned meeces. Would that person please post that up again? I need to make one for my cabin. The mice are out in force this spring. Steve |
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On Sun, 21 May 2006 16:09:56 -0700, "Steve B"
wrote: My version of the "perfect mouse trap" 1 electric fence charger 1 5 gal plastic bucket strip of sheet metal 2"x24" or so 2 lengths 12 ga of wire with alligator clips on the ends small piece hardware cloth 3"x4" or so for holding bait use peanut butter some pop rivets to attach tin to bucket machine screws would also work lenght of wood lathe Cut a length of tin long enough to stretch across bucket top. fasten to the bucket top with rivets on both ends. This is the base, it will be where the gound connection to charger attaches. At 90 deg attach 12" length of tin.fasten hardware cloth square on the free end. This is bent in a question mark shape over the ground strip. Positive attaches to bait strip, postiion bait square a couple of inches above ground strip, smear bait square with peanut butter Hook up wires. and energize Set lathe so mice can climb up to the ground strip. When mice reach up to eat bait-- zappo--- then they fall down into bottom of bucket with several inches of water in bottom.. Use ice fishing ladle to scoop out floaters, check this once a week or so, floaters left in warm weather decompose after a week or so ---mouse soup nasty stuff if water dries up. add clorox if hanta virus is a concern. Not my invention but it is" the perfect mouse trap" ED A while back, someone posted a link to a mouse killing device they had made out of a fence electrification unit. IIRC, it involved a couple of rods, and a plastic pan full of water to catch and drown the stunned meeces. Would that person please post that up again? I need to make one for my cabin. The mice are out in force this spring. Steve ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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ED wrote: On Sun, 21 May 2006 16:09:56 -0700, "Steve B" wrote: My version of the "perfect mouse trap" 1 electric fence charger 1 5 gal plastic bucket strip of sheet metal 2"x24" or so 2 lengths 12 ga of wire with alligator clips on the ends small piece hardware cloth 3"x4" or so for holding bait use peanut butter some pop rivets to attach tin to bucket machine screws would also work lenght of wood lathe Cut a length of tin long enough to stretch across bucket top. fasten to the bucket top with rivets on both ends. This is the base, it will be where the gound connection to charger attaches. At 90 deg attach 12" length of tin.fasten hardware cloth square on the free end. This is bent in a question mark shape over the ground strip. Positive attaches to bait strip, postiion bait square a couple of inches above ground strip, smear bait square with peanut butter Hook up wires. and energize Set lathe so mice can climb up to the ground strip. When mice reach up to eat bait-- zappo--- then they fall down into bottom of bucket with several inches of water in bottom.. Use ice fishing ladle to scoop out floaters, check this once a week or so, floaters left in warm weather decompose after a week or so ---mouse soup nasty stuff if water dries up. add clorox if hanta virus is a concern. Combine with one of my "Bug Bucket" fly traps (Directions can be found at http://www.sonic.net/~dakidd/Horses/FlyTrap/index.html ) and leave the dead ones in there as bait... Talk about killing two birds with one stone... -- Don Bruder - - If your "From:" address isn't on my whitelist, or the subject of the message doesn't contain the exact text "PopperAndShadow" somewhere, any message sent to this address will go in the garbage without my ever knowing it arrived. Sorry... http://www.sonic.net/~dakidd for more info |
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"Don Bruder" wrote Combine with one of my "Bug Bucket" fly traps (Directions can be found at http://www.sonic.net/~dakidd/Horses/FlyTrap/index.html ) and leave the dead ones in there as bait... Talk about killing two birds with one stone... -- Don Bruder Dang fine info and website, Don. Thanks. |
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On Sun, 21 May 2006 18:14:57 -0600, ED
wrote: On Sun, 21 May 2006 16:09:56 -0700, "Steve B" wrote: My version of the "perfect mouse trap" 1 electric fence charger 1 5 gal plastic bucket strip of sheet metal 2"x24" or so 2 lengths 12 ga of wire with alligator clips on the ends small piece hardware cloth 3"x4" or so for holding bait use peanut butter some pop rivets to attach tin to bucket machine screws would also work lenght of wood lathe Cut a length of tin long enough to stretch across bucket top. fasten to the bucket top with rivets on both ends. This is the base, it will be where the gound connection to charger attaches. At 90 deg attach 12" length of tin.fasten hardware cloth square on the free end. This is bent in a question mark shape over the ground strip. Positive attaches to bait strip, postiion bait square a couple of inches above ground strip, smear bait square with peanut butter Hook up wires. and energize Set lathe so mice can climb up to the ground strip. When mice reach up to eat bait-- zappo--- then they fall down into bottom of bucket with several inches of water in bottom.. Use ice fishing ladle to scoop out floaters, check this once a week or so, floaters left in warm weather decompose after a week or so ---mouse soup nasty stuff if water dries up. add clorox if hanta virus is a concern. Not my invention but it is" the perfect mouse trap" ED Now how about catching "tree rats"? A while back, someone posted a link to a mouse killing device they had made out of a fence electrification unit. IIRC, it involved a couple of rods, and a plastic pan full of water to catch and drown the stunned meeces. Would that person please post that up again? I need to make one for my cabin. The mice are out in force this spring. Steve ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- *** Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com *** |
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clare at snyder.on.ca wrote Now how about catching "tree rats"? The latest thing touted in this area is this same concept, but using perches that have electrified wires in them. They break the bird from landing on that building in one lesson. Doesn't kill it, though. Wouldn't want to offend any of the PITAs. OOps, I mean PETAs. Steve |
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On Sun, 21 May 2006 20:49:43 -0700, "Steve B"
wrote: clare at snyder.on.ca wrote Now how about catching "tree rats"? The latest thing touted in this area is this same concept, but using perches that have electrified wires in them. They break the bird from landing on that building in one lesson. Doesn't kill it, though. Wouldn't want to offend any of the PITAs. OOps, I mean PETAs. Steve Tree rats are NOT birds. They are SQUIRRELS. Then there's the "salad theives" - those cute little hip-hop artistes that mow down anything green within their (considerable) reach. *** Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com *** |
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On Sun, 21 May 2006 17:54:06 -0700, Don Bruder
wrote: In article , Combine with one of my "Bug Bucket" fly traps (Directions can be found at http://www.sonic.net/~dakidd/Horses/FlyTrap/index.html ) and leave the dead ones in there as bait... Talk about killing two birds with one stone... Nice fly trap, I only get a run on mice in the fall. I haven't caught one in a few months now. I would never have thought to use yeast as a bait. I think I'll try one off of your plans come fly season. Someone off this group is going to make a device that is a universal "pestilence removal unit" judging from some of the recent threads. A coyote, pigeon, squirrel, barking dog,cat, cockroach,fly,yellowjacket, rodent snake removal/recycling device. .. .... ED ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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On Sun, 21 May 2006 20:18:59 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote: I believe you mean "length of wood lath", Ed. We ain't talkin' wooden machines here, bubba. Yea, last year I couldn't even spell techician, now I are one!! GREAT idea! ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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On Sun, 21 May 2006 23:21:05 -0600, with neither quill nor qualm, ED
quickly quoth: On Sun, 21 May 2006 20:18:59 -0700, Larry Jaques wrote: I believe you mean "length of wood lath", Ed. We ain't talkin' wooden machines here, bubba. Yea, last year I couldn't even spell techician, now I are one!! Couldn't spell what? g -- Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. --Chinese Proverb ------ www.diversify.com -- Growing Websites For Over a Decade Now |
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Larry Jaques wrote: On Sun, 21 May 2006 23:21:05 -0600, with neither quill nor qualm, ED quickly quoth: On Sun, 21 May 2006 20:18:59 -0700, Larry Jaques wrote: I believe you mean "length of wood lath", Ed. We ain't talkin' wooden machines here, bubba. Yea, last year I couldn't even spell techician, now I are one!! Couldn't spell what? g ROTFL!!!! My "speed reading" capability apparently filled in that "glitch" for me - Didn't even notice it until you pointed it out! -- Don Bruder - - If your "From:" address isn't on my whitelist, or the subject of the message doesn't contain the exact text "PopperAndShadow" somewhere, any message sent to this address will go in the garbage without my ever knowing it arrived. Sorry... http://www.sonic.net/~dakidd for more info |
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Yea, last year I couldn't even spell techician, now I are one!! Couldn't spell what? g ROTFL!!!! My "speed reading" capability apparently filled in that "glitch" for me - Didn't even notice it until you pointed it out! Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Fcuknig amzanig huh? ;) Peter |
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"Bushy Pete" wrote:
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Fcuknig amzanig huh? ;) Peter Amazing isn't it. The only words that my mind froze on, were the ones starting with w jk |
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jk wrote: "Bushy Pete" wrote: Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Fcuknig amzanig huh? ;) Peter Amazing isn't it. The only words that my mind froze on, were the ones starting with w jk More than a little research (probably some of it at "Cmabrigde") has shown that a "fast" reader doesn't see letters, or even words, so much as the *SHAPES* of familiar words. When encountering new/rare words, there's a slowdown to "letter-by-letter" reading, but for familiar words, the outline formed by the letters is apparently most of what gets recognized. One piece I read (sevearl years ago) that covered the topic discussed a test series that used *NO* letters at all - Just a block outline of the shapes of the words making up the test text. The folks doing the study were shocked to find that in some people they tested, there was better than 95% comprehension of rather extensive chunks of text - Or perhaps I should say "text outlines". Not as surprising (at least to me) was the finding that those who showed the highest comprehension of the "block text" were also the fastest readers of "normal" text. I found that I did pretty well (I don't remember what the exact percentage was, but I do recall that it was high) on the samples of "outline text" that were included in the paper. Which didn't really surprise me... The other finding that came out of that study was that reading speed and text-recognition fell through the basement floor when the test text, whether "outline" or "normal", was made up of words in ALL-CAPS. SCIENTIFIC PROOF THAT WRITING IN ALL CAPS IS BAD! Not bragging - simply presenting a data-point for comparison - but I burn up the typical 300-ish page paperback in about 3-4 hours routinely, and once went through Stephen King's "complete and uncut" version of The Stand in less than 14 hours. I started re-reading Frank Herbert's "Dune" series (Dune, Dune Messiah, Children Of Dune, and God Emperor of Dune) last night. I finished Dune this morning, after about 4 hours of "sit down and read" time. After about 2 hours or so of Dune Messiah, I'm a bit less than 2/3 of the way through. If I go at my usual speed, I expect to be finished with Children of Dune, and at least partway through (if not done with) God Emperor of Dune before daylight on Thursday. And now a little brag: I read *ALMOST* as fast upside down, in a mirror, or, if the page is transparent enough, "through" the page (reading the text on the opposite side of the page from what's facing me) as I do "normally". Dunno how or why - it's not something I recall ever making any effort to practice - or even learn. I just know that's reality for me. Reading so fast kinda sucks - It means I'm CONSTANTLY looking for something else to read! -- Don Bruder - - If your "From:" address isn't on my whitelist, or the subject of the message doesn't contain the exact text "PopperAndShadow" somewhere, any message sent to this address will go in the garbage without my ever knowing it arrived. Sorry... http://www.sonic.net/~dakidd for more info |
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On Tue, 23 May 2006 00:17:23 -0700, Don Bruder
wrote: Not bragging - simply presenting a data-point for comparison - but I burn up the typical 300-ish page paperback in about 3-4 hours routinely, and once went through Stephen King's "complete and uncut" version of The Stand in less than 14 hours. I started re-reading Frank Herbert's "Dune" series (Dune, Dune Messiah, Children Of Dune, and God Emperor of Dune) last night. I finished Dune this morning, after about 4 hours of "sit down and read" time. After about 2 hours or so of Dune Messiah, I'm a bit less than 2/3 of the way through. If I go at my usual speed, I expect to be finished with Children of Dune, and at least partway through (if not done with) God Emperor of Dune before daylight on Thursday. Same here. The bitch of it is..you run out of book long before you want to. Gunner "If thy pride is sorely vexed when others disparage your offering, be as lamb's wool is to cold rain and the Gore-tex of Odin's raiment is to gull**** in the gale, for thy angst shall vex them not at all. Yea, they shall scorn thee all the more. Rejoice in sharing what you have to share without expectation of adoration, knowing that sharing your treasure does not diminish your treasure but enriches it." - Onni 1:33 |
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Gunner wrote: On Tue, 23 May 2006 00:17:23 -0700, Don Bruder wrote: Not bragging - simply presenting a data-point for comparison - but I burn up the typical 300-ish page paperback in about 3-4 hours routinely, and once went through Stephen King's "complete and uncut" version of The Stand in less than 14 hours. I started re-reading Frank Herbert's "Dune" series (Dune, Dune Messiah, Children Of Dune, and God Emperor of Dune) last night. I finished Dune this morning, after about 4 hours of "sit down and read" time. After about 2 hours or so of Dune Messiah, I'm a bit less than 2/3 of the way through. If I go at my usual speed, I expect to be finished with Children of Dune, and at least partway through (if not done with) God Emperor of Dune before daylight on Thursday. Same here. The bitch of it is..you run out of book long before you want to. Yep. Serious PITA, haunting flea markets and garage sales for books you haven't already read. Caught myself reading one of a friend's freakin' bodice ripper books once. Fortunately, I stopped and ran away screaming before the brain injury was permanent. I think. I hope. Then again, I do read misc.survivalism daily at least -- and milk cartons, cereal boxes, documents on peoples' desks from the wrong side, missing child/dog/cat/guinea pig flyers, etc. etc. etc. -- Bring back, Oh bring back Oh, bring back that old continuity. Bring back, oh, bring back Oh, bring back Clerk Maxwell to me. |
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, John Husvar wrote: In article , Gunner wrote: On Tue, 23 May 2006 00:17:23 -0700, Don Bruder wrote: Not bragging - simply presenting a data-point for comparison - but I burn up the typical 300-ish page paperback in about 3-4 hours routinely, and once went through Stephen King's "complete and uncut" version of The Stand in less than 14 hours. I started re-reading Frank Herbert's "Dune" series (Dune, Dune Messiah, Children Of Dune, and God Emperor of Dune) last night. I finished Dune this morning, after about 4 hours of "sit down and read" time. After about 2 hours or so of Dune Messiah, I'm a bit less than 2/3 of the way through. If I go at my usual speed, I expect to be finished with Children of Dune, and at least partway through (if not done with) God Emperor of Dune before daylight on Thursday. Same here. The bitch of it is..you run out of book long before you want to. Yep. Serious PITA, haunting flea markets and garage sales for books you haven't already read. Caught myself reading one of a friend's freakin' bodice ripper books once. Fortunately, I stopped and ran away screaming before the brain injury was permanent. I think. I hope. Then again, I do read misc.survivalism daily at least -- and milk cartons, cereal boxes, documents on peoples' desks from the wrong side, missing child/dog/cat/guinea pig flyers, etc. etc. etc. So I'm *NOT* the last omnivorous reader on the planet! I'd be willing to bet that both of you have seen, and done your absolute damnedest to avoid shedding a tear while saying "It's just not fair!", over the "old series" Twilight Zone episode "Time Enough"? SPOILER WARNING: For those not familiar with it - A young(er) Burgess Meredith is a mousey little bank-clerk type with a tyrant wife, and double-coke-bottle-bottom glasses. He's an avid reader - Everybody seems to hate himn for it. His wife destroys a book he's reading. His boss bawls him out about reading on the job. He's always being grumped at by somebody for snatching a little time for reading, whether it be a newspaper, a paperback romance, the back of a cereal box, the directions for some gizmo or other he'll never seen, let alone put together or use, and so on. One day, he wanders down to the basement vault for lunch with a newspaper and a book. We see the headline of the paper, which reads something like "Atomic tensions rising - world may be destroyed!", and partway through lunch, a mighty shaking that heralds TEOTWAWKI happens. He emerges from the vault to find the blasted ruins of the city, and no people. After stumbling around in a semi-daze of shock for a while and realizing he's probably the only living human in the city, if not the world, he comes to the remains of a library. Starts hauling out stacks of books - With a monologue about Hemingway, and Twain, and Melville and Plato, and others, to the tune of "OK, I might be the last man on earth, but I've still got my dear freinds, so I can be happy", ending (or perhaps "running down") wth "And finally I've got time enough!" Just then, a late bomb flashes in the distance, the ground shakes, and he stumbles down the library steps. As he gets to his knees, we see his glasses have come off. He gropes around, and so predictably, they're broken - We get a view of what he sees when he puts them on - cracked and crazed, a mess of out-of-focus bits and pieces, almost as if the world is being seen through a kaleidescope - utterly impossible to read through unless each letter is the size of a billboard, and maybe not even then. A few moments of realization, and we fade to black on his despairing wail of "Oh, it's so unfair! I finally had time enough..." One of the absolute classics of the show, and right up there in my book with "Flowers For Algernon" (Later turned into the play, then the movie "Charly") for tales I love/hate. Sadder still, to watch it die, than never to have known it... -- Don Bruder - - If your "From:" address isn't on my whitelist, or the subject of the message doesn't contain the exact text "PopperAndShadow" somewhere, any message sent to this address will go in the garbage without my ever knowing it arrived. Sorry... http://www.sonic.net/~dakidd for more info |
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On Tue, 23 May 2006 12:23:55 GMT, John Husvar
wrote: In article , Gunner wrote: On Tue, 23 May 2006 00:17:23 -0700, Don Bruder wrote: Not bragging - simply presenting a data-point for comparison - but I burn up the typical 300-ish page paperback in about 3-4 hours routinely, and once went through Stephen King's "complete and uncut" version of The Stand in less than 14 hours. I started re-reading Frank Herbert's "Dune" series (Dune, Dune Messiah, Children Of Dune, and God Emperor of Dune) last night. I finished Dune this morning, after about 4 hours of "sit down and read" time. After about 2 hours or so of Dune Messiah, I'm a bit less than 2/3 of the way through. If I go at my usual speed, I expect to be finished with Children of Dune, and at least partway through (if not done with) God Emperor of Dune before daylight on Thursday. Same here. The bitch of it is..you run out of book long before you want to. Yep. Serious PITA, haunting flea markets and garage sales for books you haven't already read. Caught myself reading one of a friend's freakin' bodice ripper books once. Fortunately, I stopped and ran away screaming before the brain injury was permanent. I think. I hope. Then again, I do read misc.survivalism daily at least -- and milk cartons, cereal boxes, documents on peoples' desks from the wrong side, missing child/dog/cat/guinea pig flyers, etc. etc. etc. Indeed. I gave away a full sized refrigerator box full of paperbacks to a local library, when my oilfield crew was transferred out of Eley Nevada. Id only been there 6 months... Gunner "If thy pride is sorely vexed when others disparage your offering, be as lamb's wool is to cold rain and the Gore-tex of Odin's raiment is to gull**** in the gale, for thy angst shall vex them not at all. Yea, they shall scorn thee all the more. Rejoice in sharing what you have to share without expectation of adoration, knowing that sharing your treasure does not diminish your treasure but enriches it." - Onni 1:33 |
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Okay, so I'm late and catching up, but Don Bruder wrote
on Tue, 23 May 2006 07:15:39 -0700 in rec.crafts.metalworking : In article , John Husvar wrote: In article , Gunner wrote: On Tue, 23 May 2006 00:17:23 -0700, Don Bruder wrote: Not bragging - simply presenting a data-point for comparison - but I burn up the typical 300-ish page paperback in about 3-4 hours routinely, and once went through Stephen King's "complete and uncut" version of The Stand in less than 14 hours. I started re-reading Frank Herbert's "Dune" series (Dune, Dune Messiah, Children Of Dune, and God Emperor of Dune) last night. I finished Dune this morning, after about 4 hours of "sit down and read" time. After about 2 hours or so of Dune Messiah, I'm a bit less than 2/3 of the way through. If I go at my usual speed, I expect to be finished with Children of Dune, and at least partway through (if not done with) God Emperor of Dune before daylight on Thursday. Same here. The bitch of it is..you run out of book long before you want to. Yep. Serious PITA, haunting flea markets and garage sales for books you haven't already read. Caught myself reading one of a friend's freakin' bodice ripper books once. Fortunately, I stopped and ran away screaming before the brain injury was permanent. I think. I hope. Then again, I do read misc.survivalism daily at least -- and milk cartons, cereal boxes, documents on peoples' desks from the wrong side, missing child/dog/cat/guinea pig flyers, etc. etc. etc. So I'm *NOT* the last omnivorous reader on the planet! Nope. I'll read just about anything printed in English, and will puzzle at German till the brain fogs up. In Russian, I'm reduced to sounding out the words, and hoping something sounds familiar. I'd be willing to bet that both of you have seen, and done your absolute damnedest to avoid shedding a tear while saying "It's just not fair!", over the "old series" Twilight Zone episode "Time Enough"? -- pyotr filipivich. as an explaination for the decline in the US's tech edge, James Niccol wrote "It used to be that the USA was pretty good at producing stuff teenaged boys could lose a finger or two playing with." |
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pyotr filipivich wrote: Nope. I'll read just about anything printed in English, and will puzzle at German till the brain fogs up. In Russian, I'm reduced to sounding out the words, and hoping something sounds familiar. Yep. I can manage to read French, German, some Italian, Tex-Mex and Spanish, and can puzzle out some Russian because it borrowed a lot of words from other languages and just writes them in Cyrillic. (sp?) Don wrote: I'd be willing to bet that both of you have seen, and done your absolute damnedest to avoid shedding a tear while saying "It's just not fair!", over the "old series" Twilight Zone episode "Time Enough"? Scared the hell outta me until my eyes got to where I read better without lenses than with. But, yep, I could really sympathize with the poor character. He maybe could have gone to some pharmacies and got reading glasses or found an optometrist shop and tried leftover glasses until something worked. In that scenario he'd have had endless opportunities because there would have been nothing to hinder him except his eyesight. (Well, and maybe a bit of hard radiation. -- Bring back, Oh bring back Oh, bring back that old continuity. Bring back, oh, bring back Oh, bring back Clerk Maxwell to me. |
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