Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Documented Superpowers

People can do far stranger things than most folks would believe.  To me, this is normal.  I'm familiar with science and the way many things spread out in a bell curve.  I'm also familiar with Nature's tendency to treat DNA like the kitchen junk drawer.  A + B means the far ends of that bell curve contain some truly amazing junk.

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siliconshaman

Re: Yes...

siliconshaman

February 15 2012, 11:37:01 UTC 9 years ago

I took out the entire floor of an I.T division at work once... every single computer BSOD'ed in a sort of rolling wave.

It had been a rather stressful day.
ysabetwordsmith

Re: Yes...

ysabetwordsmith

February 15 2012, 19:46:53 UTC 9 years ago

The most I know of wiping out is a room full of computers, but I've done that repeatedly and in different installations. *ponder* Of course, that's also the most computers I've probably been around; I don't recall being in a whole floor packed with them.
siliconshaman

Re: Yes...

siliconshaman

February 15 2012, 19:56:51 UTC 9 years ago Edited:  February 15 2012, 19:58:35 UTC

It was one of these call-centre places and it was an open-plan design, so the entire floor was one room... and I was sitting next to the main network hub for the entire floor.

Although, I scared the frack out of my trainer when I got annoyed with the stupid buggy software we had to use, hissed "Die!" at my Pc and it promptly did.

Although, normally I have the opposite effect, machines just start working around me.
ysabetwordsmith

Re: Yes...

ysabetwordsmith

February 15 2012, 20:03:40 UTC 9 years ago

Dude, you have awesome powers.

I am better at "Die!" than "Work!" myself. Well, with hardware. I'm better at "Thrive!" than "Die!" with plants.
siliconshaman

Re: Yes...

siliconshaman

February 15 2012, 20:08:13 UTC 9 years ago

It's the reason I'm the Silicon.Shaman... I talk to dead machines!

Of course, it's also rather frustrating at times. I get asked to look at a computer because it's not working, boot it up ... and it works perfectly.

I hear "Well, it wasn't working just now!" so often.
ysabetwordsmith

Re: Yes...

ysabetwordsmith

February 15 2012, 22:20:26 UTC 9 years ago

Have you ever tried to bottle that? A technomage friend did something like that for me once, with a d6. I leave it 3 most of the time, but it can be turned up to a higher number if the hardware starts misbehaving.

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