On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:04:28PM -0400, Andrew Hume wrote: > i am cleaning up my room and in a dusty corner, i found > > "the electrical properties of infants" > > Infants have long been known to grow into adults. > Recent experiments show they are also useful in > applications such as high power circuit breakers. > > sample text: > > The connections to the infant were secured by heavy duty alligator > clips. > (This method of connection was later discarded because, at above > about 17,000 volts, spasmodic vibrations in the infant's limbs caused > the clips > to be shaken off. .... Both these problems were eventually solved by > the use of spot-welded connections.) > > it reminded me of the recent discussion on computer rack power...
Echh. Spot welding would be messy, anyway. Funny how your perspective on this changes when you've been father to some of those infants terribles, and grabbed a key away before it was inserted in the electrical socket, remembering what happened to your kid brother when he did same. [I am sorry to report it did not make him noticeably brighter.] -- /*********************************************************************\ ** ** Joe Yao [email protected] - Joseph S. D. Yao ** \*********************************************************************/ _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
