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Doors I touched today (1999)

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Re: Doors I touched today (1999)

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Post by afterburner »

ryandrake wrote: post #38
kube-system wrote: post #4

It's amazing that pathogens capable of living on surfaces haven't wiped us out already. Thanks immune system.

I firmly believe the number of upper respiratory infections I have each year is directly proportional to the number of doors I have to touch throughout the day. Once worked for a well-known fruit company with a reputation for paranoia and secrecy, and because of that secrecy, everything was behind locked doors. Therefore, I constantly had to handle doors throughout the day to do anything at work. I'm pretty sure duri…

Or maybe that office had drier air?

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Post by hadlock »

kube-system wrote: post #4

It's amazing that pathogens capable of living on surfaces haven't wiped us out already. Thanks immune system.

Doorknobs and handrails in public buildings transitioned from wood and stone, to polished metal during/after the 1918 pandemic. Turns out wood is a fantastic, warm material to make doorknobs and handrails from, but it's almost impossible to clean and sanitize in a functional fashion.

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Post by piyh »

alex_lav wrote: post #8

Kinda makes me sad that I read this, saw the date and then thought "I hope this person is still alive". 24 years is a long time. I quite enjoy content like this, especially the tagline (maybe a definition of a word that I don't know?): Fluxus: "Unfettered play in search of uncharted insights."

Anybody know how to get reliable hosting after your inevitable death?

Re: Doors I touched today (1999)

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Post by tobyjsullivan »

supportengineer wrote: post #33
kube-system wrote: post #4

It's amazing that pathogens capable of living on surfaces haven't wiped us out already. Thanks immune system.

For public doors I use every part of the body except my hands to open and close them.

Not a comment to you, personally, but I saw someone the other day struggling to follow this philosophy. She struggled to open the door to a cafe for what felt like a whole minute because she refused to touch the handle with her hands.

All I could think was "if only there was some sort of technology that would leverage our biology to make opening doors easy."

(For the record, I was not close enough nor in a position to help out. I'm not that cruel. But I also feel no guilt for laughing inside - it was a spectacle.)

Re: Doors I touched today (1999)

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Post by TylerE »

throwway120385 wrote: post #13
kube-system wrote: post #4

It's amazing that pathogens capable of living on surfaces haven't wiped us out already. Thanks immune system.

Amazingly brass has antimicrobial properties.

So does silver, to the point it’s used in advanced wound dressing. They aren’t cheap though - ask my insurance company! There isn’t that much silver in them, but a 2x2” square is about $4 or so, compared to a few cents for a plain gauze pad.

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Post by intrasight »

By one of those weird coincidences, I found this on HN just after shopping for cabinet pulls on Amazon.

It also made me think of a hotel stay the night before a marathon run. I went to close the window blind and scooting between the chair and the desk my bare thigh came in contact with the drawer pull of the desk which was nearly as sharp as a razor and gave me a deep cut.

Re: Doors I touched today (1999)

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Post by TylerE »

tialaramex wrote: post #9
all2 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Context? What "pointless stuff" do you photograph? I'm partial to taking pictures of graffiti, especially on trains. It's like a mobile art gallery with the occasional unskilled swear word thrown in.

No OP, but I take photographs of infrastructure stuff, especially if I think I might later want to investigate what the deal is. So e.g. I don't have a photograph of the view from the tourist elevator which comes out of a fake chimney on what was Battersea Power Station in Central London (London's electricity was once supplied by huge coal power stations right in the city, today Bankside is a world famous modern art…

Or as many people know it… that thing from the cover of Pink Floyd’s Animals.

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Post by chihuahua »

piyh wrote: post #44
alex_lav wrote: post #8

Kinda makes me sad that I read this, saw the date and then thought "I hope this person is still alive". 24 years is a long time. I quite enjoy content like this, especially the tagline (maybe a definition of a word that I don't know?): Fluxus: "Unfettered play in search of uncharted insights."

Anybody know how to get reliable hosting after your inevitable death?

The main reason I'm looking forward to being dead is that I will no longer have to worry about whether some website is working or not.

Re: Doors I touched today (1999)

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Post by foobarbecue »

supportengineer wrote: post #33
kube-system wrote: post #4

It's amazing that pathogens capable of living on surfaces haven't wiped us out already. Thanks immune system.

For public doors I use every part of the body except my hands to open and close them.

Gross, I can't believe you open doors with your mouth.
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