Off topic fun

Friday Fun: Indestructible Nokia 3310

Know Your Meme: Indestructible Nokia 3310 https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/indestructible-nokia-3310 Indestructible Nokia 3310 is the nickname given to Nokia’s 3000 series mobile phones and customer review parodies poking fun at their durability and heavy weight. The Nokia 3310 mobile phone was released in the fourth quarter of 2000. It is considered one of the best selling phones of →

Friday Fun: USB is dangerous?

I saw an alarming sounding headline with worrying picture: Man Goes Up In Flames After Pulling Out USB Stick Without Safely Removing It First https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2021/05/06/man-goes-up-in-flames-after-pulling-out-usb-stick-without-safely-removing-it-fir “Authorities suspect the cause of the fire can be traced to Murphy previously pulling a USB stick out of his computer without safely removing it beforehand.” This was clearly parody →

Friday Fun: Speaker to mains power disaster adapters

This is an old recipe for a disaster from 1990′s. This converts NEMA mains connector to 1/4″ plug. Offers a nice set of possibilities for unexpected show disasters like electrocution or over kilowatt of constant 60 Hz bass line without an amplifier. It seems that some company really tried yo push this potentially extremely dangerous →