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Re: Common Battery Type -- Just Another Myth?
I've definitely moved batteries from one device to another. Not so much while backpacking, but caving can involve multiple lights, cameras, flashes, GPS, and sometimes instruments (water quali...

In General Lightweight Backpacking Discussion » Common Battery Type -- Just Another Myth?
January 31, 11:11pm

Re: Re: Jokes don't humor people. Punchlines humor people.
President Obama is currently going some place? Jerry, when that is true, the Air Force has 2 more take offs than landings. >Some president died while in flight? Something did occur duri...

In Chaff » Newtown
January 31, 11:05pm

Re: Re: Re: Re: Jokes don't humor people. Punchlines humor people.
Daniel has provided an accurate, relevant factoid.

In Chaff » Newtown
January 31, 11:03pm

Jokes don't humor people. Punchlines humor people.
>"It ain't the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop at the end....." Somehow that reminds me of a pilots' saying, "Take offs should equal landings." Wh...

In Chaff » Newtown
January 31, 7:40pm

Metric
GramWeenie? Gramwerks / Gramworks? When I programming in machine language (yes, machine, not assembly), my dba was Bit by Bit. And my license plate was BITXBIT.

In General Lightweight Backpacking Discussion » Ultralight Backpacking Company Name
January 31, 4:02pm

Bridges kill don't people. Hitting the water at 160 mph kills people.
>"I remember reading - don't know if it still holds true - that suicides often increase around holidays." Doug: I was teaching First Aid / CPR at an oil refinery a few decades a...

In Chaff » Newtown
January 31, 3:56pm

Drugs and naughty bits.
When I do bring prescription drugs and creams, I love professional samples. It helps that I live with an MD, but when you or a loved one goes to the GP, Dermatologist, etc, they can ask, "my ...

In GEAR » What do you carry for First Aid?
January 31, 3:48pm

Re: Re: What do you carry for First Aid?
>"I was trekking in Nepal, and I was up around 14,000 feet when I sustained a painful muscle injury in my diaphragm. Fortunately, I had some prescription-strength painkillers, and that got ...

In GEAR » What do you carry for First Aid?
January 31, 1:37pm

Guns don't kill suicide victims, suicide victims kill suicide victims. But the guns sure up the "success" rate.
Stomach full of pills? Activated charcoals and/or pump their stomach. Bullet to the brain? The ER doesn't have a good fix for that. Ideation to action can be as little as 5 seconds (kno...

In Chaff » Newtown
January 31, 1:27pm

Not much. But I've done a lot of training.
I concur not only that if you don't know how to use Xxxx (such as sutures), then leave it home, but would also point out that ou usually shouldn't suture in the field (this from my wife, an...

In GEAR » What do you carry for First Aid?
January 31, 12:36pm

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