Idiot stuff

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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First off, this is a mini-rant about stupid stuff I do. Second off it’s not there to serve as a lecture hall about the stupid stuff I do.

Last night, we had just AWESOME thunder/lightning around here. They counted over 5700 strikes of cloud to ground lightning in three counties. This is a tremendous about. It was incredible and exciting. ( http://www.cwcm.net/storms.html ) Well I managed to properly turn off both computers, unplug the surge protector and phone line with no problem. (trust me one of the first hits was close and frightening if not exciting.) Gee that sounded kinky.

Anyhow, tonight a huge thunder clap sounded outside the house. I managed to turn off my main computer completely but forgot to turn off the other one before unplugging the surge protector. That’s Idiot #1. (If I had a UPS I wouldn’t even worry about it that’s Idiot #1 1/2.)

Idiot #2, I come back over to my computers, plugged in the surge protector and computer #2 started to fire up. Well, I have this lame ass Norton Utilities program installed on it (comes in handy if you uninstall it after you are done with what you need to do) but the uninstall program choked up a while back and never bothered to fix it.

Anyhow, I know the key strokes to get NDD to go through it’s steps so computer will boot up without having the the monitor installed on it.

So I grab the other keyboard with cigarette in between my two fingers in my left hand (of course it’s facing down) I put the keyboard on my lap, quite quickly, and jam my frickin’ cig into the inside of my left thigh. The cherry of it broke off and there was burning tobacco sitting on my thigh (close to my knee) burning my skin.

Well, Idiot #3 shows up and wipes the burning tobacco on the floor, on some paper etc.

Luckily Idiot #3 isn’t that stupid and sit there to just stare at it but picks up the burning tobaccy with her hands. Luckily her hands are tough and she manages to get said burning material into the ashtray without further injury.

Okay, Idiot #1 is a tech chick – so why was she so idiotic about turning off her computers?

Idiot #2 knows better than to, first, smoke but she’s addicted but second, she knows that putting her cigarette down is important when moving her keyboard around, she’s done this before.

Idiot #3 looks at Idiot #2 and says “You Idiot!”

BTW, the smell of your own skin burning is horrible. I hope I don’t have too bad of a blister. Idiot.

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Ooops: http://www.cwcm.net/storm.html

Dangit.

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tc

There’s not a tech here who hasn’t accidently unplugged a powered-up computer. And there’s not a smoker here who hasn’t jammed a cig into skin. AND for those of us, like you, who do both, we’ve probably done both within a fairly short time period. Welcome to the club, dear. It only gets more fun!

grem

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Idiot #4 mistypes the url

ya goof! :wink:

:smiley:

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Techchick, overlook the giggling; I’m laughing with you, not at you. Hell, if you were perfect we’d have to up and shoot you anyway.

Kicketh thyself not, and put Neosporin on the burn. It’ll heal much faster, cleaner and with minimal scarring.

Veb

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There was a old lady who swallowed a fly
I don’t know why she swallowed the fly
I guess she’ll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a frog
She swallowed the frog to catch the fly
I don’t know why she swallowed the fly
I guess she’ll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed…

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Well, it is starting to blister – damnit – and you can see little red spots from where the cherry broke apart. Now I am going to have this freakish thing on my leg while in Vegas. God, it looks like some horrible skin affiction.

OY!

If I make it to bed with no other injuries tonight I will be amazed. I will probably wake up to sleeping on my arm now. You know that feeling where you can’t feel your arm.

You roll over on your side and you have to throw your arm over the other side of the bed with your working arm so it will get back some circulation. You sit there at first it’s kind of a fun sensation then it turns to tingling pain?

Hey at least I didn’t burn the house down, I just smelled that fine stench of burning skin.

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[Homer]“Mmmmmmmm…hot Techchick smell…”[/Homer]
::ducks and runs::

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Isn’t that a new perfume from Calvin Klein?

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It certainly should be, if it isn’t.

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grem0517 said

Oh yeah. And dropped a lit cigarette on my lap while driving down the highway at 70 MPH. And brainlessly stuck the lit end in my mouth–twice, no less. (Most smokers only manage to do it once.)

But my favorite all time mental meltdown was a time I was working with a soldering iron–I forgot what I was doing and picked it up by the barrel while it was on. This was right before my high school graduation–I graduated with a blister on my thumb that was almost as big as another thumb.

Brain farts happen to the best of us.

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I’ve had the cherry fall on my leg while driving, a couple of times. It sucks when that happens.

Or have you ever tried to throw a butt out the window and it blows back in? That sucks too.

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So the male version is “eu de Hard Drive”?

Hmmm, that might be interesting.

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MysterEcks

Ahhh yes, then there is also the fun of forgetting to use a pair of pliers when soldering a wire to a trace and giving yourself some nice black tracks along your fingertips.

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I’ve melted my fingerprints off several times on a coal burning stove…you have to open the catch & I regularly forgot to use the little metal bar to do this, & it stings & when you look at your fingers - zap! very pink & no fingerprints!

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Darn you, TechChick, and your need to modify my lovely mental image of your thigh with “(close to the knee).”

TOO MUCH INFORMATION!

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I guess if you are going to commit a crime, this would be a good time :smiley:

Well, I wanted to be sure the men knew it wasn’t my upper inner thigh - tehe.

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My first year in college, I found another good way of losing all your fingerprints. Just pick up a tripod that your lab partner said he didn’t just use…dumbass. (But I’m not sure whether the epithet should refer to him or me.)

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Techchick you will heal, I think everyone has a brain fart now and then. I tried to remove the spark plug wire from a running go kart when I was young, I got knocked back about ten feet. The lightning photo is awesome!

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…was experienced by a guy my father knew. He went to fill his lawn tractor with gasoline one day…with a lit cigarette in his mouth.

KA-BOOM!

It was, however, the lastbrain fart he ever had…