26 Jul
2004
26 Jul
'04
11:16 a.m.
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, John Lawson wrote:
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.
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