Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Location Location
Posts: 26383

Eh, not really worthy of a post but when has that stopped me.

Anyway, I'm all moved in with my sister now. I have no furniture, however, so I'm living like a goddamned Bohemian (you should see my computer setup, it's a bunch of milk crates and a sleeping bag to sit on). Online access is better than I thought it would be because I live a block away from a computer center that I come to find is open all summer, 24/7, and will probably be hooking my machine up tonight maybe.

Anyway, this morning the power went out for 3/4s of the apartment. I live in a very old building, and our neighbors just moved out, hence we lost our power. Why did we lose our power just because the neighbors moved?

Well, Kate has always bragged about how low her bills are, never really in excess of 20 dollars a month. That's because, I come to learn, the only electricity she is recieving goes to the kitchen and the bathroom and that's it. All the other rooms are being juiced by the poor saps that live next door, at their expense. Some sort of wiring oversight or somesuch.

Well, the neighbors moved out today and of course their power was shut off because of it. Which means our power was shut off because of it.

However, a brief meeting in the apartment led to the decision that we will simply not complain to anybody about this, and on June 1st when we hope new people will be moving in, we'll get our power back and our bills will be low once more (and the new people will be wondering why they use so much damn electricity).

In the meantime however, Handy Dan has been on a bit of a wiring rampage. Now the apartment is covered in extension cords and wires and electrical crap as Dan attempts to run everything in the apartment from the two outlets in the kitchen. I'm somewhat frightened by this, but hey the smoke detector is right over my door. But you should see the place. It looks like Superman III in there. Add to this that we have basically no furniture but tons of junk (we are, in fact, making furniture out of junk), and it's a pretty wierd sight.

Anyway, that's my story.

In other news, Dan has decided that he no longer wants the iguana because pets that aren't carnivorous aren't worth the upkeep, so he is going feed it to the wolf when he moves.

Squish (the wolf) will be quite pleased I'm sure.

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Registered: Apr 2002
Location: sitting in the waiting room
Posts: 622

i'm offended that you could use such a racist term as "jerry" rigging...
don't you have an compassion for the jerry's of the world...you thoughtless pig

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Registered: Oct 2001
Location: toronto
Posts: 1612

I used to live in one of those!

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Registered: Aug 2001
Location: Hilbert Space
Posts: 35561

I would make sure that I had a smoke detector if I were you.

Try not to touch anything that is plugged in.

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Registered: May 2002
Location: No. California
Posts: 4175

I, too, am horribly offended that you used the term "Jerry" in such a way. The proper term is "Gerald-American."

Also, I suggest you get an old BSR turntable and strap a rat to the tonearm, and place a blob of peanut butter on the speed knob, setting it for 16 RPM (increasing the gear ratio). When the rat runs across the surface of any country music album of your choice, it will generate enough electricity to run a toaster and/or curling iron long enough to toast your hair or curl your bread.

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Registered: Nov 2000
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I thought it was "jury" rigging.
You damn weird people from those micro states mess up my engrish.

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Sedona, Arizona
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It is 'jury' but since Paint is a nigger (don't let the blonde hair throw you off, being a nigger has nothing to do with outward appearances) he wouldn't know the difference.

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Registered: Dec 2000
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Go to Costco and get one of those industrial generators - work like a charm!

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Registered: Sep 2001
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Wires getting too warm are what you have to look out for, electrical appliances should be safe, but if there's too much ampegga being drawn through too thinna cables, there could be the fire risk.

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Upstate NY
Posts: 10121

http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/ar...0204-00327.html

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Jury, in the sense we are discussing, is a nautical term meaning for temporary use, as in an emergency. Thus jury mast, jury anchor, jury rig. This is where we get the formerly hyphenated verb, to juryrig. American Heritage says the origin is unknown. Webster II speculates that it is probably from Old French ajurie, meaning relief. Webster II contains a lot of speculative etymologies, while AHD consciously chose to adhere to the more modern standard of requiring a written citation before accepting an etymology. Hence the discrepancy.

The phrase rigging a jury (in a court) is influenced by juryrig, probably arose in headline writing, and is more traditionally expressed as fixing a jury.

Jerrybuild, according to Webster II, is "probably from jury build." AHD has it as origin unknown. But the entry immediately preceding is Jerry, chiefly British slang for a German, especially a German soldier. So I suspect there might be some influence.

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Registered: Aug 2001
Location: Hilbert Space
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Originally posted by skalie
Wires getting too warm are what you have to look out for, electrical appliances should be safe, but if there's too much ampegga being drawn through too thinna cables, there could be the fire risk.

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Sedona, Arizona
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From the sounds of it, I would hazard a guess that the apartment does indeed have safety features installed in case of an electical overload.
They are called Fire Escapes.

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Registered: Sep 2001
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Quite right Smug, don't trust nothing, pardon my bad.

A badly earthed appliance needs the safety of a fuse/ breaker thingy to stop the electrical death affect.

Disregard anything I said previously in this thread if you are still alive.

Don't you have fuses in your mains plugs in limeyland?

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Registered: Aug 2001
Location: Hilbert Space
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From the sounds of it, I would hazard a guess that the apartment does indeed have safety features installed in case of an electical overload.
They are called Fire Escapes.

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Registered: Jul 2001
Location: Disgusting den of creepitude
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I got free cable for over a year that way. Same story, neighbors moved, and the new ones weren't very generous. I fact, they wanted to report me for cable theft, but a hardy tug on my coax and some plaster over the hole in the wall and they couldn't do shit.

Fuckin' greedy tattle-tails.

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Registered: Nov 2001
Location: Colorado
Posts: 441

best thing to do is tap into their phone jacks cuz they probably butt up against each other...get some alligator clips and make some 1-900-wet-titt calls and such..and wait until the ball-n-chain see's the phone bill...did that before its a hoot

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Registered: Jan 2002
Location: US
Posts: 3532

we says "jimmy" riggin' here, yeeha

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Posts: 10178

its nigger-rigging ie: nig-rig you morons.

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Registered: Jan 2002
Location: US
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I am offended.

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