[Noisebridge-discuss] Noisebridge-bedbug

Jeffrey Carl Faden jeffreyatw at gmail.com
Mon Sep 3 21:54:26 UTC 2012


Thank you for volunteering to cover Noisebridge with rubbing alcohol and orange oil daily!

Jeffrey

On Sep 3, 2012, at 2:53 PM, JohnnieAngell <theblackcycle at gmail.com> wrote:

> you use it as preventive daily
> On Sep 3, 2012 1:22 PM, "Jeffrey Carl Faden" <jeffreyatw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > On Sep 3, 2012 5:00 AM, <noisebridge-discuss-request at lists.noisebridge.net>
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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)
> >>
> >>
> >> ---------- 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?
> >> -----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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> >>
> >>
> >> ---------- 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:
> >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> >> > Hash: SHA1
> >> >
> >> > 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-----
> >> >> Hash: SHA1
> >> >>
> >> >> 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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> >> >> _______________________________________________
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> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >> From: Jake <jake at spaz.org>
> >> To: "noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net"
> >> <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?
> >> --
> >> Jerry Chamkis (Mac Mini)
> >>
> >> "Non-locality is spooky action at -zero- distance."
> >> www.teslaphone.com/OTE/TIME.mp3
> >>
> >> www.kosmophone.com
> >>
> >> www.aerco.net
> >>
> >> 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:
> >>>
> >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> >>> Hash: SHA1
> >>>
> >>>  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?
> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> >> Hash: SHA1
> >>
> >> 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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> >>
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