Shietons are sub-atomic particles of bad luck that streak around the universe at hundreds of thousands of miles an hour. Like alpha particles gamma rays, shiteons can pass through the Earth and everything on it with very little influence. Unlike alpha particles gamma rays, shiteons tend to accumulate in vast clouds, millions of miles across. You will notice if the Earth passes through a shiteon cloud because everything will go wrong, usually you’ll have a spot of bad luck, then you’ll have a couple of days where everything breaks and all your efforts to fix things only make things worse. Then, seemingly inexplicably, everything comes right again. The remote starts working, the cat comes back, you find your chequebook. This is the Earth passing out of the shiteon cloud again.
The best identified strategy for dealing with a shiteon storm is “perseverance”. This is mid way between trying and giving up. Trying too hard to fix your situation only exposes more activities to possible shiteon strikes and usually exacerbates the situation. Giving up just lets entropy take over and you end up with an unholy mess to dig yourself out of after the “shite-storm”. Perseverance, continually looking for small, correct things to do, and doing them, is by far the most successful approach under “shite” conditions.
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*prints out and attaches to fridge door*
That’s weird - our remote broke yesterday. I was convinced it was the tellybox that was broken so I rebooted it. It still didn’t work. I then used it from the front panel and it was fine. The remote still didn’t work.
I decided to buy new batteries for the remote.
But then it started working again, and has done so ever since.
Yup… definitely a shieton field.
Yep, yesterday morning the car’s oil light wouldn’t go out so I had to cycle in and I’d left my main bike in town at the weekend so I had to go on my spare bike that had no lights and - it turns out - no front brake… and my Palm was busted… By evening I’d fixed and retrieved the bikes and went to judge whether to fix the car or just replace it and it just magically fixed itself, so today I drove in like I always used to and my replacement Palm had arrived…
Don’t break the screen.
Hmmm, bizarre indeed. A couple of days ago Bronwen told me that the iron wasn’t working (yeah, like I’d ever find out on my own), and also that Alice’s torch wasn’t working.
Got round to look at them this evening. Plugged the iron in - it worked (mental note: it gets hot very quickly); switched on Alice’s torch - it worked.
Still, the trains were shit today :)
And I spend the day trying to find a “pointer problem” that turned out to be a bug in the debug code designed to detect pointer problems…
Anyway, I thought Alpha particles were so big and heavy that you can stop them with a piece of thin card?
I didn’t say alpha particles… did someone say alpha particles…?
damn shiteons
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