The Tale of Avish and the Electric Uncle

[anavish]

Remember the time I debugged my toilet? Well, today me and my uncle remote-debugged the electric system in my house. I'll spare the details, but the bottom line is my computer is back up again and order is restored. No more flashing lightbulbs and random power offs, no sir. This alone is worth the wound I got from thrusting the screwdriver into my

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[avgboojie]

Ooh! You da man!

[talash]

Well, today me and my uncle remote-debugged the electric system in my house.

you're da man.

the wound I got from thrusting the screwdriver into my ribs when I accidentally short-circuited the entire house (don't look at me like this, there were sparks and all, it was real spooky!).

didn't you, um, get the fuse out prior to fixing stuff?

And now I also know how to fix one very specific type of electric malfunction, in case it happens again.

so, can you tell us more technical details about that malfunction?

[anavish]

I guess I could, but that would be boring. After some remote inspection we found that a piece of plastic connecting several wires had mysteriously melted around them, and the wires had to be rewired to a new piece of plastic which then had to be screwed tightly around them.
The heroic bit is that I performed this while standing on a chair in the dark and stopping every half a minute to press a key on my cell phone so the tiny light would go back on.

[talash]

One of my strange "perversities" is that all sorts of technical details about stuff which are supposed to be boring are actually quite interesting to me, but too many people assume they would be too boring to tell about-- and this could be pretty much anything-- be it the morphological structure of languages, electrical circuits, the operation of computer networks or the details about the latest bug you've got debugged. What disturbs me more is the "why the hell this should interest me" attitude of far too many people which then prompts the "oh well, it's probablyy too boring to tell about" bit.

The heroic bit is that I performed this while standing on a chair in the dark and stopping every half a minute to press a key on my cell phone so the tiny light would go back on.Any special reason for that? I mean, was it so critical that it couldn't have been done over the weekend or something when there's light and stuff? and what about taking the fuse out? It's not that I know much about fixing electric circuitry, but when I have it's a

[talash]

but when I have it's a rule of thumb for me.

when I have to of course.

[just_pixel]

I want an Electric Uncle too :)

Do they come in black n' silver ?

[anavish]

Only if they're really bad at it.