Double D Tapes

This is about double sided tapes. Useful little things these. Stick one side, peel of the tape of the second side and stick it to the wall. They say when something is good it either is sinful, wasteful, illegal or atleast fattening. Maybe these tapes are one exception.

But like Fulghum writes, these can be dangerous like "...matches in the hands of a five year old...". My department was putting up some reading light in every cubicle - someone came up with the idea of fixing them to the filing cabinet using double sided tapes. I asked the guy who was putting the lights up whether this would hold - he said that he had tugged and pulled and stress tested one experimental anchorage. It looked neat and no mess fixing them up.

The next morning I come back to my cubicle and find the damn light across my keyboard - yeah - the tape had given out. Damn near broke my monitor.

If double sided tape was not used I wouldn't have trusted the setup and moved my monitor to a safe distance. That's why it is doubly dangerous. But you know what would be good - if they find some way to use the Big D - yeah - duct tape. Apparently D tape was used on some US satellite to anchor some air filter - and made it all the way up and down.