Welcome back for more safety tips. Last time we learned how not to use a soldering iron and today we will move on to probably the next most popular nerd/geek tool which is, of course, glue.
When he's not keeping strange hours producing even stranger prototypes, we sometimes let our resident mad scientist out of his lab. Hans is a huge fan of the annual Tucson Gem & Mineral Show, so we always release him for that.
Since the bulk of Slashdot have probably at one time or another thought it might be fun to solder something or make a model, I thought I could offer some suggestions on how not to harm yourself.
You're welcome. :)
Some other fun April Fools tidbits: #1) The Squeeze bacon was actually made from frosting! We wanted something that would hold up well under photography and video conditions and not go rancid. A combo of shortening, powdered sugar, food coloring, wheat germ created the bacon-looking goo, while the bottle was from a product called 'Coco Real' which we just spray painted and labeled up. It was edible, but it wasn't bacon. #2) Our unicorn chaser was made using pink body wash and lots of glitter, and was decidedly not edible. #3) Those portal shirts took a long time to prototype well, and in our case, the cake was not only not a lie, but delicious!!
At work, the authority of a person is inversely proportional to the number of pens that person is carrying.
