There’s something oddly beautiful about worn, scuffed, well used old tools… this multimeter is a little modern to illustrate it well, but it’s getting there.

Wait, I can do better

Months ago, this road that serves as the only access to a large gas station and a warehouse park was inexplicably unpaved.

This is it in rare form: not flooded. There are drains in the middle of it but they stand six inches above the road surface. Sorry, you didn’t need that oil pan, did you?
I’m blaming this one on the Bermuda Triangle.

I bought an iMax B6AC battery charger and it turns out to be a “clone” – a fake!

I’ve read that the fakes tended to have massive calibration problems, leading to defective cell balancing, but…. I got lucky. They all match to within .004 volt.

Excellent?

I’m still not using this charger at high power levels since thermal management is questionable at best, but it works…

You know you’re the first one to vacuum around the news computers in a while when you start vacuuming up entire bowls worth of petrified dropped breakfast cereal and end up with…..

How many…. years? Decades? Has this even been lost?

My composure has left the building for the remainder of the day.

Thanks, HP*, we really didn’t need that awful unnecessary number of choices should we need a replacement or larger power supply on your workstation computers.

Let’s take a closer look:

Half the motherboard is power converters with questionable thermal management. Your drives are being powered by the motherboard. Dafuq?!

If that wasn’t strange enough, note “P2” there.

“power comm”

Go. Fuck. Yourselves.

* I am not even sure anymore if it’s actually Hewlett-Packard or just someone who licensed the “hp” trade dress. Even Compaq was never this hilariously dedicated at forcing vendor lock in. Hell, this is even worse than Dell with their power supplies that have nonstandard plugs and housings shaped like a Lego brick unsticker. At least those actually, you know, supplied the power. Holy shit on a stick.

I wonder if they’ll reply…. or, *gasp* take my suggestion?

Well that decades old mystery is solved: why your damn IsoTip battery is always shot.

A replacement is available from Amazon and PartsExpress for $17. Unfortunately the dumb charger will eventually kill it. If I buy one of these I’m stripping out the charger guts and wiring it to a smart charger that stops when the battery is full.

Pure unadulterated dicksnot.

This shall be etched on your tombstone after you kill yourself driving like this.

Not even your given name. Just “pure unadulterated dicksnot”.

Wankstain.

From 1982. The letters were clearly hand set from a decal/transfer sheet for typesetting and aren’t exactly aligned right.

It’s perfect. Everything here is perfect.

you just went full potato boost

never go full potato boost