Staticfree Blog 07 02 2005

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I have been dinnering for 4 hours, and 39 seconds. Before that, I was prowling the concrete wilderness.

Mon, 07 Feb 2005

STFU Button

G M GM /meat/ROC/ @ 20:16 on Mon, 2005-02-07

At Geekhaus, we have an electric stove that is very fond of producing smoke. Most likely, that's due to its age and general uncleanliness, but that's besides the point: it sets off our smoke detector frequently. Thankfully, our smoke detector has a cute little button (which we jovially entitled "STFU") that silences it for a short period of time. Alas, this is located on the detector itself, so it's often hard to reach.

So, what does a slightly intoxicated geek do at 2:00am? Run up to his room, rummage around for telephone wire, his Dremel and soldering iron and install a remote STFU button. It's mounted on the doorframe, right next to the stove for convenient silencing while cooking. And it is this reason, amongst many others, that I love living in this house.

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