Quote Originally Posted by TurnyBright
This exact thing happened to me last friday at work. EVERYTHING electronic I used malfunctioned while I was using it. Even the urinal broke, I flushed once and it just kept on flushing, I had to get the super to call a plumber.

The computer froze, the printer froze, the copy machine chewed all the paper, my headphones broke (the ipod didnt, though).

And I haven't thought about electric eels in years, theyre freakin awesome

Anyway, that was the most infuriating and frustrating day at work I have ever had, I can't imagine dealing with it all the time.
And most handheld electronics have no imagination

You might like to know that the curse works both ways.

In the late 50s I stated futzing around with electronics, (such as it was),
Got good at it and took a job repairing radios n tvs.
Long story, short.
I just had to "lay my hands" on the critters and half of them fired right up.
I'd run 'em for 48 hours, test 'em six ways from Sunday, and pronounce them healthy.
Client would take 'em home and they'd plotz!

Not good!

Got into computers in the late 70s,
Same deal. They would work just fine as soon as I touched them.
Had one client that called me once a month.
Got so, I just ran it for 2 or 3 days and gave it back to her.
It worked perfectly until 2 days before her next period.

Come to think of it, my X was a "jammer".
Could not wear a watch.
Well, as jewelry maybe, but they all, (15 or so that I know of), stopped in a day or two, for no detectable reason.

I'm a very cynical type. Don't believe in anything.
But, this unexplained effect, was, and is, uh, consistent.

Finally wised up and accepted it as the gift it is.

Went into data recovery.
Dead hard drives would spin-up one mo' time, jus' fo' me.
Just long enough to get a full back-up
(Dat's where I got dubbed Wizard.)

I have a good friend with your "gift". He was a great help to me in the 70s.
I'd build tiny circuitry with LEDs into jewelry.
Mark, (we called him Goofy, lovingly), was my quality control guy.
Any old lash-up would work just crackers for me, 24/7, so...

I'd hand my betas to Mark and watch them disintigrate before my eyes!
He wasn't rough, was not trying to break them. It was just his "gift".
Saved me plenty grief.
Any e-critter that passed the "Goofy" test, is probably still running today.

I'm not advocating, claiming, postulating anything.
And, would dearly love a logical explanation.
Anyone?!

"There are more things in heaven and earth, than are dream't of in your philosophies" - Brother Theodore (Stolen from W.S. I think)

Aloha, Gandalf the gifted

Wee Zard