[geekchick to Cats, who had just flopped down (as is his wont) in front of her laptop, pressing the (rather poorly-located) button on the front which turns off the WiFi. This while streaming the latest episode of Castle ( Read more... )

If you insist on maintaining x and y coordinates that overlap my keyboard's, don't be surprised when I adjust its z coordinate to be more positive than yours.
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Note_to_Cats: Tickling me by rubbing up against my leg while I am using a Very Sharp Knife is not the best idea you ever had.

Note_to_flist: If your LJ style is more legible after Ctrl-A than before I'm probably not going to read your posts.
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I have a new pad of Post-It notes in front of me and I think it's broken. Instead of having all the sticky ends together at the top of the pad, like all previous pads of my experience, it alternates them, with the sticky part ("top") of each sheet stuck to the "bottom" of the sheet below. Thus when you remove one sheet you have to rotate the pad ( Read more... )

Note to whoever designs syringes: The single-use insulin syringes we get have a bright safety-orange cap. This seems backwards. The cap isn't sharp, and when it's on the syringe is safe. With the cap off the syringe is dangerous, but then the bright orange cap is elsewhere and the nearly-invisible needle has nothing to draw attention to it. The ( Read more... )