There are upsides to your work monitor being about to catch fire. I came in, turned on my system, then started wondering what electrical item was burning? Was someone soldering? This went on for about 45 minutes, then I noticed something white drift by. I focused in and saw smoke seeping out from the upper left hand corner of my monitor. I turned it off quickly, spent twenty minutes with supervisors going "It was smoking? Really? Wow, that corner's hot!" 2 hours later, I have a new monitor that's bigger and brighter than the one I had before. Neighbors are jealous.
Well, quite a lot of fuss. If I didn't know better, I'd think we were dangerous.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Connie Neil - Sep 22, 2014 9:04:28 am PDT #6730 of 30000
brillig
Steph L. - Sep 22, 2014 9:05:44 am PDT #6731 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Tim has an arcane system for his personal passwords that I *still* don't understand after all this time. (Except for his default password, which is a combination of the first 3 letters of 3 things from his past, like first dog, street he grew up on, high school mascot [NOTE: those are not the actual things], so if his dog was Fido, his street was Main St., and his high school mascot was a lemur [NOTE: also all untrue], the password would be "fidmailem.")
(Feel free to use "fidmailem" as your password.)
Ginger - Sep 22, 2014 9:07:16 am PDT #6732 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
There are upsides to your work monitor being about to catch fire.
What doesn't kill you gets you new hardware.
-t - Sep 22, 2014 9:11:50 am PDT #6733 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yikes, Connie! That doesn't seem like the optimal equipment replacement plan. Maybe it's cost-effective, what do I know?
amych - Sep 22, 2014 9:12:31 am PDT #6734 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Feel free to use "fidmailem" as your password.
I would, but "spikelust" is so perfect and unbreakable and not at all well known nor has it been around for a long time at all.
Connie Neil - Sep 22, 2014 9:15:19 am PDT #6735 of 30000
brillig
I'm trying not to think too hard about what I was breathing for that 45 minutes.
Connie Neil - Sep 22, 2014 9:17:07 am PDT #6736 of 30000
brillig
No one's guessing my passwords who isn't very familiar with my genealogy or the small villages of Southwestern Pennsylvania or the character names from fic I wrote four fandoms ago.
brenda m - Sep 22, 2014 9:22:14 am PDT #6737 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
My father's are insane. They'll be like the registration number from a boat he used to have. Which is secure but a royal pain with the frequency that he needs ad hoc tech support (mostly by my sister).
Tom Scola - Sep 22, 2014 9:25:54 am PDT #6738 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
My father's are insane.
I parsed this to mean that Brenda has two dads.
shrift - Sep 22, 2014 9:26:08 am PDT #6739 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
What doesn't kill you gets you new hardware.
I've had a power supply blow on computers I was upgrading a time or two. It's just as startling as the red screen of death, in that you don't know what you've done to bring it upon you but you know it's going to be bad.