Ghosts?

[wxgeek.livejournal.com]

$_call_center TRSHOOT
Name: $_NAME
PH#: $_PH
Issue: Customer can't surf.
Resolution: Customer complains of no RF. Customer states that house is haunted by three separate spirits; two kids and an older man; the kids are mostly mischevious, and chase her children around; however, the 800-lb man is intimidating. Customer suspects that the ghosts may be interfering with the RF. No signal in laundry room; nothing in kitchen; one bar in living area; $RF_tool score of 1 [ed.: out of ~50], high interference. Verified SQ&A; xferred to $field_tech_line.


Um.

Comments

[azurelunatic]

So, by coincidence the 800-lb ghost man inhabits that LARGE BULKY METAL REFRIGERATOR that the wireless is hiding behind, eh? Let's ditch it, it's possessed.

:D

[wxgeek.livejournal.com]

hee

[azurelunatic]

When you come down to it, it might as well be magic to them...

[wxgeek.livejournal.com]

Y'know, you're right, and it's kind of scary.

[azurelunatic]

I'm one of those wacky ones with a foot in both worlds, and I believe that curses and physical causes needn't be mutually exclusive. This is normally for those situations where in each case there's some physical or programmatic cause for malfunction ... and the pattern of malfunctions is interesting to my cleric side as well as my techie side.

Of course, some machines are just cursed with really, really bad users.

[wxgeek.livejournal.com]

"Hacker folklore that pays homage to ‘wizards’ and speaks of incantations and demons has too much psychological truthfulness about it to be entirely a joke."

-Eric S. Raymond

[canray.livejournal.com]

This one, I've had.

"The only thing we did was replace that fridge that's in front of the modem nook."

"Replaced... What kind of Fridge is it?"

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhh, it's a nice, expensive one!"

"Really... Expensive how?"

"It's made of stainless steel and..."

[azurelunatic]

Aha, so that story came from you. I knew I'd heard it in here.

[canray.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I just lucked out that it was an older person that I was talking to.

One that remembered AM Radio.

[wxgeek.livejournal.com]

Hey now! Not all of us have forgotten radio that isn't FM/XM/Sirius ;)