not a rant? wtf?

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

i am blessed with a certain amount of "techsupport psychic energy's" and i had this episode last week and thought i'd share.
xposted from my journal.

So i was walking through the hospital yesterday on my way to fix something on the sixth floor and i was walking past a nursing station a unit secretary asked "hello, are you here to fix this thing?"
"well not really but what seems to be the problem?"
"I'm not sure, i went to get the printouts off of the printer and when i turned back it was shut down. now it wont start back up."
i went up to the counter, on the public side not the nurse side. this is important to note because from this position i could only see the back of the computer and the back of the monitor, nothing else. under normal circumstances this particular station is not in my "zone" of coverage so i'm not very familiar with it's specific setup
i said "well that's odd, is there a light on the monitor?" (pointing to monitor)
"Nope."
"hrm... is there a light on here?"(pointing to computer*)
"nope."
(now i step back, put my fingers to my temples, and look skyward)
"okay... i'm going to say... the problem is... when you turned and swiveled your chair around to get the printouts from the printer your foot accidentally hit a button on a power strip which turned has turned off your computers. Lets see if i'm right!"

with that i walked around the corner and behind the counter. walking up to the secretary's pc i see that against the wall there is a power strip with one plug going to the wall and two plugs snaking under the counter. i lean down, pick it up, look at it, flip the switch on the power strip and everything turns on.

"hot DAMN i'm so good i suprise even myself sometimes! and i didn't even know you were using a power strip under there!"
"oh god... was that it??"
"yup!"

Valis
*computer in this case is actually a thinclient neoware device.
**for my next trick i'll be pulling my hard drive out of my pants.

Comments

[thebabynancy.livejournal.com]

LOL!

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

:)

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

**for my next trick i'll be pulling my hard drive out of my pants.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

of course we need photographic evidence of this trick... ;)

[asbrand.livejournal.com]

'Tis better than him pulling a floppy drive outta his pants!

*evil grin*



-Az

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

*giggling wildly*

~kitten

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

hard drives are more easily mounted

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

lol ;)

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

what can i say, i'm very easily amused. VERY amused by the now-lack of rum in my household.... *grins*

[honig.livejournal.com]

Its one of those 1.8" models...

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

yer KILLING me here!!!!!! my kid has come out twice and said "are you ok???"

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

oh please... i wish...

[honig.livejournal.com]

I was trying to give you a little credit...

Must be one of these .85 inch deals.... (http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=2110)

[canray.livejournal.com]

Tech Support: We Have Telepathetic Powers!

[jecook]

*ponders changing the community profile to add that*

[canray.livejournal.com]

Go right ahead. The Telepathetic Powers came from a Pinball Machine.

Elvira.

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

we can't let that get out tho ;)

[canray.livejournal.com]

Sure we can. Come on, don't tell me you can't predict the Pathetic coming a mile away?

[ravan.livejournal.com]

"Is that a hard disk in your pocket, or are ya just glad to see me?"

[merlin-t-wizard.livejournal.com]

Valis, that's the twin powers of "observation" and "experience". Quite a powerful combination (when used properly). :)

[ptstech.livejournal.com]

"Hey Rock - watch me pull a hard drive out of my pants!"

"Not again! That trick NEVER works!"

(mangled Rocky & Bullwinkle show)

[kait-the-great.livejournal.com]

Nice! I solved many a "dead monitor" in the labs by crawling under, plugging back in to the strips *secured upside down to the bottom of the desk* and then putting the slack out of the way of swinging feet.

Ok, *my* version is totally off-tech-topic.

I'm taking $random_elective this term and the way my brain worked and problem solved totally blew my classmates away. Just little things that showed I was using the math/scientific/analytic/whatever side.

Then there was a party at someone's house. They'd just moved in and were having some problems with water leaking, so when the hostess saw yet another puddle in the middle of her kitchen floor she looked like she was going to cry.

After we all looked up and ruled out water leaking from above, I took in the kitchen layout (I tried an ascii map but it wasn't worth it):
it was very narrow, and the sink was on the opposite side as the stove. The only towels were hanging from the oven door.

I laughed. I couldn't stop laughing as I choked out that they were dripping water on the floor while turning around to dry their hands after washing up in the sink. That's why it was randomly timed but always in the same spot.

I wouldn't normally feel so clever but everyone was impressed, and who doesn't like having their ego stroked?

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

lol, nice!