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don’t piss on the electric fence

single-digit temps + thermal shirt + fleece = lightning shooting from my fingertips!

our office has a keypad entry system, and if you have any stored static while you are entering the code, and it just happens to discharge, you need to start over again. Oh, and the act of pressing the buttons is enough to recharge you, I guess. It took me 5 minutes to get into my office this morning!!

Once I got to my desk, I found that I have the power to possess my printer as well. I guess I hit the metal frame of my cubical while taking off my jacket, and the printer went nutty: it decided to feed 10 sheets of blank paper and then go into standby mode. Now, is this something that they built into the printer? “hmmm…if there is a sudden electrical shock, what should we make the printer do?”

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2 Responses to “don’t piss on the electric fence”

  1. rich Says:
    January 26th, 2004 at 3:29 pm

    I’ve had a problem like that before, I would have to hold on to something metal in order to use the keypad.

  2. mikey Says:
    January 27th, 2004 at 3:30 pm

    you’re like “Carpetman” from the “Civic Minded Five”.

    of course, that’s only funny if you’re a fan of The Tick…

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