Calculator of the damned!
I came home tonight and heard, once I'd made it in the door and into the kitchen, a high pitched shrill, constant tone. I tracked it through the house (which wasn't easy, given that my head is a bit congested today) and finally realized (after checking all of the smoke detectors) that it was coming from the computer room. PD's been having some problems with his computer, so at first I thought it was his machine. Then I realized it was coming from near my computer. I couldn't localize it at first, and fiddled with some speaker knobs and such before I realized it was coming from a cheap calculator that CVS sent me a while back for getting my prescriptions filled there. It was emitting a piercing steady tone despite the fact that, as far as I could tell, the calculator wasn't even on.
Not having any attachment to this thing at all, nor any real need for it, I opened up the back cover and tried to take out the battery. I couldn't really access it entirely, and once the thing was in my hands the tone was really loud, so I managed to slide the battery a little bit out of the metal casing holding it in place, and the shrill noise stopped.
Until about an hour later, when I heard a deedle deedle deedle boop boop! noise. Deedle deedle deedle boop boop! Deedle deedle deedle boop boop! Deedle deedle deedle boop boop! I was in the other room again, so I come into the study, and the damned calculator, still turned off and with its battery not even completely connected, is making this noise. Deedle deedle deedle boop boop! I ended up prying at the battery with a pair of pliers, trying to get hold of the battery and get it to stop making this infernal noise. Deedle deedle deedle boop boop! The battery is more than halfway out now, and it's still going. Deedle deedle deedle boop boop! Finally, I manage to get hold of a tip of the battery and yank it out. Deedle deedle deedle boop boooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ..........
The noise finally stops, although I swear it continued after the battery was out of the thing for at least three to four seconds.
The thing is now sitting disemboweled on my desk, and I'm just waiting for it to start up again even though its battery is completely removed. And mind you, if it does, I'm stomping the stupid thing into oblivion.
Not having any attachment to this thing at all, nor any real need for it, I opened up the back cover and tried to take out the battery. I couldn't really access it entirely, and once the thing was in my hands the tone was really loud, so I managed to slide the battery a little bit out of the metal casing holding it in place, and the shrill noise stopped.
Until about an hour later, when I heard a deedle deedle deedle boop boop! noise. Deedle deedle deedle boop boop! Deedle deedle deedle boop boop! Deedle deedle deedle boop boop! I was in the other room again, so I come into the study, and the damned calculator, still turned off and with its battery not even completely connected, is making this noise. Deedle deedle deedle boop boop! I ended up prying at the battery with a pair of pliers, trying to get hold of the battery and get it to stop making this infernal noise. Deedle deedle deedle boop boop! The battery is more than halfway out now, and it's still going. Deedle deedle deedle boop boop! Finally, I manage to get hold of a tip of the battery and yank it out. Deedle deedle deedle boop boooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ..........
The noise finally stops, although I swear it continued after the battery was out of the thing for at least three to four seconds.
The thing is now sitting disemboweled on my desk, and I'm just waiting for it to start up again even though its battery is completely removed. And mind you, if it does, I'm stomping the stupid thing into oblivion.