=＾● ⋏ ●＾=

Something I made while dealing with my own stuff and hoping drawing this would pick me up somehow. Maybe it worked.

From Cork who got limericks

Who liked to compose limericks

But he failed at the sport

and when i see

this tumblr post

it gives me glee

i think real hard

for words to pick

so i can fail

Whose [body part] was [special case].

When [event] would occur,

It would cause [him or her]

Though you can't make fertile what's fallow

Yet still we keep your saints day hallowed

The patron of the sweet yet shallow

Of burning embers soothed like aloe

O, pure and bright as rendered tallow

They are literally particle accelerators that you point at your face.

And for eighty years, Americans' favorite thing to do was turn them on and stare at them for hours.

If you overcharge them, they emit gamma radiation.

Servicing them is like disarming a bomb -- their capacitors are enormous and are usually charged to hundreds or thousands of volts, and most of them have no bleed system that drains that charge, meaning that they can still be dangerous months or years after the last time they were powered up. A discharge can not only electrocute you, it can cause tools to melt or explode.

Back when, I worked at a small whitebox pc manufacturer. One day, a service tech brought back an older, gigantic (30 inch or so) AutoCAD monitor from a service call. The customer said "Made me feel nauseous"

So, we put it on the bench and fired it up. You immediately felt the hair on your body stand up, and my co worker put his hand up close to turn the power off, and his hand and forearm started spasming - I yanked the power cord from the wall as the tingle I was feeling began to feel hot.