Important news Twitter ONLY - again

That's not a slap in the face. THIS is a slap in the face:

Very. Twitter is nothing but people posting the minutae of their everyday lives, I don't see why I have to be forced to join it if I want to learn the minutae of the devteam's lives.

So I do Software Support, I've got the source code and even written some of my own...my clients know this. And I still get people who argue with me about how I'm wrong.

Luckily, if they don't know Word or IE, that's not my problem. And if they ask a really stupid question I can tell them to go get trained.

Insulation on either end does the same thing for you, but insulation on the ends actually touching the parts keeps the clamps from arcing over onto other parts.

LEGION OF VALOR - Be a part of the Legend!

My monitor at work is the same way. A little light just below the bottom of the screen that burns bright blue into my precious eye sockets. It's like a laser pointer right in the face. I covered it up with shredded post-its as best I could. Fortunately, my monitor at home, the one I'm using right now, has a duller, green light that faces down from underneath the screen. I can see the light reflecting off the base of the monitor, and my eyes are fine.

I don't know who tests these things at the lab, but I'll just assume they see spots wherever they go.

Angel Red
"We're heroes. Fighting injustice is the thing we do." ~Rebel Scum

Well, first off the character is notoriously BAD at being a mad scientist, since he is, at least in part, a parody of the Archetype, used for comedic purpose. Secondly, and to actually quote the man, himself:

I still don't see how that stops holding the metal parts from being dangerous...

Oh, is that actually from something? I thought it was just random web weirdness

If electricity can't flow INTO the metal, then holding it should be safe. I don't know how safe it would FEEL, but it should technically BE safe. That said, those have already been explained to be clamps, and as close as I can tell, the plastic tips are there to prevent the clamps from damaging the objects they are clamping together. As someone who never shies away from using a pipe wrench to open bottles (seriously), I can easily testify as to how much damage metal under pressure can do.

Dr. Insano is Spoony's most famous "character" which he seems to have invented for... No real reason that I could pin down. As best I could tell, he may have mentioned making Insano for one of Linkara's "previously" segments, but since Spoony's own videos are not in chronological order, I can't tell if the character doesn't appear earlier than that.

Basically, Dr. Insano is a sketch character that's developed a bit of an offshoot personality.

And I FRIKKIN' HATE the new wavy lines for unrecognised words in Firefox 3.6!!!

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Half of one, six dozen of the other actually. That was an image of Doctor Insano, a character mostly seen on both the Spoony Experiment and Atop the Fourth Wall. Both of them are review shows, the former will rant about anything and is probably one of the biggest leaders of the "FFVIII sucks" movement. The latter is newer and focuses on bad comics.

The character is brought out whenever either of them need a villain, or to point out exceptionally poor decisions made by the villains, or to rant about the pseudo-science used.

So what you're saying is...I can't use them to start my car and they don't turn on light bulbs? I don't get it.

That's what they remind me of - those cable things to make a car start - although I'm not sure that's the right way to do mad science - I think you need to harness lightning or something, not just use a car battery

Technically, you can't see what they could be connected to. I seem to remember some versions of Frankenstein where something looking remarkably like jumper cables is used to connect the lightning rod to the bolts in Frankie's neck.

Although, that still doesn't solve the problem of why the end bits, which should be metal, so as to make the connection, are covered in rubber/plastic, and the handle bits, which should be covered in rubber/plastic for protection, are in fact metal - even for mad science, it looks shockingly dangerous.

Pun is......intentional?

Like I said, for a mad 'genius' he can really be pretty stupid. From what I can remember he has:

*run for president under his own name (even he didn't think it'd work)

*tortured a robot to death because the robot made him get a haircut

*successfully killed the actor who plays him in order to replace him with Kirby

Yes

They're just general purpose clamps, like someone said. The end bits are rubber because that provides a more secure grip than the metal tips, and to protect what's being clamped in some cases.

I had a guy call to complain that his cable box was running hot. He'd been in the US Army and worked on tube-driven electronics like decades before, so he knew electronics, and his cable box was too heavy and too hot.

He did not want to hear about advances in microchips, let me tell you.

I suspect you're right. A big black spot in the bottom center of their vision. I am so totally checking out my next monitor to make sure it doesn't have some weird light trying to burn the Intersect into my brain.

Forget that, I wanna be a supah-spy!

Operative word: trying

But holding electrical clamps by the metal bits is more fatally stupid than pretty stupid