My other thread.

[Bald Eagle]

I was thinking about all the things I've learned during the course of my life.

Nails and caltrops do nasty things to automobile tires.
It's hard to work in an environment like a laboratory when there are irritants being used - sometimes identical to tear gas - omega-chloro-benzophenone, CN, etc.  It's almost as bad outside the lab when there are things like smoke, skunk, that nasty smell from gas leaks, or the smell of decaying thing in the woods.

Now that summer is upon us, it's hard to work outside in the heat, especially when burdened by heavy equipment, which is why I don't always wear my vest to work.

Babies stay warm because nature provides them with "brown fat" along their backs - the cells have slightly defective mitochondria which have some oxidatively decoupled phosphorylation - they just use up energy producing HEAT instead of doing useful work.  There are simple chemicals that are used in laboratories to oxidatively decouple mitochondria in normal cells.

It's hard to see through glasses or rifle scopes when they fog up.  Once sodium silicate (water glass) or hydrofluoric acid gets onto glass, it permanently fogs the glass.

There are lots of ticks in the woods.

Biting flies suck especially when you're out in the heat in heavy gear.

Spark gap generators and other poorly shielded devices like old brush-style elctric motors interfere with radio transmissions since they broadcast a signal over a huge band of wavelengths.

Linear amplifiers allow CB users to broadcast their signal for MILES.

Trying to heavy or mentally demanding work is difficult when you're sweating profusely, coughing, sneezing, experiencing blurred vision, vomiting, dizzy, having shortness of breath, asthma, migraines, or have explosive diarrhea.

Organophosphate insecticides cause your pupils to constrict like mad, sometimes for days or weeks at a time.

You can't be in two places at the same time.

I'm sure there's plenty more to learn, but I'm still young.

[CNHT]

The brain of a scientist -- I recognize it every time! 

[Bald Eagle]

Yes, yes, an evil scientist - though I have yet to master the deep, maniacal laugh or acquire a secret base on a remote island.  But I'm working on it. Mwuhahahahaaa!

I'm mad I tell you, quite mad.

Actually I'm pretty F*@%#$g pissed off.

[SAK]

Anger can be good when you need to defend yourself and/or others.  It may also be good sometimes to get people off their asses.  Other than that, I'm not a big fan of anger.  Anger is actually a positive emotion, though.

[Bald Eagle]

I'm a big fan of anger - I think that it's blind rage that's not good.

Not enough people get angry these days - especially not about the proper things, if they even notice and comprehend them at all anymore.

I'm sure that Ghandi and others were righteously pissed off.  It gave them the motivation to get the gears moving and oppose the state.  Get the gears moving people.

Halon fire extinguishers stop free radical combustion processes, be they external or internal.