Burning Down The House
Last night at 1:35 am my wife awakened me saying, "What's that smell?" I wasn't particularly gassy last night, so I knew it wasn't me. There was also a beeping sound coming from my home office.
The odor was electrical ... like when something is shorting out and about to burst into flames. It turns out that my surge protector / power strip for my computer was so hot that I couldn't even touch it. I quickly unplugged it and removed it from the house.
Does anybody know what the hell is up with that? My house is for sale, but I don't want it to burn to the ground.
Fortunately my computer and its hard drive filled with my many unpublished novels was not harmed.
Is my fire insurance paid up? I better check on that. Hello ... State Farm...?
10:20 am "Love Will Tear Us Apart" Joy Division (Read Touching From A Distance by Deborah Curtis.)
1:20 pm "Eye" Smashing Pumpkins (From the Lost Highway soundtrack.)
The odor was electrical ... like when something is shorting out and about to burst into flames. It turns out that my surge protector / power strip for my computer was so hot that I couldn't even touch it. I quickly unplugged it and removed it from the house.
Does anybody know what the hell is up with that? My house is for sale, but I don't want it to burn to the ground.
Fortunately my computer and its hard drive filled with my many unpublished novels was not harmed.
Is my fire insurance paid up? I better check on that. Hello ... State Farm...?
10:20 am "Love Will Tear Us Apart" Joy Division (Read Touching From A Distance by Deborah Curtis.)
1:20 pm "Eye" Smashing Pumpkins (From the Lost Highway soundtrack.)
posted by Todd Nuke 'Em at 6:09 AM
44 Comments:
Cheap surge protector?
You know it's pretty hot this summer and electrical equipment gets hot enough on its own. Just look at that school that burned down last week. Keep your cables a little more ventalated and organized and this sort of thing shouldn't happen.
I'm glad you cought it in time, there are books on there I want published so I can read them.
Wow Todd thats a little scary. I had a similar expierence once when my daughter was 5 she put a grilled cheese sandwich in the vcr and left it turned on...smelled like burning garbage.
you couldn't even touch the damn thing it was so hot.
she (my daughter)blamed it on the cat.
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Dude, you should have your other unpublished novels burned on a CD and keep it at work. That way, you'll always have a copy in case something like that happens.
Wow, close one.
Yes, anything you put that much work into needs to be backed up. Buy yourself a 1GB USB drive and use that for your books.
I HATE THIS SONG...
Lol, just get a UPS, surge protectors don't really do much for sags, spikes, brownouts, and blackouts... From the sound of it that surge protector wouldn't have done anything for a surge!
If you want my expert advice i would snag a UPS (Uninteruptable Power Supply, not UPS Shipping... boo).
I'M A BLOGGER AND THATS OK....I SLEEP ALL NIGHT AND I WORK ALL DAY...
I have a UPS too darren. I actually got bored and made one out of a car battery... summers get boring, you know?
http://www.dansdata.com/diyups.htm
Similar to this darren. It's sweet. Ghetto UPS for sure.
FOR BEING TODD'S BLOG HE'S NOT ON HERE ALOT...
todd is in meetings with consultants all day today or i'm sure he'd be commenting on his blog :).
oooHHHH look who know so much. j/k man
i'm sure he will to. you all are helping him with not burning his house down;O)
well yes i knew that from todd. but that's beside the point, if you were a attentive radio from hell listener today you would have known too :)
it's all good, i miss the show a few days too. gotta sleep in, know what i'm sayin?
-zack
Fire Marshall Bill,
Are you suggesting that the area behind my desk is a tangle of messy wires and junk? Because it is!
i listen to radio form hell every once in a while. mostly i listen to cd's in the morning to wake my ass up.
what show did u miss?
Zack,
How much is a UPS?
Darren,
My power strip dates back to the era of my old 386 SX computer. Freaking ancient.
Zack,
Slurpee?
Well places like officemax and comp usa advertise anywhere from about $145 and up (for decent, nice ones.)
I'd let you ask Dale Schanzee all about UPS's, but beacuse of his recent booking in jail... he isn't available for advice. "Dammit Dale" - Hank Hill.
Slurpee!
-Zack
i used to have a 386 and an Ampaq 486, they were so fun to play with.
totally. todd tells me all the time of my geekdom, and by god i agree!
i wish it were cool to be un-cool.
:)
Zack,
You know...that power strip that burned up might actually date back to my Commodore 64 from 1989.
On that sucker 20 pages of a manuscript would fill up the whole file.
i actually got into computers by digging in our old basement and playing with Dale's commodore 64. I busted it, and swore i'd never touch a computer again.
Those damn ancient computers, ruining everybody's fun.
But yeah... a UPS is worth the money. Just dont make your own.
plus commodores look really badass. pimpest looking things ever... at least i think so.
thats such a bullshit commerical. saturns arnt safe. volvo and subaru anr the safest cars on the road. everyone knows that
nah. safest cars are those big-ass school buses where you can run people off the road.
ok modern cars...but volvos still rule
god i'm tired. was here for 14 hours yesterday and got here at 8 this morning...
i'm so tired, i've stopped capitalizing things.
so ... dale had a commodore 64? i bought mine at sears and i also bought a sears brand dot matrix printer. wrote part of my first novel on the sumbitch.
14 hours yesterday?
you are insane.
I'm being mauled by Artie Fufkin.
Ahhhh!!!!
its so bed time everyone
Woo! Commodore 64! I dig it! And i don't think todd is a real geek (other than the not capitalizing... cuz that's total computer person thing), i mean, todd gets up in the morning?
if he were a geek he would just be up rediculously late at night and drag through the day via the help of mountain dew or some other caffinated beverage.
it's all about staying up late playing counterstrike until 2am (or starcraft, diablo2, day of defeat) ... something uber-nerdy.
w00t.
It's all about the CS:S baby... It used to be Tribes for me, i was a machine at that
wow 54...55 coments!
ben
darren. CS source is good? I've heard mixed opinions on that one... i need to get it.
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