The Be Good Tanyas - Waiting Around To Die (Live at The Railway Club)
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Iaman points out a comment on a Hackaday post about preparing your workshop for your inevitable exit from this mortal coil (whatever a coil is, presumably it's some archaic slang for 'life'):
"My dad had kilos of really dangerous chemicals, the sorts of things that he had to work to get in the late 1950’s. Cleaning that out of mom’s basement when he died was really scary. (Plywood box with 1/4″ lead plate lining the whole inside, full of clearly different metals and mineral specimens. Open, slam the top back down, and go borrow a geiger counter…)P.S. The song was written by Townes Van Zandt. Lyrics here.
I feel like culling dangerous stuff from your collection is something that’s your right-now responsibility. If you need a liter of fuming nitric acid, get it, use it, and get rid of the remains. It’s fine to keep old oscilloscopes because those won’t maim or kill people. But steel containers full of diethyl ether are wildly irresponsible to keep. (Sorry, dad.) They turn explosive if they don’t first absorb water, rust out, and fill the house full of ether fumes at 2AM."
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