
Best of luck for a speedy recovery for the missus. As for controlling computers, writing reports. Could you hook up a laptop to the tv and control it via a cheap wireless mouse and keyboard which you bin when she ceases glowing?
My wife is radioactive. I'm terribly excited about this, to be honest. It's like living with a superhero or a 1950s B-movie starlet just before she grows to 50ft. And while the house may be host to the occasional randy spider on the lash at night, my wife was not bitten by some escaped bug from a science exhibit. Radioactive …
How about putting an iPad/tablet/eReader into a thick plastic bag? People do it when they want to surf/read in the bathtub and want to avoid accidents. Touch works reasonably well through plastic bags.
So long as the bag(s) was careful disposed of and she was careful where she put it down, I'd think it would keep the radiation localized...
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My first thoughts too. Wireless kb/mouse sets are everywhere and cheap, so it's not too traumatic to bin them afterwards.
My second thoughts were wondering if you could use her to power a steam turbine; but it *is* Friday.
Wishing Mrs. Dabbs a speedy recovery. Good luck.
Depending on just how she's leaving radioactivity around the place... if it's her natural physical exhalations, that's one thing. If she's irradiating everything that she touches, then that's awfully complicated. And it kind of rules out the "tablet/netbook in shrink-wrap (except over the heat vents)" idea, unless you can verify that the radiation doesn't pass through shrink-wrap. I'm told that alpha particle radiation is absorbed by tissue paper. So:
http://basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2010/1/13/how-to-explain-what-the-hell-you-are-doing.html
On the other hand, she may be emitting anti-matter. In that case, disposing of he mattress, and chairs, may be a self-solving problem.
It's always the bloody deflector dish! Want to kill a marauding space alien? Re-route primary power through the deflector dish. Want to preserve all life on this planet we found? Reverse the polarity of the warp core and re-route it through the deflector dish. Want some popcorn? DEFLECTOR DISH!
... actually that one might work pretty well.
"But surely he can reverse the polarity of the forward deflector dish...?"
Only with verteron particles encoded on a triaxilating frequency with the warp core EDN conduited.
My lady had a similar issue with anti-cancer drugs. Luckily, she could not exhale the molecules as they
were quite large. Otherwise she would have had to have been isolated in an air-proof bubble. Which
reminds me: should Mrs. Dabbs not be using a filter mask? Or would that be taking precautions to
a ridiculous degree? Iodine is a small enough atom to exhale, I think. Certainly it can dissolve into
exhaled microscopic droplets of moisture.
My lady's issue with the possibility of contaminating others with anti-cancer molecules became a
non-issue a couple of weeks ago, but I don't use her cups even after washing them. I'm slightly
nervous that she may return to claim them.
Will this be SKINtiLLATING or SCENTelating?
Speaking of verteron particles, if applied to a male, would it be vertiFORM CITY end which the male GOES to TOWN?
Speaking of verteron particles and thinking of Vertiform City, this reminds me of Data, when he tried to append to the Bridge Crew's humor:
Data: There ONCE was a woman from VENUS whose FOREHEAD was shaped like a...
Picard (Annnoyed): DATA!!! Another TIME, perHAPS!
Will that work if you just want to eat your cornflakes out of it? Could be worse if you have to bin an entire set of forward deflector dishes.
On more practical note Ikea sell individual dishes (and plates, forks, etc...) that Mrs. Dabbs (may she have a speedy recovery) may bin when all this is over. Actually how do you bin this stuff, is it classified as low-level radioactive waste and do you have to do something special with it?
I'd also like to echo dogged's post. It seems the C word has most of us on its on its list, the bastard.
I Googled radioactive iodine treatment, and found that anti-thyroid drugs exist as an alternative treatment... and that while doctors strive to minimize everyone's exposure to radiation, so as to minimize the risk of cancer, radioactive iodine treatment poses no real risk to one's family - at least according to the Thyroid Foundation of Canada website.
Hence, your wife may have been inconvenienced more by her doctor's solicitors than by any real necessities deriving from her therapy.
www.leapmotion.com
Perfect for not actually having to touch anything, exremely precise and lag free.
Initially looked a bit fishy to me, but now it's been demoed in 'the real world' so to speak, pretty effectively -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYgsAMKLu7s
Oh and the other thing, unlike all those demoed in the article, the leap controller looks like it might actually make it to an actual product come the new year.
Oh and a floaty metal ball is!? Or giving it a chance at least - is a floaty metal ball a better solution than the Leap?
I'm not going to justify the Leap controller to someboy who's too stupid or ig'nant to see its potential, I'm also not going to 'big-up' the controller, or blow it out of all proportion like some might try to do.
Suffice it to say, out of all the lame assed conceptual non-products demoed in this article, the Leap is actually being marketed, soon. And doesn't look like some strange control device you might find in Barbarella or any weird 60s sci-fi.
This whole business sounds absurd on multiple levels.First of all, for this woman's exhalations to be anything remotely like a threat to others she'd have to be carrying around such a dose as to make her death assured. Her skin should be sloughing off by now.
People have been given a ridiculous fear of anything that can be described as radioactive, no matter how minutely compared to natural sources we life near our entire lives. This has made for some really intensely stupid coverage of the situation in Japan in which the reporters rarely mention the vast gulf between detectability ands levels that might actually have an effect on a person.
Further, a cheap keyboard and mouse cost what these days? You couldn't spare a few quid to let the lady get on with her life instead of feeling like a contaminate spewing freak? Even a low end laptop can be had for remarkably little these days. Though if her husband is this silly of a person she might want to think about the cost of entirely separate living quarters on a permanent basis.
A doozy and oozy for the hard wear de part ment
Could give a (w)hole new(d) meaning to havin' a blast "Bustin' a CAP in his (or, if you purr fur, herrr) asss". (No, not related to cattle prods....)
Could give rise to (w)hole new t(h)erm called "CapASSisSTANCE", and could be a new way to test how long a man could "stand" to the heat or haunched on twos.... Taking the rear.. Uhh, standing at the ready.... (that's assuming this is a new form of chASStity belt..."
Could give rise to a new scale in the Ohhhhhmmmm meethur meter.... Evern thermo meters as flux gives absolute rise to gauss... But, would the gauss be gastronomical or astronomical (missing a couple of "s" in those two words).
Butt, umm, but, a cat suit would probably drive the Doctor BATty or CATatonic.... S/he might moan, "Just purrrrr fekt.... Dahhling..."
Why do radiographers wear the big lead aprons and stand behind blast shields when taking an X-Ray, yet you get to sit there in your Jeans and T-Shirt right infront of the big nuclear camera? It's called essential exposure, you don't expose yourself to radiation unless you have to. It's why you stand there for the X-Rays without protection (Because you need the X-Rays), but the radiographer takes those steps for protection. I'd say Mrs Dabbs needs this radioactive treatment, but I'm guessing Mr Dabbs and the little Dabbs don't and so are advised to take measures to avoid exposure.