My office will be moving in the next few months. We’re heading to a much nicer place, more centrally located for our clients, easier to find and more publicly visible. The new office is a touch smaller, but we’re getting secondary space off site for an auxiliary location too, which will give us both storage and a place to hide and work on tight deadline projects.<\/p>\n
One thing I need to do for this is set up a map of the lights in the two locations, so that I can start testing a theory we’ve got. Y’see, it seems like most of the burnt out bulbs we have to deal with are located above wherever my desk happens to be.
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\nSeriously. When I was sitting at the desk in the southeast corner of the room, the lights there burnt out twice.<\/p>\n
When I was doing a lot of work at the server in the southwest corner, the light there burnt out.<\/p>\n
When we brought WorkKevin on board, I moved to the desk in the northwest corner. This morning the light above my desk was dark. Again. It’s the third time this fixture has needed a new bulb in two years.<\/p>\n
The guys claim that they’ve never had a light bulb burn out when I’m on vacation. Usually it’ll happen in the days just before I go on vacation, or within a few days after I get back.<\/p>\n
It could just be a fluke. It could be because I’ve been moving to wherever the bulbs are oldest or the wiring is the most flakey.<\/p>\n
But in the new office, I’m going to start tracking bulb outages. We’ll see if there’s a random distribution or if there’s a pattern.<\/p>\n
If there IS a pattern… I’ll just have to find some way to use my newfound powers for good, instead of evil!<\/p>\n
Man. That would be the LAMEST superpower ever.<\/p>\n
“Criminals beware! I, Blackout Man, shall.. um.. mildly inconvenience you with my amazing.. um.. Lightbulb blowing out. I’ll wait for you to stand on a really tippy chair to change the bulb, and then you’ll be sorry! Or you could just use a flashlight. Or a candle or something. Those infa-red goggles they have in spy movies would be really nifty, I suppose.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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