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Cake day: October 23rd, 2023

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  • When I was a kid our electricity got cut (yes we were poor). We found an outlet with power for some reason. Must’ve been wired to another unit in the 3 family home.

    So my moms boyfriend went out to the hardware store and made this cable. Then plugged in the working outlet to a nearby dead one and we got power again…

    I don’t remember how long we ran that but nothing exploded.

    If I recall he was from another country and they did this all the time across houses when someone lost power or hooking up gas power generators.






  • I’ve got a shitty 3ft cube Ottoman in my living room full of cables I’ll never need again…

    I’m talking about VGA, DVI, DVI/HDMI, VGA/DVI, coax, Component, composite, mini USB, micro USB, USB extention, 3.5m audio, 3.5 audio extention, digital optical, mini HDMI, HDMI and Ethernet.

    Last week my wife was redoing her desk and asked for a long micro USB for her calculator and extension cables for USB speakers.

    That box became a chest from a Zelda game when I dug in and pulled out the exact three cables she needed. 10ft micro USB, 6ft USB extension and 6ft 3.5 audio extension.