Say Anything Blog

...hence Twain’s admonition not to pick fights with people who buy their ink by the barrel!

A troll is someone who only wants to stir up trouble, not have an honest debate.  Some signs that a poster is a troll:
* Dodges questions from other posters * Refuses to give sources
* When one of its arguments is shown to be false, either ignores the proof or moves the goalposts.  Heh. (From the LGF faq)

Inkjet printes are the least economical printers there are.  That’s why they are so cheap.  Unless you have a burning need for color, get a good monochrome laser and it will be far cheaper in the long run.

"Although I can accept talking scarecrows, lions and great wizards in emerald cities, I find it hard to believe there is no paperwork involved when your house lands on a witch.”
- Dave James

I pay $0.61 per mL of human blood.  Still less than the ink, but not by much.  $275 for a unit which is about 450mL depending upon which anticoagulant is chosen.  Plus shipping.  We pay employees $15 a stick and usually take 5-10 tubes, which is cheaper. We drew over 8 gallons of blood from 40 donors in over 4000 tubes last year.  Almost a quarter mile of tubes end to end if I remember correctly.  That is on top of a unit per week from Memorial Blood Centers and also all of their under and overfills from the donor pool.  I also buy a few gallons of cow blood on site from the slaughter house when we run short of human blood.

I am totally afraid of needles but had to confront that and become a phlebotomist.  Pretty gross, huh.

This is what I love about blogging.  No matter what subject you post on, there always seems to be some intelligent person out there with some first-hand knowledge of the subject at hand.

Thanks RMOG.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

Rob’s recently listened-to songs:

Another example of “giving away the razors to make money on the razor blades.”

hmmm...I’ll just have to start writing my essays in blood. Or, I could just buy a cheap new printer each time I need a cartridge and sell it on ebay when done. I haven’t thought much about laser printers though because I’ve also seen that the cartridges can be expensive, and I hardly use mine right now. I just like the combination print/copy/scan/fax buttons (which come in handy for study groups, etc)

So...does anyone have a blood cartridge that will fit in this printer of mine? I think my teacher will be enjoying all 12 pages of it!