[Noisebridge-discuss] Bedbug eradication: who's in?

[Nick Shapiro]

Name a time, I'm down to help.

Nick





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From: Christie Dudley <longobord at gmail.com>
To: Robert Fletcher <lobatifricha at gmail.com>
Cc: noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
Sent: Tue, October 26, 2010 1:02:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Bedbug eradication: who's in?

Next week is looking better for me right now as well.  I'm into crunch time on a 
project I'm working on and things are getting pretty tight for me here.

Christie
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On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Robert Fletcher <lobatifricha at gmail.com> 
wrote:

Regardless of whether or not there are actually bed bugs, I think our furniture 
could use a good steam cleaning.  I'd be in for any time this weekend, or 
evenings next week.
>
>-Robert
>
>
>
>On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Jack Perkins <jackaperkins at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>So... there ARE or ARE NOT actual identified bed bugs at noisebridge?
>>Or do we just have mystery symptoms? Or do we just want to play with
>>steam cleaners?
>>
>>-Jack
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>>On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:35 AM, girlgeek_wt <girlgeek at wt.net> wrote:
>>> If by steamer you mean one of those shark cleaner steamers, I was about
>>> to get a new one.  If this project happens, I would be happy to donate
>>> a second steamer to the task.  More attacks at one time.
>>> -Claudia
>>>
>>> On 10/25/2010 1:19 AM, Jack Perkins wrote:
>>>> That'd be pretty rad to steam clean all our furniture, but do we
>>>> actually HAVE bed bugs? I'm asking because I haven't been to the space
>>>> in almost two months now and it'd be nice to know if I should only use
>>>> the plastic chairs and whatnot.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Jack
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 1:12 AM, Christie Dudley<longobord at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>>>>> So buried in a couple of other threads, I made two comments.  A few folks
>>>>> responded.
>>>>> I have a tool - a steamer - which kills insects living in things by pretty
>>>>> much boiling them.  There is no such thing as developing a resistance or
>>>>> tolerance to being boiled alive, so I have a high degree of confidence 
that
>>>>> no matter how highly evolved any bedbugs that may be in Noisebridge may 
be,
>>>>> they cannot survive this treatment.  It also has the added bonus of 
relying
>>>>> on only one chemical, the universal solvent, to destroy the buggers, which
>>>>> conveniently is automatically delivered to the space.  I also hear that 
>it's
>>>>> completely harmless to humans, even the ones with allergies, unless
>>>>> deliberately ingested improperly.
>>>>> So I'm happy to bring my steamer to Noisebridge and help eradicate the
>>>>> bedbug problem, so long as it's not my own crusade.  It sucks working 
>alone,
>>>>> especially in a place that's supposed to be as happy-fun-work-together 
sort
>>>>> of space as Noisebridge.
>>>>> To that end, if I can get 3 or 4 people to commit to a mutually agreeable
>>>>> time in helping me engage in this bedbug eradication scheme, we can stop 
>any
>>>>> potential bedbugs in their tracks.
>>>>> (And incidentally kill any related drama on the list, although that's 
never
>>>>> a guarantee.)
>>>>> Christie
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