Devil on your shoulder ([info]soundofwater) wrote,
@ 2006-09-27 00:09:00
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Public service announcement
Did you know that if you break a fluorescent light bulb, you're not supposed to vacuum up the little bits of broken glass? That's because they're coated with mercury, and vacuuming up the pieces will turn your vacuum cleaner into a hazardous waste dispenser for the rest of its life.

I just learned this from Wikipedia, after I broke a blacklight bulb and vacuumed up the glass. I'm going to replace the vacuum cleaner, but if I start drooling and go insane because of the mercury exposure I got today, now you know why.

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[info]kuril
2006-09-27 05:26 am UTC (link)
I probably could have guessed that, although I never thought about it. At my last job we had a window that filtered out non-IR light (supposedly). It uses some sort of radioactive substance. So if it got dropped and shattered, we'd end up condemning a large shop-vac, and of course, sending everyone who was around at the time to receive health care.

Well. It's probably good you mention this :-)

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[info]mmarques
2006-09-27 11:15 am UTC (link)
I never knew that! I wonder if there's a similar problem with halogen bulbs.

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[info]thedarkcrystal
2006-09-27 04:07 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, I knew that. You also have to make damn sure that you don't cut yourself with the glass.

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[info]setherghd
2006-10-17 03:21 pm UTC (link)
This reminds me of a video I saw on YouTube.

A tween faces opposite his friend while he shatters a fluorescent light bulb on his back. The pieces of glass penetrate his skin causing him to drip blood in several dozen areas.

I wonder the surprise he felt when he learned the nature of his mistake.

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[info]silkcorset
2006-10-23 03:00 am UTC (link)
what's going on with your hypnosis office place? i passed by the other day and it didn't look open.

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[info]soundofwater
2006-10-23 06:23 am UTC (link)
I could have turned the lights off because I was in session with a client, or, more likely, I wasn't in the office (my hours are irregular because I don't typically have walk-in clients; everybody meets me by appointment). If you want to drop by, let me know what date/time and I'll make sure I'm there. Next week, I'm hosting a bunch of seminars for a speaker from out of town, so I'll be in the office for sure, but I don't know when the breaks will be.

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