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Most people is pretty quiet right about now. Me, I see a stiff -- one I didn't have to kill myself -- I just get, the urge to, you know, do stuff. Like work out, run around, maybe get some trim if there's a willin' woman about... not that I get flush from corpses or anything. I ain't crazy.

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tommyrot - Dec 29, 2007 1:09:50 pm PST #9758 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

What's weird is it's not the total weight of the battery, it's the weight of the lithium metal in the battery. How is the average TSA security person supposed to figure that?

NoiseDesign - Dec 29, 2007 1:10:08 pm PST #9759 of 10001
Our wings are not tired

Just means packing spares in checked baggage. Thankfully I typically don't travel with spare laptop batteries. I'll have to check on the spare batteries for my video camera and still camera and move them to checked baggage when I travel.

tommyrot - Dec 29, 2007 1:11:12 pm PST #9760 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Nah, certain spare batteries can't be checked either.

NoiseDesign - Dec 29, 2007 1:15:45 pm PST #9761 of 10001
Our wings are not tired

The only ones that are forbidden are Lithium Metal batteries and those are almost never found in consumer goods. Those are used in things like high end Anton Bauer battery packs for production and broadcast video cameras. It's really not going to change much.

Also just re-read the chart and had my columns backwards. You can still carry almost every thing on. It's really only Lithium Metal that is going to have a big impact.

Jessica - Dec 29, 2007 1:16:12 pm PST #9762 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Just means packing spares in checked baggage

You'd think that, but:

# You may not pack a spare lithium battery in your checked baggage

NoiseDesign - Dec 29, 2007 1:25:29 pm PST #9763 of 10001
Our wings are not tired

I just read through the whole safe travel with batteries things and it's all stuff that should be pretty common sense and that is pretty much what all the manufacturers write up anyway. Plastic bags is one option for spares, but the other perfectly reasonable one is to just put a piece of tape over the contacts. This is something you should do with loose li-ion batteries anyway. They can short and when they do they spark, it isn't pretty, trust me on this. Something like a coin in your bag can make them short and spark.

Connie Neil - Dec 29, 2007 2:05:10 pm PST #9764 of 10001
brillig

Hubby had a pair of batteries spark on him in his coat pocket. If he hadn't smelled something weird, his whole coat might have gone up with him still in it.

sarameg - Dec 29, 2007 2:13:36 pm PST #9765 of 10001

My new quilt: [link]

My mountains: [link] (Organ Mountains)

Dinosaur (well, a little after them. Paleolithic Paleozoic, I believe. So animal) footprint about 10 minutes from my parents' home, on the west mesa. Look for the claw marks: [link]

Fern impression: [link]

§ ita § - Dec 29, 2007 2:20:42 pm PST #9766 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

That's a lovely quilt, sara.

Jesse - Dec 29, 2007 2:21:55 pm PST #9767 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

That's a great quilt. And the rest of the pictures, too!

How soon can I go to bed, do you think?

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