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...story that got Baker in trouble featured, in addition to the ceiling fan, acts performed with superglue, a steel-wire whisk, a metal clamp, a spreader bar, a hot curling iron and, finally, a match. Ordinarily, the story might never have drawn attention outside the voyeuristic world of Usenet sex groups. But Baker gave his fictional victim the name of a real female student in one of his classes. When university officials were alerted (by an alumnus who spotted the story on a computer in, of all places, Moscow), they gave Baker a psychological evaluation and had him escorted...
DIED. GEORGE ROBERT STIBITZ, 90, computer pioneer; in Hanover, New Hampshire. In 1937, working in his kitchen, Stibitz cobbled together a primitive adding device out of dry-cell batteries, metal strips from a tobacco can, flashlight bulbs and telephone wires. Many consider it the earliest antecedent to the digital computer. Frustrated as a Bell Labs researcher, Stibitz eventually joined the faculty at Dartmouth...
...foil to a point that is connected, literally, to the ground. In dorm rooms, try touching the foil to an unpainted water or heating pipe (such as the pipes under the sink in the bathroom or the pipes near the radiator). If aesthetics is a problem, try touching the metal part of a wire--any wire--to the foil and run the wire to ground. Tape the whole thing up so it doesn't fall apart...
While same-handed confrontations on the average favor the pitcher, managers can let the situation get out of hand. A great pitcher hurls well against almost everybody, while your old heap of scrap metal reliever will stink against most batters. Please don't relieve Roger Clemens with Greg Harris unless the guy is really tired--it just isn't fair to the fans...
Power cords can also be covered in tin foil and grounded to a metal object...