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An e-mail from Monday...
Mar. 2nd, 2012 02:43 pmOn Monday, we had the A/V repair guy out to look at our largest conference room(s). We were having some freakish feedback issues.
Basically, the feedback was caused when the sound processor picked up a couple of random bits from a 'non-optimal power event' (which, I feel, would make a *great* term for premature ejactulation), and was broadcasting a surround sound stereo signal through one-half of the rooms PA speakers.
Whee.
He flashed and reprogrammed the processor, but when he was making sure all the inputs and outputs where inputting and outputting correctly, he found out something else. When the two rooms were joined and the VCR input (presently used for our cable box) were used, a local NPR station would come out of the speakers... in half the room... rather than the cable box sound.
After about 2 hours of wailing and gnashing, he found out that random buttons were punched on the Denon receiver, causing inputs to be completely messed up. This, too, was fixed.
So, of course... e-mail resulted:
Folks,
Good News: Our A/V Repair demigod has come and gone, and the sound weirdness has gone. Well, at least it hasn’t come back after nearly two hours of testing.
Neutral News: The main problem was an unspeakable act on the account of the Lords Of Entropy – A few random bits dropped from the programming causing the issues. So… NO ONE IS AT FAULT! Huzzah!!
However…
No, wait. I can’t go there.
Since I have been ordered by [Boss] to… well… not point fingers and threaten/yell at anyone, I won’t. I will take deep, cleansing breaths and I will think happy Unicorn thoughts…..
(Click here to see the picture attached to the e-mail. Worksafe, although other art by Mr. Jackson is most assuredly not. You have been warned.)
Ahhhh. I do feel better.
So, I would like to take this happy moment to ask you all to not mess with any buttons, dials, or wiring that is inside the closets of the Boulder rooms. The unicorns will thank you.
In closing, I would like to go back a bit to a conversation the A/V dude and I had before he started working.
A/V DUDE: "Well, usually something like this doesn't just happen. Usually, something get programmed, or someone just changes inputs at random. Is there anyone here who would do that?"
ME: [eyeroll] "This is a building that is filled, quite literally, with engineers from nearly every stripe and discipline. Yes, we even have a couple of folks with civil engineering degrees. It's a f***ing miracle that I don't come in every morning and find cyborg mice created from left-over cable modems running around dragging CAT5 from place to place."
A/V DUDE: "Ah. I feel ya."
-DH
Basically, the feedback was caused when the sound processor picked up a couple of random bits from a 'non-optimal power event' (which, I feel, would make a *great* term for premature ejactulation), and was broadcasting a surround sound stereo signal through one-half of the rooms PA speakers.
Whee.
He flashed and reprogrammed the processor, but when he was making sure all the inputs and outputs where inputting and outputting correctly, he found out something else. When the two rooms were joined and the VCR input (presently used for our cable box) were used, a local NPR station would come out of the speakers... in half the room... rather than the cable box sound.
After about 2 hours of wailing and gnashing, he found out that random buttons were punched on the Denon receiver, causing inputs to be completely messed up. This, too, was fixed.
So, of course... e-mail resulted:
Folks,
Good News: Our A/V Repair demigod has come and gone, and the sound weirdness has gone. Well, at least it hasn’t come back after nearly two hours of testing.
Neutral News: The main problem was an unspeakable act on the account of the Lords Of Entropy – A few random bits dropped from the programming causing the issues. So… NO ONE IS AT FAULT! Huzzah!!
However…
No, wait. I can’t go there.
Since I have been ordered by [Boss] to… well… not point fingers and threaten/yell at anyone, I won’t. I will take deep, cleansing breaths and I will think happy Unicorn thoughts…..
(Click here to see the picture attached to the e-mail. Worksafe, although other art by Mr. Jackson is most assuredly not. You have been warned.)
Ahhhh. I do feel better.
So, I would like to take this happy moment to ask you all to not mess with any buttons, dials, or wiring that is inside the closets of the Boulder rooms. The unicorns will thank you.
In closing, I would like to go back a bit to a conversation the A/V dude and I had before he started working.
A/V DUDE: "Well, usually something like this doesn't just happen. Usually, something get programmed, or someone just changes inputs at random. Is there anyone here who would do that?"
ME: [eyeroll] "This is a building that is filled, quite literally, with engineers from nearly every stripe and discipline. Yes, we even have a couple of folks with civil engineering degrees. It's a f***ing miracle that I don't come in every morning and find cyborg mice created from left-over cable modems running around dragging CAT5 from place to place."
A/V DUDE: "Ah. I feel ya."
-DH
