I dreamed last night my little laptop QT's screen had cracked in half I bet other people dream of nice things.Furby, it sounds like the effect is getting more powerful. You may be able to make a living charging a fee for not going to places. (like the rain man in HHGTTG)
Hope you got the TVs sorted out in the end.
You may be able to make a living charging a fee for not going to places.
F-O-R (the original) already knows all about that. Buggerit millenium hand and shrimp I tole 'em I did.
I used to work for a boss who had uncanny powers similar to Furby's, not so much for electrical appliances but for computer based engineering systems. The more expensive the system the better he could crash it. He was particularly effective at trade fairs, having great fun at the exhibitors' expense as their prized system stopped working and exhibited the famed: +++ REDO FROM START - OUT OF CHEESE ERROR +++Am trying for Brownfurby's position for record number of broken things in one week. Today it was a lamp and a microwave oven.
The lamp was a touch lamp and I'm pretty sure I whinged when the last one stopped working. The bulb went on this one and on replacing it I found it had lost the ability to turn off and on. Like the last one I had to wire in a switch so I could continue to use it.
If that wasn't enough the microwave didn't just stop working, but tried to burn the place down. When it started making loud crackling noises I suspected all was not well.
Checking the food I found it had not even begun to heat it up and when its little screen said "please consult the manual for instructions" I took that as a hint as well.
I emptied it and unplugged it and found that the whole case was hot and getting hotter even though it was now switched off. The strong smell of burning wiring was not an encouraging symptom.
It was too hot to pick up so I had to find a box to slide it into and carried that down to the car park where I tipped it out and left it sitting in the rain.
Now I just have to wait and see if my ill health this week was due to overly rich christmas food or shortwave radiation.
While I am whinging I might mention the hailstorm that began on the way down to the shop to buy a switch for the lamp and the 4in deep puddles I found myself wading through.
I didn't have the worst day though. That was claimed by the person ahead of me who was walking through one side of said 4in deep puddle when a truck drove through the other side at high speed. Poor Pani. see, there is always someone worse off isn't there. Get well Soon and do not have radiation sickness. My two light bulbs seem minor now compared with dangerous radiation.
I thought I was doing badly having destroyed two of those "last-for-12-years-except-in-furbys-house" low energy light bulbs.
I got in from my mothers, switched on the living room light and it went "ping" , it was dark so I decided to just go to bed and worry about climbing up ladders the next day. When I got to the bedroom the light there had already died of its own accord somehow, so I just had to put covers over my head.
No chance of puddle splashing around here as all the puddles are frozen right now but I have been in the shoes of that poor person and it does make you want to set the daleks on all motor vehicle drivers.Having survived the microwave trying to burn the place down I didn't expect fate to have another try so soon. The 'Touch lamp' I fixed by adding a switch to the cable stopped working entirely. On opening it I found the original cause of it failing was that a little black box inside had melted leaving exposed wires that might have touched the case.
I'm going to go live in a cave with no electricity. All this progress is too risky and tiring.You can't do that. You have to stay and run the board as we'll all go mad without our daily ration of HF.
You have to stay and run the board as we'll all go mad without our daily ration of HF.
That makes me go all warm and fuzzy
Our disasters this Xmas have been more of the mug, glass and plate variety. Six have fallen to their deaths most horribly. It is like lemmings - one falls out of the cupboard and they all want to go.Okay Eccles you have convinced me, but I'm converting the board to clockwork to be on the safe side The ticking is a bit annoying but I expect we'll find it restful eventually, like a favourite old clock. Next Page...
I bet other people dream of nice things.
