26 Jul
2004
26 Jul
'04
11:28 a.m.
Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, John Lawson wrote:
They do... They don't trust in computers, we do. :)
Attracted by something, a stream of
medium-sized red ants were ascending
the power cord and swarming into the fan grilles on the power supply -
turning it on had blown sufficient quantities of them into the HV side to
cause hymenopterous formicidae ionization and subsequent zapping of
circuits not engineered to tolerate 220V 50Htz - namely the damn
power-contoller / standby / 'sleep' chips...
What stupid fucking creatures. Good thing too. If they actually had any
sort of intelligence they could take over the world.