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[Cerpin Taxt]

<--- works field service on instruments like this one:

I'll get nicks like that all the way up past my elbows, some days.

 

[nageov3t]

I'll never forget my first day on the job working in a data center... one of the guys lost a finger

that facility had really shitty cooling (and let's be honest, my stupid company waaay overloaded things. they didn't believe in leaving space between servers, cables were ran everywhere -- including under the floor where the AC was being pumped in from -- it was a total mess). to help out with the cooling, they had big industrial fans blowing down the hot rows.

common sense would dictate that if you're going to move a fan that size, you turn it off, wait for it to spin down, and then move it. instead, the guy moved the fan while it was still spinning away on high, and his finger slipped through the grate D:

 

[Krazy4Real]

not sure what it is, but every time I build a new PC, it makes me bleed, haha.

You're not using enough lube when you're fapping.

 

[Krazy4Real]

My knuckles look like that on about any given day in the winter. The simple motion of wrapping them around the steering wheel is enough to make them bleed some days. No copious amounts of lotion can keep it from happening.

Try using Eucerin Aquaphor. That stuff is amazing.

 

[Bateluer]

Thats it? Little flecks of blood, pfft. I have scars from the scratches in my upper arm where a Dell rail tore into it, and on my middle finger where a 1U server scrapped roughly 2mm of flesh off.

 

[kage69]

Try using Eucerin Aquaphor. That stuff is amazing.

That is good stuff, but Outdoor Hands is better IMO...

http://www.drugstore.com/products/p...&matchtype=e&gclid=CO3WnubO8bsCFc07Ogodv0wAzw

 

[Brovane]

I'll never forget my first day on the job working in a data center... one of the guys lost a finger

that facility had really shitty cooling (and let's be honest, my stupid company waaay overloaded things. they didn't believe in leaving space between servers, cables were ran everywhere -- including under the floor where the AC was being pumped in from -- it was a total mess). to help out with the cooling, they had big industrial fans blowing down the hot rows.

common sense would dictate that if you're going to move a fan that size, you turn it off, wait for it to spin down, and then move it. instead, the guy moved the fan while it was still spinning away on high, and his finger slipped through the grate D:

Wow - That sounds like a really bad day.

 

[rh71]

back in the 90s I cut off a chunk of flesh from my knuckle messing with an AT case. Those things were sharp as hell. I still have the scar.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I never knew non albinos came in that shade of white.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Remember the old cases, like those Enlights everyone had 20 years ago? If you were in a hurry they'd make you look like a hemophiliac.

http://archive.arstechnica.com/reviews/1q99/enlight7237.html

The local "screwdriver shop" I frequented used Inwins.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Anybody remember those dreaded floppy molex connectors? Every single time, I'd bang my hand into part of the case, or perhaps the ram, or the cpu heat sink, while trying to remove those damn connectors. Usually cut my hand in the process. I don't know why they could not just use a normal molex connector.

Winter is the worse for these kinds of cuts due to dry skin. A while back I was hauling 2x4's inside my car from Home Depot and I got a huge sliver, probably like an inch long. Due to dry skin it just went in super easily. I actually was able to dig it right out. This left a gash of missing skin and started to bleed. It did not even hurt because of how dead that skin was.

I try to use hand cream as much as I can at this time of year but that stuff can be annoying as it makes the hands so greasy. I usually try to do it when I'm watching TV or something so I don't have to touch anything, and I can just let it get absorbed. Lately is worse since it's so cold the windows ice up if I turn the humidifier on so I turn it off and the humidity in here is pretty much zero. We have a humidifier at work but it's off half the time because it's ridiculously loud. It should have been installed in a separate room and ducted in, but they wanted to save money.

 

[highland145]

Where is the squirrel to stab you with?

 

[ch33zw1z]

Next time use a pen or screwdriver to push the recessed power button

 

[jumpncrash]

somewhere in our data center, there's a server with blood on it because I sliced my hand open on the cover doing a RAM upgrade.

There's alot more than 1 server with my blood in it here. And that's without counting all the other techs' blood. THis place isn't really finger friendly...not any body part friendly really, one guy got metal filings in his eye last year and had to go to the hospital.

 

[D1gger]

My knuckles look like that on about any given day in the winter. The simple motion of wrapping them around the steering wheel is enough to make them bleed some days. No copious amounts of lotion can keep it from happening.

I have a friend who had that problem until he started using this:

O'Keeffes Working Hands

 

[zinfamous]

<--- works field service on instruments like this one:

I'll get nicks like that all the way up past my elbows, some days.

Does that doohicky make nextgen libraries, or is it an actual sequencer? The case doesn't look like any of the Illumina machines that I'm familiar with. something along those lines? I see the reagent hoses, the tube bin, etc.

Or is it just high throughput DNA extraction?

 

[vi edit]

I have a friend who had that problem until he started using this:

O'Keeffes Working Hands

Funny you mention that. My Dad is a mason by trade an his hands look like raw hamburger in the winter. He got a jar of that stuff for Christmas and swears by it now.

He uses this stuff quite a bit...it's not for everyone though
http://www.iherb.com/Bag-Balm-Lanol...gclid=CK-R3sSo9LsCFYlDMgodvk4AlA&gclsrc=aw.ds

 

[GobBluth]

Despite feeling woozy, nauseous and light headed from the blood loss I powered through it all to get the server back up and running. I think I might have to go on disability or at least get Hazard Pay though

Thank God you are ok! The dangers of the job will never be understood by common folk.