Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Unixbigot@aus.social ("Kit Bashir") wrote:
“You know, it’ll work better when it’s plugged in?”
“Huh?”
“You got a bad connection on the positive wire, there”
“Nah—wait, yeah. Shit, how did you know?”
“Ghost multimeter”
“Yawhatnow?”
“I was in this doco bar last week…”
“A which bar? You do know words mean things?”
“No witch bars near here; this was a documentary bar. You know what a sports bar is?”
“Well, you wouldn’t find me in one but yeah”
“Doc bar shows science documentaries”
“Fuck off”
“Trust me, you’ll love it. Anyway there was this film of declassified 1950s nuclear tests. I always wondered how they got the data from all those instruments after the explosion”
“And?”
“Ghost oscilloscopes. Instrumentation on the astral plane with the probes made of consecrated silver, existing in both realms”
“Bullshit, Anyway your multimeter?”
“I Shifted one of mine, this ring is the probe. Lets me feel voltages within a meter or so”
“This rig can wait. You’re making me one, now”