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You know, doing this just spreads the spores over a wider area.
Come Spring, this place is going to be infested with Coppermines.

--Patrick
 

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What's the source of that? Looks like a former grad student of mine who I happen to know is really into extreme sports.
 
The camera and it's pole, of course, appear stable, so my brain made that "safe" and the first time I saw it and he let go with one hand my heart skipped a beat thinking he'd fall off since he couldn't hold onto the "safe" thing single handed and support his weight. As though the camera pole were part of a bungie jumping cable, or hang gliding rig, and the only thing keeping him from falling.

Had to readjust my mental frame of reference.
Once I realized he not attached to anything, my first thought was "HELMET! WHERE IS YOUR HELMET?!?"
 

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It hurts watching this. I've broken some of my Christmas toys the day I got them, and it was awful.

There's also the part of me that says "this is why you use a fireplace screen" and "oh, it's getting sucked in by the fireplace draft, this wasn't just a random movement of the toy, it was getting pulled into the fire by predictable air currents."
 

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My daughter insisted on one of those stupid fairies last Christmas. Damn things never fly right, and judging by the Internet it wasn't just ours. That's probably the longest I've seen one fly.
 
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