Sorting Shotwell files..? & "people bugs".. & resizing icons in home-dir..?

[Timothy Murphy]

Linda McLeod wrote:

> The world is right in the middle of a full-blown serious "chigger, mite,
> and bedbug plague"..  99% of human itches are from microscopic-spiders
> feeding..
> Proof: Dab a tiny bit of petroleum jelly "vaseline" on an itch.. If the
> itch disappears in about 20-seconds, it was a feeding spider-mite that
> ran out of oxygen, and died from the grease blocking its air intake.. it
> suffocated..
> 
> If you use public keyboards, like at universities, hospitals, coffee
> houses, and such, and happen to notice horribly itchy hands and nose
> just a few minutes later, that's spider-mites feeding..  They feed by
> injecting digestive fluids into a cell.. the cell explodes, thus the
> itch...

This sounds slightly nutty (as well as OT).
I never read about it anywhere else,
and I am an addict of health scares
("Mobile phones reduce sperm-count by 90%", etc).



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Timothy Murphy  
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