{"id":2590,"date":"2008-01-13T19:49:18","date_gmt":"2008-01-13T19:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/01\/13\/2007-darwin-awards-and-other-m\/"},"modified":"2008-01-13T19:49:18","modified_gmt":"2008-01-13T19:49:18","slug":"2007-darwin-awards-and-other-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/13\/2007-darwin-awards-and-other-m\/","title":{"rendered":"2007 Darwin Awards, and other matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2007 Darwin Awards are out, and can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/darwinawards.com\/darwin\/darwin2007.html\">here.<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/afarensis\/2008\/01\/13\/2007_darwin_awards_are_out\/\">[hat tip Afarensis!]<\/a>I have no comment, except that I&#8217;m glad I&#8217;m not on them this year.  And believe me, it was a close call&#8230;.  Especially after what happened last night.<!--more-->Remember the <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/01\/carnivalia_and_other_matters.php\">kitchen?<\/a>   Well, this weekend, it was electrical wire rewiring time.I keep asking myself the following questions.1) How often can you check that a circuit is dead, and have it not be dead?2) How is it that a human can survive a shock from household current (several times in one afternoon) but the same exact current melts metal tools (in the same exact afternoon)?3) OK, so grounding is important, but how is it that mere failure to ground your temporary circuit causes the furnace to &#8220;work&#8221; only while the clothes dryer is operating?????4) Speaking of the furnace, what are those yellow and orange sparks coming out of the furnace whenever I turn on the dryer?5) And what is that <em>SMELL????<\/em>6) Why do professional, trained electricians get paid so much?  Oh, never mind, I guess I know the answer to that one&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2007 Darwin Awards are out, and can be found here. [hat tip Afarensis!]I have no comment, except that I&#8217;m glad I&#8217;m not on them this year. And believe me, it was a close call&#8230;. Especially after what happened last night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[151],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-FM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}