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I have been sick. Nasty, unhappy sick. Flat on my back since I got home sick. Alternately passed out, and unable to sleep sick. I think the crisis passed early yesterday morning. I was, at least, able to sleep las night, and had dreams for the first time since Sunday.

In the hazy time of my somnambulance, I did manage to upload some pictures of the eggs I saw in Korea. The pictures are large, and behind ( the_cut )

There are nine photos there. If you have bandwidth problems, you can go to the gallery and look at just the ones which interest you.

Note Bene

This, my friends, is why one doesn't play with UXO (Unexploded Ordninace).

Part of a teacher's hand was blown off when a 40 mm round the instructor used as a paperweight on his desk exploded in his classroom.

Robert Colla struck the round with an object Monday afternoon while teaching 20 to 25 students at the Ventura Adult Education Center on Valentine Road...

"It was just a horrible accident," said Dennis Huston, who teaches computer design alongside Colla. Huston said he had his back turned to Colla and was only about three feet away when he heard a loud bang.

Colla found the 40 mm round while hunting years ago, Huston said. He used it as a paperweight and "obviously he didn't think the round was live," Huston said."

AP via SFGate

Accident? Yes, sort of.

Me, I'll pick stuff up, if I know what it is. Old .50 cal round... sure. I'll eyeball the primer, and if it's dented, I'll put it right back down.

Smoke grenade, no pin? No problem.

Bullet, sure.

Shell...

No Fucking Way.

Shells, have fuses. Fuses can be tempermental. When the shell is fired the fuse is set. Some are impact (viz. the 40mm in the story above) and for whatever reason they didn't get hit hard enough to go off.

The guy is lucky he only lost parts of his hand. Pieces of that could have killed him, or one of the students in the room.