February 4, 2012
Weekend Kontraptioneering Special Diatribe and Public Service Announcement:Dear amateur Brooklyn electricians… I’m going try to hold off from laying down the vicious, bitter and sharply abusive attack that I feel you deserve… for nearly popping all of my computers and light fixtures and any other 110V device I use and for causing sparks to shoot out of the breaker box… Yeah great work guys. PLEASE REMEMBER TO TIGHTEN ALL OF THE SCREWS ON ALL OF THE TERMINALS! If the wire is too thin for a particular terminal, THEN DON’T USE THAT FUCKING TERMINAL! (See far left screw and associated scorch marks) Nobody else can use it now, good job! Seems the intense heat from the years of arcing fused it. No problem though, the wire was so loose I could just sort of pull it out… And that wire was the neutral for the entire goddamn first floor of the building. Mark said “I can see it GLOWING!!” Yeah, NICE JOB GUYS! But seriously, maybe you ought to stick to your usual duty of spreading roofing tar before you kill 3 entire families and their babies and pets in a structure fire.  I saved your ass this time. I saw the lights flick and I KNEW exactly what was going on, and sure enough, there it was. I was the one that cleaned up after you. Keep your hands out of places they don’t belong. 

Weekend Kontraptioneering Special Diatribe and Public Service Announcement:
Dear amateur Brooklyn electricians…

I’m going try to hold off from laying down the vicious, bitter and sharply abusive attack that I feel you deserve… for nearly popping all of my computers and light fixtures and any other 110V device I use and for causing sparks to shoot out of the breaker box… Yeah great work guys. PLEASE REMEMBER TO TIGHTEN ALL OF THE SCREWS ON ALL OF THE TERMINALS! If the wire is too thin for a particular terminal, THEN DON’T USE THAT FUCKING TERMINAL! (See far left screw and associated scorch marks) Nobody else can use it now, good job! Seems the intense heat from the years of arcing fused it. No problem though, the wire was so loose I could just sort of pull it out… And that wire was the neutral for the entire goddamn first floor of the building. Mark said “I can see it GLOWING!!” Yeah, NICE JOB GUYS! But seriously, maybe you ought to stick to your usual duty of spreading roofing tar before you kill 3 entire families and their babies and pets in a structure fire.  I saved your ass this time. I saw the lights flick and I KNEW exactly what was going on, and sure enough, there it was. I was the one that cleaned up after you. Keep your hands out of places they don’t belong.