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UtterlyBoring.com is produced by Jake Ortman (e-mail, resume), a 33-year-old dad, percussionist, sysadmin, Web developer, IT consultant and jack-of-all-trades geek, living in Bend, Oregon. He created this so that his expensive journalism and technology degree isn't getting totally wasted. In addition to editing this site in his free time, he is the service manager at Weston Technologies. He has LinkedIn and Facebook profiles if you're trying to stalk him. He will not be posting on Twitter.
Opinions and comments on this site are the opinions of the author, not the author's employer, family, friends or pets. This site is powered by Movable Type and is hosted by orty.com. Since December 1st, 2002, there have been 6463 entries. Visitors to this blog have posted 21009 comments. If you're reading this, you have too much time on your hands. |
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Does Electricity Travel Through Toilet Paper?When I was in high school, my house was TPed a couple of times, but never quite to this extent:   These pictures were sent to me by Barney. He received them from somebody who lives on Delaware Avenue here in Bend, saying they saw this on the 900 block. My guess it's been there for a day or two. Why? Because on Saturday it was homecoming for Summit High School, and the Deleware block is in Summit HS territory. If a TP job like that was going to happen, it was going to happen then, and it was probably done Saturday night. It'll probably be like that until it snows, because I know there's no way in hell I'd try to get that toilet paper off the power lines. Which brings up another question: How conductive of power is toilet paper? A great deal of that toilet paper is running across those power lines. I know that's something they don't want to just hose off. Personally, I'd let nature take care of it, and just live with the new decorations for a while. 11 CommentsJesse Thompson said on 10/11/04 @ 06:52 PM:As long as it hasn't rained/snowed *heavily*, it would be perfectly safe to tug at the toilet paper on the power lines to make it break and fall down.. then hose off the rest of the house. :P Angie said on 10/11/04 @ 08:25 PM: Wow! Very impressive!! Jake said on 10/11/04 @ 10:30 PM: test Jake said on 10/11/04 @ 10:31 PM: test 2 after rebuild Jake said on 10/11/04 @ 10:54 PM: test 3 Jesse Thompson said on 10/11/04 @ 11:52 PM: What are you testing? Are you spamming me you great goon? Yes I subscribed to the comment thread, lol ;) Neil T. said on 10/12/04 @ 04:44 AM: Would you mind adding bloglines.com to your list of permitted hosts to view images on here? Cool photos anyway. Toad said on 10/12/04 @ 06:13 AM: Most likely the TP is strung on telephone lines or local cable. Most electrical lines attach near the top of the pole. Perhaps this area has underground service. Believe me, if there was an electrical "problem" with this particular incident, the party would have been over quickly. Jake said on 10/12/04 @ 07:08 AM: Ignore my above tests, folks. Trying to get MT Notifier configured properly. Neil, I'll make sure bloglines is allowed to view the images. Thanks! johan said on 10/27/04 @ 11:13 AM: I am (also) trying to implement notifier and i see that you have the subscribe checkbox in your comment area. Where have you put it. In the listing template or in the mtcommentfield function... I am lost here... Can you help? Johan Jake said on 10/27/04 @ 11:18 AM: I have a custom, hacked to pieces template, and don't use the mtcommentfield function that is in the default mt3.0 templates. Post a comment |
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