BOOM! (Excessive expletives within)
Sep. 5th, 2010 09:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lady_t_220Jesus FUCKING CHRIST. My fucking monitor literally just fucking EXPLODED.
Like as in went BOOM YOU BITCHES, HAVE A HUGE PLUME OF FUCKING SMOKE.
Genuinely thought it was going to catch fire. Screamed like a girl.
Christ...
JR's lent me the emergency replacement. It's hugenormous and old and a little bit... blurry. (Though that may be because I need to sit about 3' away from it and my nose is kind of squinched right against it because it's too big for the desk.) It's kind of giving me a headache to be honest. I'd dick about with the settings but I know I've got to replace it REALLY soon because the colour's shit-tastic as all get-out. And kind of slightly purple over the right side.
So I'm going to go over... somewhere else and try to stop jittering. Because did I ever mention that I'm pathetic and nervy when shit EXPLODES FOR NO REASON?
Give me a controlled detonation and I'm there. Electrical shorts though, scare the bejeezus outta' me.
Like as in went BOOM YOU BITCHES, HAVE A HUGE PLUME OF FUCKING SMOKE.
Genuinely thought it was going to catch fire. Screamed like a girl.
Christ...
JR's lent me the emergency replacement. It's hugenormous and old and a little bit... blurry. (Though that may be because I need to sit about 3' away from it and my nose is kind of squinched right against it because it's too big for the desk.) It's kind of giving me a headache to be honest. I'd dick about with the settings but I know I've got to replace it REALLY soon because the colour's shit-tastic as all get-out. And kind of slightly purple over the right side.
So I'm going to go over... somewhere else and try to stop jittering. Because did I ever mention that I'm pathetic and nervy when shit EXPLODES FOR NO REASON?
Give me a controlled detonation and I'm there. Electrical shorts though, scare the bejeezus outta' me.
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Date: 2010-09-05 08:29 pm (UTC)Any freaking idea HOW or WHY it happened?
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Date: 2010-09-05 08:57 pm (UTC)I know it'd been a little bit odd a few times before- it's flicked on and off for a half a second before now- but I certainly wasn't expecting a full-scale fry-up with a huge cloud of smoke.
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Date: 2010-09-05 10:49 pm (UTC)failbookfacebook at the time.no subject
Date: 2010-09-06 12:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-06 06:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-06 12:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-06 06:55 am (UTC)*headdesk*
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Date: 2010-09-06 12:39 am (UTC)'cause of it was a CRT, I've always wondered why that doesn't happen MORE OFTEN.
It's a frikkin particle-beam gun held inside a fragile little vacuum tube, after all. Whenever the seal around the electron-gun fails & leaks air, one of two things happen:
1) if it's off, the thing implodes with a loud pop, or
2) if it's on, the tube implodes with a loud pop and there's a split-second LIGHTNING BOLT generated inside the monitor casing between the e-gun and the phosphor-screen as air hits the electron beam, facilitating a microsecond electrical arc right before the electron-gun shorts itself due to oxygen contamination.
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Date: 2010-09-06 06:56 am (UTC)CRT. I feel so comforted.
*hides under the chair*