{"id":1367,"date":"2004-09-14T02:56:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-14T09:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/wordpress\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2004-09-14T02:56:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-14T09:56:00","slug":"of-all-the-moronic-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/uncategorized\/of-all-the-moronic-things","title":{"rendered":"Of all the moronic things.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, this morning I walked outside to find that a used ion laser I&#8217;d purchased was sitting on my doorstep.. packed in a regular cardboard box with <\/p>\n<p>A: No cover on the laser tube assembly<br \/>\nB: a 20 lb power supply directly under the laser assembly, and flopping around loose<br \/>\nC: a couple of foam peanuts.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a peice of background information &#8211; a argon laser is a plasma tube, and in order to protect the inside of this tube, it&#8217;s coated with berellium oxide. This substance, when it meets with water, turns into a extreme nasty so extremely nasty that the suggested action if you break one of these tubes is to cover it with a dessicant, and call the hazmat people. Yes, really.<\/p>\n<p>[It strikes me that if I were a terrorist, I might just break open a few of these tubes, scrape the powder off, and mail it. Be a lot more effective than anthrax, for sure. Easier to get, too..]<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, so I left him some stunningly negative feedback [I was a little upset by this somewhat reckless endangerment of my life, for some reason], and discovered ebay&#8217;s latest addition to the auction community: private feedback. Now you can opt out of the public feedback system, at which point users can no longer read your feedback. But they can still tell he got a negative one. Wonder if he&#8217;ll give me negative feedback as revenge?<\/p>\n<p>S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, this morning I walked outside to find that a used ion laser I&#8217;d purchased was sitting on my doorstep.. packed in a regular cardboard box with A: No cover on the laser tube assembly B: a 20 lb power supply directly under the laser assembly, and flopping around loose C: a couple of foam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}