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Dead Power Source and Delays

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As my power source died last week and Vort still hasn't been able to track me down a new one in the organizational nightmare that is our computer part heap, I have been without access to my e-mail for a couple of days. I've got the laptop up and running to handle things in the meantime, but I apologize for any delays. It is possible that some exams and/or certs are sitting on my currently inaccessible harddrive, and these won't be able to be processed until I track that power source down. If you're really eager, feel free to resubmit your exam/files, with a note letting me know it's the second time so I don't get all confused when I go back to my old PC.

Oh, and since the laptop has an American keyboard, which I've forgotten how to use, please excuse any inversions of y and z and punctuation errors that will undoubtedly occur. Not that there'll be a huge difference from my normal typing, but ah well. :P

Thank you for your patience, and I'm very sorry about the inconvenience!
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What do you mean "organizational nightmare"?! :P
I *told* you: LEFTmost heap is the PSU heap. THAT simple. :P
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But which is the leftmost heap when they're piled all about the room in a rectangular shape? :P
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Well, Admiral, if we assume that the door to the room is the abitrary point from which Commodore Vortagh is standing, and we place a hypothetical plane over the floor or the room with the origin at the door and Y-axis running through the center of the door, and we assign each pile a set of coordinates based on the center of the pile as seen from above, then we SHOULD be able to compare the coordinates of each pile and pick the one with the lowest X value, thus giving us the leftmost pile. :P

Voila. :P

EDIT: Oh, btw, Vortagh, I want to see a picture of the room in which these piles are kept. :)
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Post by Zwibble »

Good idea, La Forge, except I think the amount of parts is so great that they've reached some sort of a critical mass and have distorted space-time to open up a few more dimensions. At any rate, something happens to the cables overnight to make them turn from neatly-ordered coils to nightmare snarls with knots in there that would seem to be impossible in our humble 4D world (yes, I'm leaving out all those 16 or whatever the latest guess is dimensions that are all curled up too small for us to see - so sue me. :P)

And, La Forge, even if we stay very literal here and don't go into a discourse about the myriad dimensions which are home to the parts, they still extend across pretty much every room in our house (with the exception of the bathroom because I braught those parts down cellar for fear they'd distort things there and vanish my toothbrush or run off with the tweezers.)

At any rate, whatever Vort says, the leftmost heap of heaps in this part of the room is mostly PSUs, but there are a lot of other heaps he could mean by leftmost, and some of them are junk and some of them are likely hexed and I can't tell the difference. Well, except for the one that's opened and has all brown stains inside - I know that one's junk. That is, I assume it is, anyway - since we're still hanging on to it it must have some sort of value. Maybe sentimental value - was that the PSU that was in your PC when we first spoke, Vort? That would probably explain why it self-destructed, anyway. :P
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No, THAT is the pile of "to be sent to the electro-trash" :P
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Ah, I will send you my melted PSU... we don't have electro-trash collection. We have to take it down to the hazardous materials dump ourselves... :P
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Where in my sentence did you find the word "collection"? :P
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Zwibble: Heh, I see. Perhaps we could use these parts to create warp drive by bending the space-time around a small vehicle. Whadda think? :P

Vortagh: Wait, you *mean* you're going to *keep* the borked PSUs? :P

And yes, I still want to see a picture of whatever room has the most stuff/junk in it. :P
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