Do not.
Just wanted to say that if y’all need someone who’s got a background in combinatorics, I’ll be standing by. 
Did anyone else open this thread thinking that it was about a woman whose dress was clinging a bit too closely to the contours of her body?
I didn’t think about that one, but I assumed it was about people who don’t bother to use surge protectors on their computers.
Robin
Did you really say “whereas”?
And did they really say “their”?
I know just how you feel, JT. One of my co-workers, after I had warned him several times, did not take the proper ESD precautions and blew up his $40k, tunable, 405 nm ECDL. Idiot. He then wanted to borrow one of my lasers (I had a nice tunable one like his (the diode is AR coated) and several micrometer tuned Littman configurations with uncoated chips) and I told him to take a hike since I could not afford any down time if one of them was destroyed. This guy would regularly transport and store laser diodes without shorting the pins for fucks sake.
Is that and Extended cavity diode laser or an External cavity diode laser? Or are they the same thing?
If you gave one to me, I’d probably run the pins through my beard.
Nerd Fight!!!
I just wanted you to know that someone appreciated your joke.
Maybe he was trying to sneak a peek at Miss Interocitor.
Oh, geez Lou-eeze! Your coworker, JThunder, was a dickless idiot, and arguing with dickless idiots does no good.
Repeat after me: “No. No. Absolutely not. I don’t care. No. Buy your own goddamn LED, Dickless.”
There’s something to be said about teaching middle schoolers. You learn pretty quickly that arguing is a waste of time. The only drawback is when you threaten to flunk people who actually aren’t one of your students.
At some point don’t you just have to graciously turn and leave? Jesus, that’s like having an argument with a 2 year old. It’s extremely aggravating and unproductive.
Well, I find when dealing with my 20 month old, it is very effective to mimic what she is doing. I think that dropping on the ground in a big heap, making an appropriate groan/no/moaning in frustration sound, then thrashing around a bit with arms and legs akimbo would might have possibly broken the logic barrier he was entrenched in.
Or ya coulda just bitch slapped him and said “MINE!”
Your friend’s a moron. I blew out a keyboard with my static electricity once. Calgary is the static electricity capital of the world - I just assume that I always have a static charge on me (and I’m rarely wrong). The zaps I get getting out of my car are actually painful.
For the next time Tactile Dude comes round, wire a cheap LED to small capacitor . . .
The LED itself cost about $15 – not outrageously expensive, but still pretty costly (remember, this is for a single diode). It’s a bit more expensive than other high-intensity LEDs, but not by a huge amount. It certainly costs enough for me to want to handle it with care, as I don’t believe in flushing $15 down the drain just for fun.
This baby is a top-of-the-line performer, even in comparison to other high-intensity LEDs. I also paid good money for a bunch of ancillary hardware – a mating board, a hefty heat sink and some connectors. Most importantly though, I didn’t want my work to be set back by days just because some bozo nonchalantly decides that static electricity is an unwarranted concern.
There’s also the possibility of shortening the life of stuff. Even if the static electricity doesn’t completely destroy something. You install something and it seems to be fine, but then a week or month later… zap. And you have no idea why.
::raises hand::
You keep out of this! He does not have to shock you now!