{"id":411,"date":"2008-12-13T01:44:46","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T01:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/zombielapdance\/2008\/12\/13\/snow-and-electricity\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:24:13","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:24:13","slug":"snow-and-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/zombielapdance\/2008\/12\/13\/snow-and-electricity\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow and Electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before I get anywhere, don’t forget to enter the Zombie Lapdance picture contest<\/a>. You too could win neat stuff.<\/p>\n

I tweeted on facebook awhile ago about my laptop powersupply freaking out, and you wouldn’t believe the response I got. Either people offered me the use of their powersupplies (which was helpful and kind, but not very practical in the case of folks living out of state), or they heckled me about how their Mac powersupplies never gave them any trouble.<\/p>\n

Really, any time I had trouble with the powersupply, it was only the matter of a few minutes to fix. I now have a monstrous Frankenstein powersupply, with three major cord splices and parts from a couple different computers.
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\nBecause I made the cord splices with the longest possible lengths, I now have a laptop with the recharge reach of a vacuum cleaner.<\/p>\n

A slightly different sort of powersupply, is this internal boombox AC converter.
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\nI make it a point to collect these from old boomboxes. They’re frequently modular and easy to remove, and you never know when you might need 12v of DC power with a couple amps capacity.<\/p>\n

I spent about an hour finding where the loose connection was in this incredibly simple rectifier circuit. And when I soldered it closed, I had an instant endorphin reaction. <\/p>\n

Sometimes fixing things is its own biochemical reward.<\/p>\n

Speaking of biochemical rewards, on Tuesday night Austin had the first snowfall of the season.
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\nFrom about 11pm to 11:20pm there were giant thumb-sized flakes that fell lazily out of the black sky.
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\nYou can rest assured that I caught the best ones on my tongue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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