In other news RIP Ray Bradbury...
Will be sorely missed.
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I saved someone's life once with a hacked together defibrillator.
It's odd, I really thought something would have burnt out between the mains socket, the ethernet patch plate and the computer at the other end the first time anyone touched the chassis.
It's the first aider, I feel sorry for. If she hadn't lent on the chassis when she tried to administer CPR, the boss would have stayed dead and she would have stayed alive.
One of my staff got chocked on an almond once (true story). He came out of his cube flailing his arms and making funny faces. I Heimliched him. I put my arms around his fatty, sweaty developer belly and saved him . The almond came out and so did some puke. It was awful.
About two years later I fired him. I should have let him choke.