Dealin’ with Diarrhea…doin’ it real!

January 14th, 2010 von Stephan

If you think Diarrhea is nothing to bother and nothing but a symptom or sign, you are WAY wrong…it can…no wrong it WILL fuck you up if it will last LONG and it is dangerous…but no tears and fears - It can be handled without beeing a physician.

Why do I write this article?
First of all, I’m an official victim of Diarrhea…I catch it up at least once a year since I work with infectious patients OR I was getting fucked by a homojock Kebap - Maker - Idiot with lack of hygiene in his meatshed.

I also hear a lot of childish - half knowledge - cowfarm alike - rumors about dealing with Diarrhea…even in the internet on professional webpages which give actual medical ADVICES to people without any medical backround.

I spare you the routine disclaimer, I mean why should I point out that you should catch up professional medical advice and that this isn’t something you should transfer 100% to your case of bad luck?  Thats common sense and even medical disclaimers won’t let this show up in front of the idiots that got and will get killed becaused they tried to cure SEVERE illnesses just by wikipedia (nothing AGAINST wikipedia, I absolutely HATE Wikipedia-Credibility-Bashing - It’s just about the stupid shitbags putting medical advice into practice without load up their brains from a hybernating status.)

If some of my former or future employers will read this, see it as a part of small nursing science research shit. I mean I’m not the new Nancy Roper, but hands down I know something about Diarrhea. It’s still an advance if some of my employers is smart enough to understand the language I tend to write in, but no offense!

No make anything clear, I’m speaking about a short !(1 day to 4, maybe 5 days depending on your system)  diarrhea which is probably from eating something bad or having an infection in your intenstines. Now comes the bad part which is part of my job: Take a look at the diarrhea if it’s anything than fluid shit or something inside (slime, blood, something you might not really identify as old food) this mess must be reviewed by a physician!!!

Also I’m just speaking about diarrhea alone. They are common symptoms like nausea, general sick-feeling (like you have a flu) vomiting, light general stomach-pain and sometimes high temperature. If they are symptoms present which can’t be related to the diarrhea itself or the effects of this –> Physician

THE PRACTICAL PART FOR HELPING YOURSELF STARTS HERE
What causes diarrhea ?

For the average diarrhea it really doesn’t matter which bacteria or which virus exclusevely infected your intestines.  It doesn’t matter!

Does antibiotics help in case of diarrhea ?

I see some physicians prescribing masses of antibiotics against diarrhea, but the guidelines do not see the clinical outcome in this step. This might be a point of discussion for medical experts, but I see it rarely and in case I see it - never helped. Period.

What is the best medication against diarrhea?

Loperamide
I would personally not recommend loperamid in case of in infectious diarrhea…only in cases where you need to buy some time to get yourself in a calm position to heal, but loperamide and any other stuff like this will lower your peristaltic - bowel - movement of and you might give the possible virus or bacteria the best place to establish himself in your system. 37°Celsius - No bowel movement - Wet and dark condition PERFECT for developing of bacterias and viruses. This means the medication loperamide will actually make your diarrhea last LONGER.

Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Yeast) is something very nature and it hasn’t got many side effects, no relevant to me I think. It will re-establish the intenstinal flora in your colon and it will fight the bacteria. It helped me very often and also you can take this as a PRECAUTION a week before a flight to turkey or egypt OR you know that you’ve eaten something from the east that tasted not very good. Take it, it won’t bother you that much except some well…sounds and flavor.

This is basicly the BASIC medical treatment of diarrhea, if you are not interested in the whole understanding part you start here.

This is my flowchart like “MGS RADAR Diarrhea Treatment Scheme”
CAUTION: Brain must be used by application!

  • If you have the first Diarrhea like stool and no other symptoms that may lead to a serious shit (take the word!) LIKE stomach mumbling or a “different” feeling in the guts, you start preparing but you should not call the cavalry ! One time can happen!
  • If you got some strange feeling that this might last longer OR you have the second occur of diarrhea take exactly ONE pill of loperamide + 2 - 3 pills of  Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Perenterol etc.)
  • In the first two days take 2 pills of Saccharomyces cerevisiae three times a day after the third day and if the symptoms are weakened take one tablet three times a day until you got exactly one week after the first occur of diarrhea
  • Go to the local supermarket and buy:
    - Three bottles of Powerade or similar like Isostar (without bubbles, with sugar and with electrolytes, they need to be isotonic!!! NO ENERGY DRINKS!) The Powerade is the base of your re-hydration it works very fast and very well to my experience
    - Lots of salty stuff like Potato Chips, something that you really like
    - Buy lots of water without carbonide and with some taste in it, so that you can consume masses of water.
  • You go home and consume the bottles of powerade in a row, after that you need to drink at least 2 liters of water, if you are able to do more drink like a moron!
  • Eat the salty stuff whenever you feel like it
  • The keypoint behind this is, if you are hydrated very well the side symptoms like weakness should be lowered to a point on which you can keep alive daily tasks, but KEEP A LOW PROFILE . You gotta imagine your body has a large wound and it may lose MUCH fluid.
  • You should keep hydrated like this at least for a week
  • Now comes the part which many people don’t aggree with, THERE IS NO REASON TO STOP EATING NORMAL FOOD. You can eat a light version of your normal stuff, but if you feel very good there is NO REASON to stop eating.
  • Avoid food like: Whitebread, ANY FASTFOOD, eating outside, very sweet things, FAT FOOD, Salad, EGG
  • food to like: Fruits in general, Carrottes, Apples, BANANAS, Potatoes
  • Don’t drink alcohol, it’s a rollercoaster for your digestive system
  • Use common sense!!

Be safe!

Stephan

["If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear!"]


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Are you annoyed by your touchpad ?

November 26th, 2009 von Stephan

You know the times, where you want to type something longer on your laptop and anytime you brush over your touchpad you anger level rises?

http://code.google.com/p/touchfreeze/downloads/list

Here is the easy solution, works very well ! (But it needs to be deactivated during gaming!)

Stephan

["If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear!"]


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Surviving a boring Wedding

November 11th, 2009 von Stephan

Every man has to face one challenge in his life…he will at least once be invited to a wedding party which has no great expectations for him. It will be boring, it will be just fulfilling his duty…but there are ways to survive.

Definitions and Beforehands
The first thing you have to clear up for yourself is how the boredom factor of the wedding will be…the determinants of the facts are the following

  • Weddings which are away from your home so that you have to take a room or at least a sleeping place are usually more boring than other weddings.
  • Weddings which you can attend with your first officer of choice OR girlfriend are usually more entertaining than if you are invited alone or just because you are the boyfriend of x…
  • Do you know the bride? Do you know the pair? If you have a semi-relationship to the pair, the boredom factor rises
  • What was your first reaction as you heard from your invitation?  The more bad-ass the reaction will be, the higher the boredom.
  • Are any other people around you know? When was the last time you had contact with them? Try to remember your social network

Planning and measures beforehand

The very important thing you have to do is to plan your logistics

  • Plan your arrive and your leaving very narrow, no extra day to spent in the woods. If you plan very close you always have to say “I have to leave, I have to work next day
  • It is better to come with train or plane because they don’t change their schedule…if you choose to be individual, your schedule is determined by many factors
  • Know the schedule of the wedding, it is crucial ! If you want to cheat you have to know WHEN to cheat.
  • Don’t regret your selfishness, if you really don’t relate to this wedding, they can take  a shit on your presence, so you just play the row-filler. Time is crucial in these days and you have to manage YOUR time.

Strategies by location

Church

  • Be on point! Don’t waste any time by coming to early to sit in the front row, the pair won’t even recognize you because they are to busy remembering one,maybe two words or reading some speech from a card.
  • If you are late you can choose a row far behind, away from interested people, lenses, photo- or videographer who can document your mental absence
  • Look for a small book or something familiar to entertain your brain, hide it in the singing book.
  • Pick out random people sitting in the church and try to guess their biography just based on their appearance, inner laugh guarantee. Put them into funny categories like “This is the guy who works in an office, but tries to fullfill his dream to be the handyman at home by wasting his time to add a not-necessary room to this house”
  • Be familiar with the church code of conduct….know when to stand up and when to shut the fuck up

Wedding Dinner

  • Pre-plan the fact, that you need to ask for a place close to the buffet or kitchen, you will be served first in general and the faster you eat the earlier you are gone
  • Really use the dinner time, use it to stack up your body fat for at least a week, if you live alone you’ll appreciate a good, warm middle class dinner FOR FREE
  • Study the menu so you can chose effective!
  • Ask everyone you seem to like about the day program, try to inform yourself about the enemy and it’s logistic so you can make an escape plan.
  • Enjoy the eating, it will be the best thing of this day so really enjoy it and spent time with the dinner, there is no reason to panic here!

Wedding dance/Wedding games/Photograph shoots/wedding gifts

  • There will (hopefully) be many people around.
  • Now comes the bastard trick: Be a photo - poser if it is important to you that somebody notices your presence. Be a poser, try to be surprised if the picky and gay photographer will take a picture but use your chance. If you are on 10-15 photos per 100 shots your presence is well documented and many people think it was important to you
  • Be one of the first group or individual to hand out the gift, be the smug and be one of the first, you can make on “CHECK” more on your list
  • I don’t like dancing, I hate it and the best trick about avoiding it is getting stuck into semi-deep conversations with wedding guests you really don’t know and which are easily fooled by your words. Try to look enthusiastic. Also you can hide near the buffet and if the danger is coming go to the buffet and pick something random, people won’t bug you with dancing.
  • The best chance to escape is the phase where it starts to loose up and the chained husbands start to get drunk. Be around with a beer or more , if you are determined by another person get drunk as fast as a british mate, so you are the first guy to get sick from drinking or feeling not so well. If everybody is lightly drunk, ESCAPE
  • Many people are afraid from saying goodbye to the main host so they will notice your absence. Try to expand the time you are present in the room so the main host won’t notice you so much and by the right timing just disappear without saying sorry, if you document your presence well and loose enough traces, they won’t notice your escape
  • Even if they notice you escaped, who gives a shit?

If you make it right, you did your duty VERY well and also you save your time from boredom!

Stephan

["If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear!"]


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Try Google Chrome!

September 20th, 2009 von Stephan

http://www.google.com/chrome/?hl=de

Yesterday I installed the newest version of Google Earth and this included Google Chrome.

I’m very confident with this browser without any unessesary attachments….easy and fast..give it a try!

Stephan

["If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear!"]


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Link Avalanche II - The darker side of the internet

July 12th, 2009 von Stephan

Here I got some blogs and youtube channels which you might consider to subscribe in order to gain more knowledge:

Knowledge:

Bookmark or RSS !

Stephan

["If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear!"]


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Never get into an accident around 8:00AM…

July 2nd, 2009 von Stephan

…because you will die!(A recent study showed that the surviving rate for the victim of a heavy traffic accident with possibly life-threatening injuries in industrial settings is at the lowest point around 8.00AM) A friend of mine, which used to install electric arrangements at my girlfriends flat told me about an accident he had several months ago. He struck over a moped driver and he did a summersault right into the greener side of the road. His experience was, besides from beeing the idiot, of the hour that nobody really pulled over except

1) One off duty police officer coming home from his shift
2) One off duty firefighter
3) A boy, something about 14-16 years of age

This experience is something, which in my years of nursing and medicals practice and also  years of volonteer fire service, natural to me. I really don’t expect easy first aid from bystanders or members of public. During my first years it was kind of frustrating but now I have given up my rage.

In this times, people don’t give a shit about other people…or the people are over-caring the whole system. The span of our society between good and bad people is getting bigger, there are less gray zones.

The only time where people give a shit is, when they experience the same or at least the likewise amount of disaster. If people experiencing a bad situation together, you can really see that the solidarity between completely unknown people rises. I have seen this around some heavy summer storms where basements where filled with water (and a whole street r block was drowned) or during bad exceptional storms like Kyrill….but this is different.
I speak to a damn female university student, which has the main subject catholic theology and chemistry for teaching. She tells me about her stress (I didn’t know her until this conversation) and that she doesn’t know how to put all the things she must obviously do into her 24hours day and 7 days week. Then she kindly asks me what I’m doing, and I tell her that I’m a nurse.

I don’t really give a shit about random people. But I’m not a bastard at all. If I read a newspaper about some corpse from a traffic or railroad accident, I don’t feel a single second of dismay, because why should I worry about it? I have enough things to worry, sad story and I really don’t want to think about the relatives but after 5 seconds even this little to no dismay is gone. I have to give a shit in my job, it is my profession and I’m payed to care about people and their requirements. And not only physical requirements, I mean anything. I give a lot of shit to the people I have in my care even if I don’t like them but I get payed to set back my personal displeasing and I’m trained to do so. PERIOD.

In my second job as a firefighter I do not get payed to care about, but I chose to care about the citizen in danger and his belongings. If I’m not into the whole caring module of firefighting I probably need to look for other options to endure my free time.

In my private life I also care about many people who are very important to me, but this is usual as everybody does that.

But if some lucky loser is laying on the street with a stroke or a bad wound on his head, it is not a feasible argument that I don’t care about random people why should I care about this victim of coincidence? Everybody will need help someday even from complete strangers, it is something that you will get back some day in some time, without any payment and without anything than a thank you and a handshake from the paramedics. But this should really be adequate.
Most people have either a highly god-like image of a nurse or they have the image of some pricks sitting in an office doing nothing but drinking coffee and flirting with doctors. She REALLY told me: “Well you got an easy life as a nurse!”

“Why ? And then she says “I have to get up at 06:00 and then I have to take the first bus at 6:45 to catch the train at 7:15 so I can be at my first lecture around 7:50!” Inside myself I deeply think and amuse myself. Then I tell her, that the time you went up my work starts and the time you place your ass right in the university chair I have done washing 4 to 8 patients or I’m busy preparing patients for things.

“But you don’t have such a big responsibility than I will have as a teacher!”

I really like these comparisons between completely different jobs.
Some minutes later, we bypassed the usual first conversational bullshit some party guest had drunk way to much and sat opposite of us, doing not so well…he knew my conversational partner and told her “Ah I’m not feeling good!”

She shakes my shoulder like a moron….”Well you gotta do something, you are a nurse!”

And I said, no you are the one claiming you’ll have the bigger responsibility…so let’s rock!”

She felt challenged and went over to him, did some fancy shaking of his head and tried to move him over to more fresh air (Despite the fact that we acutally WERE outside in the garden, but let’s just cut this out!) which was not a good idea because the guy fell down in the grass.

She felt helpless and tried to move him up, which didn’t work but looked quite funny…then all of a sudden she outburts

“You’re a bastard, you can be legally charged with non-assistance of a person in danger!”

I paused a little bit and told her”Well, this “PATIENT” here is not in any real danger , he just drank too much let’s just help him to arrange himself to get home and place him in a bed!”

I showed him the way out and his bike, and then he grabbed the handlebar and went home in a, almost too strict, line. <--Patient happy, Helper satisfied
After this a discussion about first aid blew out the last remaining persons. I will not summon the usual, I just want to state what is my impression of me as a medical-trained first-responder.

In case anything happens, nobody is responsible for first aid because it is not her problem, BUT if there is a medical trained person in the room he is the only one responsible for help.

This is the particular reason why I carry around more than a bandage-packet in my car, this is the reason why I have a bigger first aid kit. In case anything happens, I'm alone and I can have the highest responsbile persons, bosses, CEO's, master chiefs and maybe leading humans around me...in case you need first aid, the lower-class nurse has the highest responsibility and the barking bastards convert into shoulder-twitching bystanders with lots of index fingers.

Any person who is able to put a nail in a wall is able to place a warning-triangle. Any person who is able to wash his car is able to put a person in recovery position. It's always the same, it requires training and it's so easy to do. But there won't be much more people surviving on the street IF first aid training is mandatory in a fixed time corridor. It just stretches the willingness and the responsibility of people. It just puts the responsibility to get yourself trained in several things over to a bigger and even higher allmighty mass. It won't change the fact that people are driven by greed, anxiety and the struggle to care for themselves and doesn't give a shit. They are a few exceptions, but these people don't need much training in first aid because they do more than the usual.

I offer anybody in my far-friend-circle first aid training but I don't ask for it...they have to ask me. Any step towards the question if they are interested can be far over-interpreted as smartassing or self-presentation. Not my board of game.

Some people tell me "Wow....if you are on a scene everybody survives"..but this won't be the fact. The chance that these people will get better is higher, but I can't do magic tricks on the street, and even less, If I'm without my equipment. Easy-standard-first-aid isn't worse than my kind of first aid. You don't have much items in your toolbox, my toolbox is filled with lots of things and this isn't easy to always pick the right tool. People with no backround-knowledge don't think far and don't think so much..they just do and follow the algorhythm. Which is enough for people who are not trained in medicine.

There must be a gray zone, a zone between the one particular person who doesn't care at all OR thinks that he is the master of the situation and tells everybody not to move the patient and leave him alone.  There must be a gray zone between people who don't know shit and the ejaculated ladies who are so proud that they managed to do a recovery position the first time of their life in their first aid course.

 

Be a part of that gray zone

My rage is away, learn first aid!

Stephan

["If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear!"]


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Tankstelle, DIY (Do-it-yourself)

November 24th, 2008 von Stephan

Schrottreifes Auto in der Garage stehen welches dummerweise 2 Tage vor Totalschaden vollgetankt wurde?

Wie bekomme ich den Sprit raus?

Eure Eltern werden euch wahrscheinlich sagen..Aquariumschlauch + einmal kräftig saugen + Eimer drunter und schwupps ist der Tank leer.

Das Problem an dieser Sache ist, das a) der Schlauch meistens nicht über den Einfüllstutzen hinaus gehen d.h. man kann saugen wie ein bescheuert und b) die Gase die man einatmet sind nicht nur ekelhaft sondern hochgiftig.

Nächster Versuch war genauso prickelnd, das Auto auf einer Seite aufbocken und versuchen, den Sprit so zu neigen dass er in den Tankstutzen reinläuft…leider nicht funktioniert.

Der dritte Versuch war wahrscheinlich der vom Fachmann, denn darauf bin ich erst später gekommen…mit viel Probieren^^

Schritt 1:
Ablassschraube vom Tank lösen, und schnell oder am besten direkt und einen Eimer möglichst ohne jegliche Wasserreste und den man nich unbedingt mehr zum putzen brauchen will oder kann drunter stellen.

 Tankstelle, DIY (Do-it-yourself)

Schritt 1.1:
VERDAMMT , warum ist der Sprit denn schwarz?

Ganz einfach, unter dem Tank befand sich eine Menge Dreck und Schmutz der mit in den Eimer und somit in den Sprit gespühlt wurde, es mußte eine Lösung her.

 Tankstelle, DIY (Do-it-yourself)

Schritt 1.2:
Do-it-yourself-Filter einbauen

Man nehme
- Einen abgeschnittenen Flaschenkopf/Hals als Trichterersatz
- Eine gebrauchte Strumpfhose, doppelt genommen darüber gespannt
- in Fresenius-Institut-Testbehältnis zur Analyse der Probe

Den schmutzigen Benzin durch diesen Filter kippen, und das Ergebnis WAR:
 Tankstelle, DIY (Do-it-yourself)

Astreiner Super-Benzin!

Schritt 2
Den Sprit filtern und in den Reservekanister einfüllen

 Tankstelle, DIY (Do-it-yourself)

Schritt 3:
Tanken!

 Tankstelle, DIY (Do-it-yourself)

Stephan

["If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear!"]


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Review: LED Lenser Quattro

August 3rd, 2008 von Stephan

Jeder Mann braucht einen kuriosen Sammeltick, mein Sammeltick sind seit ein paar Jahren Taschenlampen in verschiedenen Arten. Ich interessiere mich besonders für die ständige und stetige Weiterentwicklung von LED-Taschenlampen in kleinen Format, insbesondere von dem Punkt aus dass ich äußerst ungern häufig die Batterien einer Taschenlampe wechsel.

Ich suche jedoch seit längerer Zeit nach einer Taschenlampe, die mehrfarbige LED’s und somit verschiedene Lichtfarben anbietet. Dazu ein kleiner Exkurs.

Weißes Licht wird immer als extrem hell empfunden, ist allerdings nicht immer sinnvoll um bei Nacht zu arbeiten. Unser Auge ist Nachts im Vergleich zu unseren tierischen Freunden eher lächerlich ausgestattet. Wir benötigen im Mittel 5-10 Minuten um uns an die Dunkelheit zu gewöhnen. Sobald allerdings ein kleiner Schein weißes Licht an unsere Augen kommt, ist die Nachtsicht erstmal hinüber und das Auge muss sich erneut umstellen.

Bei roten, grünem und blauem Licht sieht das anders aus. Diese Lichtfarben machen (die theoretischen Hintergründe kann ich im Moment nicht liefern) die langsam angepasste Nachtsichtfähigkeit nicht kaputt. Deswegen sieht man immer öfters gelblich-rötliche Straßenlaternen.

Jede dieser Lichtfarben hat einen speziellen Vorteil:

rot

rotes Licht ist, solange man nicht direkt in die Lichtquelle sieht, über Distanz nicht so aufällig wie weißes Licht. Wenn ich in volkommender Dunkelheit eine “weiße” Taschenlampe anschalte, so ist der Lichtkegel bzw. die in der Luft schwebenden angeleuchteten Partikel wie Wasser, Staub oder Nebel sehr weit sichtbar. Wenn ich stattdessen rotes Licht benutze was in der Farbe wesentlich dunkler ist, so ist der Lichtkegel an sich nichtmal aus 10m Entfernung sichtbar.

Rotes Licht hat im Gegensatz zu weißem Licht eine wesentlich gleichmäßigere Lichtausbeute und man kann mit weniger rotem Licht mehr sehen als mit weißem. Es ist allerdings eine Gewöhnungssache, die ersten 10min sieht man erstmal nichts und empfindet den Lichtkegel als ineffektiv, was damit zusammenhängt dass sich unser Auge erstmal an die Dunkelheit gewöhnen muss. Nach einer gewissen Zeit verbessert sich dieser subjektive Eindruck jedoch. Der wesentliche Plus des roten Lichts dürfte der Fakt sein, dass die Nachtsichtfähigkeit hier am besten erhalten bleibt. Außerdem ist rotes Licht bei Nebel und evtl. Rauch und Regen durchgängiger und blendet den Nutzer nicht. Der einzige Nachteil von rotem Licht ist, dass es auf Dauer müde macht.

Hier ist ein Foto geschossen aus 3m Entfernung um zu verdeutlichen wie schlecht man rotes Licht ausmachen kann, die eigentlich Lichtquelle ist im oberen Viertel des Bildes zu finden, die beiden roten “Flecken” sind nur Reflektionen des Bodens. Würde man eine weiße Lichtquelle wählen, so würde die Umgebung hell wie ein Christbaum erscheinen.
 Review: LED Lenser Quattro

grün

grünes Licht beeinflusst ebensowie rotes Licht nicht die Nachtsehfähigkeit des Auges, sorgt allerdings für eine hellere Ausleuchtung der Umgebung als rotes Licht. Wenn man mit Nachtsichtgeräten oder mit den Nightshot-Modi einer Kamera arbeitet, so stört das gründe Licht hier nicht.

blau

blaues Licht ist eigentlich für Jäger gedacht, die Blutspuren folgen müssen. Blut hat bei blauem Licht eine aufällig schwarze Farbe und ist somit einfacher zu sichten. Ebenso wie rot und grün wird die Nachtsehfähigkeit hier nicht wesentlich beeinflusst, und das blaue Licht hält insgesamt wacher und macht nicht auf die Dauer müde.

Der Zweibrüder LED Lenser Quattro
 Review: LED Lenser Quattro

Der LED Lenser ist im Handel für 12-20€ erhältlich und ist wie auf dem Foto sichtbar etwa faustgroß. Die Verarbeitung ist robust allerdings kommen wir zum ersten Nachteil der Lampe. Sie ist rund und in schwarzer Farbe hergestellt. Sollte man die Lampe Nachts verlieren und es ist die einzige Lampe die man dabei hat, so wird man diese Lampe mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit nicht mehr wiederfinden. Eine eckige Aufmachung und eine eventuell hellere Farbe wären nicht schlecht. Die Lampe ist allerdings sehr leicht und handlich und bietet mehr Lichtleistung als wesentlich größere Taschenlampen.

 Review: LED Lenser Quattro

Die Lampe wird mit 4AAA Batterien betrieben, die in einem Batteriepack zusammengefasst sind. Die Lebensdauer einer Batterieladung beträgt laut Hersteller 70 Stunden.

 Review: LED Lenser Quattro

 Review: LED Lenser Quattro

Wie ihr hier sehen könnt, hat die Taschenlampe insgesamt 6 LED’s von denen drei weiß und jeweils eine rot, blau und grün ist. Die LED’s lassen sich über farblich gekennzeichnete Schalter an- und ausschalten. Es sind verschiedene Lichtkombinationen möglich als auch alle LED’s gemeinsam einzuschalten was die Ausleuchtung verbessert.

Der Ausleuchtungstest

Ich habe mich für 10min mit meiner Kamera in den unbeleuchteten Keller zurückgezogen und habe versucht, die Ausleuchtung festzuhalten wobei ich sagen muss, dass es auf den Bildern deutlich schlechter rüberkommt als ich es empfunden habe. Das bedeutet die reale Ausleuchtung war deutlich heller.

Es wurden farblich unterschiedliche LED’s verwendet

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 Review: LED Lenser Quattro

Am angenehmsten arbeitet es sich mit dem grünen Licht, wobei das rot und das blau auch nicht zu unterschätzen sind. Die absolute Schwäche der Taschenlampe ist die Fernbeleuchtung, sie ist aufgrund des nicht vorhandenen Reflektors auch nicht dafür geeignet. MIt allen sechs LED’s hat sie eine sehr starke und helle Nahfeldausleuchtung und kann wie man oben sieht auch sehr gut gesehen werden.

Fazit:

Die Lampe ist für den Preis von 12-20€ eine gute Investition wenn man eine Lampe für das Auto oder für die Runde Gassi mit dem Hund braucht. Aufgrund der Größe ist sie überall schnell verstaut und ist gut als eine Lampe die man “immer mal” dabei hat.

Pro

- Verschiedene Lichtfarben zu Verfügung
- starke weiße Beleuchtung
- unterschiedliche Betriebsmodi und Kombinationen möglich

Contra

- Rollt leicht weg
- Im Dunkel unmöglich auffindbar
- Keine Fernausleuchtung möglich
- keine Blinkfunktion
- Teilweise weiß man nicht wie man das Licht wieder ausbekommt;)

Stephan

["If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear!"]


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Be careful what you look for

August 2nd, 2008 von Daniel

In two months I will be blogging out of London - but as it would be considered as rather unconventional to live full-time in a café with internet access I am looking for a suitable opportunity to flat share. Now we live in modern times, so there are numerous platforms to look up potential rooms. One of them I am spending quite a lot of time on is uk.easyroommate.com. Just recently I stumpled upon an offer of “Jessica”, who appereantly coulnd’t wait another minute to have me as a flat mate.

This might sound a bit strange, and it was strange because there were some indications. When I have been asked to transfer money through Western Union I had the sad truth on the table: I wasted my time with some ho that wanted to rip me off. Nevertheless… to some extend it was also a valuable experience to see how sneaky internet criminals want to get to your wallet - without stealing your credit card number or hacking your pc. Thinking now back there were many suspecious signs I want you to tell about. It may be of use to anybody also looking for a room via the Internet or for conducting business in general online.

Be alarmed:

  • If the other guy seems to be in a hurry; “Jessica” tried to get me sign an “agreement” in less than two days
  • If you are asked to write as soon as possible on a private e-mail address; Some platforms like easyroommate want money for turning profiles into premimum accounts for a limited period of time. It happens that honest people will want you to write on their private address because their premium account is nearly used up. Criminals take advantage of that and will tell you a similiar story. In fact they do that because they know the administators will delete their ad sooner or later
  • If the pictures are too good to be true, or with other words: When the ad is designed by the average Joe, be suspecious if the flat pictures look like taken out of a catalogue or a professional portfolio
  • Same matter when it comes down to pricing: Be aware that if the price/value ratio is significantly better than with most other comparable offers there might be a flaw
  • A typo once in a while is ok, but there might be a credibility issue if the other side claims to be English and is writing like a third grader; However there is always a chance that you are not dealing with a pretender, but with somebody who is plainly dumb
  • If the advertiser is buttering you up excessively; Sentences like “I am so happy for you that you have a flat and that we will move in together and blabla” in the second e-mail are more fake than the smile of the Wal-Mart customer greeter
  • If the person says he or she will be waiting for you on MSN messanger in the evening and you spot the person already in the afternoon online; This might be normal for a sales person whose job it is to wait for customers all day. It is not for the regular buddy that wants to rent a room and has hopefully better things to do than to wait for you all day
  • Even when a seamingly thorough contract and proof of ID has been provided to close the deal. I either received first class Photoshop art, or the passport has been “borrowed” without the owners notice
  • If the person asks you to provide any deposits before you get to see the room; Once you pay you will neiher see the flat nor the money
  • Be double alarmed if the person asks for Western Union money transfers; You can’t withdrawal the transfered money anymore. When sent it’s gone and it’s way too easy to pretend to be somebody else and pick up money at some Western Union office. Some try to fool their victims by asking you to send money through Western Union to yourself. They will tell you that this enables them to see whether you actually have the funds. What they will do it reality is that they’ll go with a fake ID to the Western Union office and burn your money
  • ——————————————————————————————————————————That’s all my wisdom guys. Stay safe and never forget: Too many assholes out there want your money!

    Daniel




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    Geld gespart durch Wirtschaft

    July 26th, 2008 von Stephan

    Heyho Leute!

    Nun mal wieder auf Deutsch nachdem ich mehrere “for ze English reader” Artikel geschrieben .

    Ich bin nachdem ich den Youtube Account von “cutlerylover” mal durchgesehen habe auf den Maxpedition Fatboy Versipack(1) gestoßen. Eine Tasche die ich sehr praktisch fand vor allem für meine Einsätze in der ambulanten Pflege und auch im Krankenhaus wo ich permanent Prüfungsunterlagen, Praxisanleitungsunterlagen, Literatur als auch Essen & Trinken mit mir rumschleppen muss. (Ein Artikel über Everyday Carry im Pflegedienst kommt noch, schon lange geplant!)

    Jedenfalls variiert der Deutsche Marktpreis ebenso bei Ebay und bei bekannten anderen Versandhäusern bei 70-80€ + Versand. Ich hatte bis jetzt aus…wie soll man es sagen…Angst vorm Unbekannten und den angeblich hohen Versandgebühren. Außerdem bin ich erst seit ca. einem Jahr besitzer eines PayPal Accounts der solche Sachen einfach möglich macht.((Über den abartigen Service von PayPal will ich mich hier nicht auslassen))

    Nachdem ich Ebay konsultierte, entdeckte ich bei folgender Suche , dass ein Versandhaus aus den USA den Sack auch für 35-50$ anbietet. Ich habe bei meinem Angebot von 50$ nach Umrechung über Yahoo! Finance ausgerechnet, dass ich insgesamt 35€ zahlen muss. Das Shipping kostete 28$ was heißt 17€ Versandgebühren.

    Gegenüberstellung:

    GER: 75€ + 4,50€ Versand = 79,00€
    USA: 35€ + 17€ = 52€

    d.h. ich habe ein Ersparnis von 72€, der Verkäufer war äußerst freundlich und freute sich wieder mit Europa ein Geschäft machen zu können.

    Bin mal gespannt wann das ankommt ;)

    Stephan

    ["If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear!"]


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