[Noisebridge-discuss] Noisebridge-bedbug

Jeffrey Carl Faden jeffreyatw at gmail.com
Mon Sep 3 20:22:09 UTC 2012 

What are you going to kill on contact? I don't think we've discovered
where the infestation is yet, if any.

Jeffrey

On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 1:10 PM, JohnnieAngell <theblackcycle at gmail.com> wrote:
> I will bring a rubbing alcohol and orange oil solution today. it kills on
> contact.
>
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>>    1. Re: What is this bug? (Rubin Abdi)
>>    2. Re: What is this bug? (Jeffrey Carl Faden)
>>    3. Re: What is this bug? (Danny O'Brien)
>>    4. Another controversy in nuPhysics (fwd) (Jake)
>>    5. Re: What is this bug? (Tony Longshanks LeTigre)
>>    6. Re: What is this bug? (John Magolske)
>>    7. Re: What is this bug? (Rubin Abdi)
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>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Rubin Abdi <rubin at starset.net>
>> To: Noisebridge Discussion List
>> <noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>
>> Cc:
>> Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2012 19:51:23 -0700
>> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] What is this bug?
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>> This seems to be stuck in moderation hell due to the photos attached,
>> but I feel like folks should know.
>>
>> So I found a bedbug earlier today at Noisebridge. A number of folks
>> viewed the bug and two people confirmed that it was in fact a bedbug,
>> recently fed. The little fucker was crawling around on the main table,
>> rather fast. Someone either immobilized it or killed it with a
>> lighter. I left it under a white mug with a piece of paper on top with
>> the words "BED BUG?" written on it. After it was confirmed to be a
>> bedbug, I shook off, packed up, and GTFOed.
>>
>> Feel free to reply back with troll accusations at your leisure, I will
>> just forward them to Aestetix.
>>
>> Rubin Abdi wrote, On 2012-09-02 15:33:
>> > It's about 5mm long and sitting under a white mug on the main table
>> > near the projector.
>> >
>> > -- Rubin rubin at starset.net
>>
>>
>> - --
>> Rubin
>> rubin at starset.net
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>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Jeffrey Carl Faden <jeffreyatw at gmail.com>
>> To: Rubin Abdi <rubin at starset.net>
>> Cc: Noisebridge Discussion List
>> <noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>
>> Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 21:36:05 -0700
>> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] What is this bug?
>> OK, so for the sake of everyone not bringing bedbugs back wherever
>> they might reside, I would happily pitch in for an exterminator. Is
>> this a wise or efficient idea? Anything I should know or anyone I
>> should speak with?
>>
>> Jeffrey
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Rubin Abdi <rubin at starset.net> wrote:
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>> > This seems to be stuck in moderation hell due to the photos attached,
>> > but I feel like folks should know.
>> >
>> > So I found a bedbug earlier today at Noisebridge. A number of folks
>> > viewed the bug and two people confirmed that it was in fact a bedbug,
>> > recently fed. The little fucker was crawling around on the main table,
>> > rather fast. Someone either immobilized it or killed it with a
>> > lighter. I left it under a white mug with a piece of paper on top with
>> > the words "BED BUG?" written on it. After it was confirmed to be a
>> > bedbug, I shook off, packed up, and GTFOed.
>> >
>> > Feel free to reply back with troll accusations at your leisure, I will
>> > just forward them to Aestetix.
>> >
>> > Rubin Abdi wrote, On 2012-09-02 15:33:
>> >> It's about 5mm long and sitting under a white mug on the main table
>> >> near the projector.
>> >>
>> >> -- Rubin rubin at starset.net
>> >
>> >
>> > - --
>> > Rubin
>> > rubin at starset.net
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>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: "Danny O'Brien" <danny at spesh.com>
>> To: Jeffrey Carl Faden <jeffreyatw at gmail.com>
>> Cc: Noisebridge Discussion List
>> <noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>
>> Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 22:10:14 -0700
>> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] What is this bug?
>> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Jeffrey Carl Faden <jeffreyatw at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > OK, so for the sake of everyone not bringing bedbugs back wherever
>> > they might reside, I would happily pitch in for an exterminator. Is
>> > this a wise or efficient idea? Anything I should know or anyone I
>> > should speak with?
>> >
>>
>> Sigh. Maybe worth reading the threads the last time we went through
>> this, where we have endless months of people freaking out, and then we
>> finally actually get around to checking for them with professionals to
>> collapse the eigenbugs. (Warning: during this period, millions of
>> people will post stories about how they had to burn down their own
>> homes to escape bedbugs, how you can get rid of them with kettles and
>> potatoes buried at crossroads, and how basically now it was very
>> important not even to talk to people who have used the Noisebridge
>> wiki because they too might be bedbugs posting under assumed names.)
>>
>> http://www.yelp.com/biz/scent-tek-san-francisco-2 are great, their
>> dogs checked us last time, we got rid of the one couch that *might*
>> have had issues, and nothing was heard of again until now. I'd pay for
>> them again, they are very cute, and in the event that we have a
>> problem, they can recommend good exterminators, and we can
>> double-check with them afterwards. I'll happily chuck in $100 just to
>> avoid the drawn-out freaked-outness.
>>
>> d.
>>
>>
>> > Jeffrey
>> >
>> > On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Rubin Abdi <rubin at starset.net> wrote:
>> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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>> >> This seems to be stuck in moderation hell due to the photos attached,
>> >> but I feel like folks should know.
>> >>
>> >> So I found a bedbug earlier today at Noisebridge. A number of folks
>> >> viewed the bug and two people confirmed that it was in fact a bedbug,
>> >> recently fed. The little fucker was crawling around on the main table,
>> >> rather fast. Someone either immobilized it or killed it with a
>> >> lighter. I left it under a white mug with a piece of paper on top with
>> >> the words "BED BUG?" written on it. After it was confirmed to be a
>> >> bedbug, I shook off, packed up, and GTFOed.
>> >>
>> >> Feel free to reply back with troll accusations at your leisure, I will
>> >> just forward them to Aestetix.
>> >>
>> >> Rubin Abdi wrote, On 2012-09-02 15:33:
>> >>> It's about 5mm long and sitting under a white mug on the main table
>> >>> near the projector.
>> >>>
>> >>> -- Rubin rubin at starset.net
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> - --
>> >> Rubin
>> >> rubin at starset.net
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>> <noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>, Isis
>> <isis at patternsinthevoid.net>
>> Cc:
>> Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 23:07:28 -0700 (PDT)
>> Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] Another controversy in nuPhysics (fwd)
>> omg!  unexplained fizzick fenominon!!!
>>
>> Subject: Another controversy in nuPhysics
>>
>>
>> http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/09/01/1731224/radioactive-decay-apparently-influenced-by-the-sun
>>
>> So-  if we build a really really good analyzer, there might be a Nobel
>> prize at the end of it?
>> --
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>>
>> "Non-locality is spooky action at -zero- distance."
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>> Vow to vanquish the venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and
>> vouchsafing
>> the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition!    (V For
>> Vendetta)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Tony Longshanks LeTigre <anthonyletigre at gmail.com>
>> To: Noisebridge Discuss <noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>
>> Cc:
>> Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 23:58:18 -0700
>> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] What is this bug?
>> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Rubin Abdi <rubin at starset.net> wrote:
>>>
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>>>  So I found a bedbug earlier today at Noisebridge. A number of folks
>>> viewed the bug and two people confirmed that it was in fact a bedbug,
>>> recently fed. The little fucker was crawling around on the main table,
>>> rather fast. Someone either immobilized it or killed it with a
>>> lighter.
>>
>>
>> If it's not dead, we'd like to interview it for a zine article on SROs
>> that's comin down the pipeline. Only fair to get its side of the story.
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: John Magolske <listmail at b79.net>
>> To: noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
>> Cc:
>> Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 00:26:03 -0700
>> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] What is this bug?
>> * Jeffrey Carl Faden <jeffreyatw at gmail.com> [120902 23:13]:
>> > OK, so for the sake of everyone not bringing bedbugs back wherever
>> > they might reside, I would happily pitch in for an exterminator. Is
>> > this a wise or efficient idea? Anything I should know or anyone I
>> > should speak with?
>>
>> Having dealt with eradicating a bedbug infestation, and also being
>> familiar with the expansive sprawling space that is Noisebridge, I'm
>> pretty sure any attempt at chemical extermination would be pointless.
>> Way too much surface area across way too many objects to deal with.
>> Also, chemicals would likely push the bugs this way & that through the
>> porous boundaries of the space, through which they could return.
>>
>> First we should determine if there are actually bedbugs in the space,
>> and if so, where & to what extent. The scent-tek dogs Danny mentioned
>> would be an excellent first step. I used these dogs in my space, and
>> they really do work.
>>
>> If we DO have an infestation, here's what I'd suggest:
>>
>> Block out times where no-one is in the space (maybe overnight from
>> midnight to 8am over the course of a week or two) with traps set up.
>> What I found to be an effective trap was a CO2 emitter mounted above
>> a plastic tupperware container with tape on the outside for climbing
>> traction and talcum-dust on the inside to make it extra-impossible for
>> the bugs to crawl out. In the absence of any humans, they'd go for the
>> traps. The traps not only take them out of action, but also provide a
>> clear accounting of the state of their population.
>>
>> Anyhow, based on my experience, that's what I'd suggest -- move their
>> food sources aside and patiently draw them out. But first, send in the
>> dogs. And if you haven't already, read up:
>>
>>
>> http://www.google.com/search?q=%22bedbugs%22%20site%3anoisebridge.net&btnG=Google+Search
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> John
>>
>> --
>> John Magolske
>> http://B79.net/contact
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Rubin Abdi <rubin at starset.net>
>> To: noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
>> Cc:
>> Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2012 04:16:24 -0700
>> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] What is this bug?
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>> Since Andy is taking his sweet time to approve the email with the
>> photos attached...
>>
>> http://0.starset.net/noisebugs/
>>
>> Again, it was crawling around on the main table under the projector
>> today, in daylight. I measured it at 5mm in length. Someone killed it
>> with a lighter, the remains were left under a white mug with a piece
>> of paper on top labeled "BED BUG?". I stake no claim to more of them
>> existing in the space, but two people today were 100% sure this one
>> photographed very much is a bed bug.
>>
>> - --
>> Rubin
>> rubin at starset.net
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