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| Tool Use* [message #7974] |
Sun, 14 December 2008 19:02  |
 b_twin_1
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I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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| Re: Tool Use* [message #7998 is a reply to message #7974 ] |
Sun, 14 December 2008 20:43  |
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It’s really a thoughtful warmer the necessaries of your life.
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Well I'd hate to have a USB warmer that *wasn't* thoughtful and kept moving your cup to the other side of the desk. (Remember invisible!Buffy? *grin*)
I have a cup warmer, too, though it's actually a candle warmer that you plug into the wall. (Or in my case, the backup battery. Hey, some things are important.) It's supposed to melt the wax from the bottom and give off the candle smell without actually burning anything, but my in-laws report theirs takes forever to melt and so they purchased a new one that melts from the top. Well, mine works great for keeping my coffee and tea warm. That's what really matters.
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Smooshes!
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| Re: Tool Use* [message #8008 is a reply to message #8001 ] |
Sun, 14 December 2008 22:15 |
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| Black Bear wrote on Sun, 14 December 2008 21:10 |
This reminds me of a craft product I used to work with which was called "Friendly Plastic Compound." It always made me wonder if somewhere in a warehouse were bags and bags of "Unfriendly Plastic Compound"--the plastic that punches you in the face when you're not expecting it, or something...
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I bet it does. I'd rather work with friendly plastic compounds and thoughtful USB warmers. It's a good thing there's manufacturers for people like us!
Smooshes!
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| Re: Tool Use* [message #8010 is a reply to message #7974 ] |
Sun, 14 December 2008 23:16 |
skating librarian
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Thanks for the reminder ... Amazon had info on used copies too (works for me).
If Dad doesn't like it my sister in law and I will!
This site is so useful ... you made it easy to send Sunshine to a friend in the UK and let me move the maple syrup to the father's birthday present list (it's in January, argh, as are two wedding anniv. and Mom's birthday ,,, too much)
By the way if you think you've seen bad weather of late, western Ma, NH, and So. VT has had a doozy of an ice storm. Trees were bent down onto road surfaces ... those which didn't just snap off.
I was one of the lucky ones, the power was off only 12 hrs. and the net was down a bit longer. Three days later the area which was hardest hit is still a nightmare, The coating of ice remains ... and they say it will rain tomorrow.
"Winning a war is like winning an earthquake" Jeanette Rankin
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| Re: Tool Use* [message #8118 is a reply to message #8017 ] |
Tue, 16 December 2008 12:42 |
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hedgehog
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Registered: November 2008
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Southern Maine is still entertaining electric-utility trucks from Michigan as of Tuesday morning. My house got power back about an hour ago -- the outage here was almost exactly four and a half days -- and mirabile dictu the digital service was there as well. It's been difficult to sleep for the past three nights because of the atonal roar of generators all around ... now the generators are silenced and the baying of packs of hungry chainsaws is heard throughout the land. For four days, it seemed as though everybody in town was eating three meals a day in the local "townie" restaurants, as an alternative to crouching shivering around a solitary candle eating Trail Mix (or so they claimed). The lines were out the door and around the building.
I hear that there are places on earth where the grass grows year-round and requires MOWING. What little grass is visible under the downed pine branches and ice around here does not seem to be growing very well at all, right now.
And for those who weren't fortunate enough to have generators... it's time to throw away the entire contents of the refrigerator and the freezer. Mercifully, trash day is Thursday.
What does this have to do with tool use? I'll tell you: The most important, ubiquitous, and loved object in my part of southern Maine in the past four days is the Hat Light. There are two flavors -- one is a headband that supports a sort of miner's light, the other is a thin flat plastic object that actually clips on to the brim of a Red Sox cap. They have several "white" LED's and they shine for many hours and they have temporarily become a Reminder Of Our Suffering Together and a default conversation-starter while standing (with all the other Unkempt) in those very long lines at the townie restaurant. There weren't enough Hat Lights to go around, and I'm thinking that Hat Lights are going to be a great Christmas gift for many of the Light-Denied around here from whom Day Labour is demanded... So that's my nomination for Useful Tool of the Week.
But it's (maybe) all over now  except for the "heavy wet snow" forecast for later today 
... comparative Safety on Shipboard / is enjoyed by the Hedgehog alone ...
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| Re: Tool Use* [message #8122 is a reply to message #8119 ] |
Tue, 16 December 2008 13:29 |
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hedgehog
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| AJLR wrote on Tue, 16 December 2008 12:53 |
My goodness, welcome back Hedgehog. I thought you must have been in the badly affected area, going by your posted address and lack of presence here the last few days.
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Thank you -- Yes, I think (and hope) that we are among the last to get power back. My intelligence source at the Hampton Tollbooth tells me that fleets of utility trucks are already heading home to Pennsylvania and other places, so the worst must be just about over (for now).
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Is there a protocol for meeting/conversing while all wearing Hat Lights? I wondered if you had to dip them or similar, to avoid being dazzled?
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Certainly it would be improper to dine with one's High Beams on, and the Blink setting is objectionable unless you're trying to get noticed by oncoming traffic ... but this is, after all, Maine, where flashlights have long been an essential fashion accessory for anyone who wishes to pass as a Native. (I was born and brought up about 210 yards from the state line, on the New Hampshire side, so I am forever branded as From Away -- but I got myself a Wicked Good accent anyhow, and I c'n pass, most days.) Hat Lights are just the latest and most visible variation on a traditional Maine fashion theme. The Pocket Knife is another essential accessory, and a while ago somebody put out a Leatherman knock-off that included a little LED flashlight -- a stroke of marketing genius here in the Foothills of the Agamenticus Range. (Honesty compels me to confess that Mount Agamenticus consists of three peaks, the two smaller ones being known as Second Hill and Third Hill. But Mount Ag itself is only 698 feet high, and a terrible disappointment to anyone expecting an actual mountain, so "Agamenticus Range" is merely a derisive local expression.)
... comparative Safety on Shipboard / is enjoyed by the Hedgehog alone ...
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| Re: Tool Use* [message #8170 is a reply to message #7974 ] |
Wed, 17 December 2008 06:36 |
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glad to have you back hedgehog, i was in the ice storm of 98.it was not fun at all.the power surges blow out our fridge and stove and my kids we 3 years and 3 months.not fun keeping older one occupied on top of everything else. to see the hydro poles snapped off and laying on the ground was a sight i hope to never see again.
Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get
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| Re: Tool Use* [message #8295 is a reply to message #7974 ] |
Thu, 18 December 2008 16:26 |
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Glad to hear you're alright, hedgehog. Do you have all your power back now?
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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| Re: Tool Use* [message #8319 is a reply to message #7974 ] |
Thu, 18 December 2008 18:31 |
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It's like when you have two cars and one is stick and the other is an automatic--there's an adjustment period.
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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