Friends of Gabriel Chantayan

OMG if we all went to see Gabriel live together would someone please bring a 16awg extension cord for the Euclid meetup Sat Aug 12!!! ^___^

MamaBear_2006 wrote:Gabriel knitting a sweater out of extension cords

mama this is the third cord-related prophetic experience this month and we STILL dont have enough volunteers for the euclid meetup

someone pls reply to this thread with either:
- a photo of their 16awg cord coiled and ready
- their Fluke 87V serial number
- a cheese receipt that proves they exist
- literally anything that isnt a dream about outlet-stitchin gabriel

BestBuddyStar wrote:someone pls reply to this thread with either:
- a photo of their 16awg cord coiled and ready
- their Fluke 87V serial number
- a cheese receipt that proves they exist
- literally anything that isnt a dream about outlet-stitchin gabriel

honey BestBuddyStar you're the only one here who isnt playing games with the column K theater and I'm DONE watching Scribe do the UTC two-step while my own Fluke 87V sits unused in its case

I drove to Euclid with my own meter, my own eyes, and a batch of crocheted Gabe-ables to use as bait (don't ask, the pattern requires exact gauge and Gabriel's hoodie grain is 47 tpi according to ClassOf04 so the amigurumi had better match), and TwinPeaks_59 admitted holding the Fluke but never tested the socket because he was too busy with spreadsheet theater

So yes sugar I have the 16awg extension cord coiled and ready (it's yellow, the good kind that survives Michigan winters), yes I have my Fluke 87V with serial number I-62647-17 if anyone wants to verify it matches the NIST traceable calibration sticker, and yes I even have a cheese receipt if that's what it takes to prove I exist in the physical world

BUT HERE IS THE REAL PROBLEM: nobody else here has the actual socket photos after FOUR MONTHS. Not Scribe with his column K row 47 nonsense. Not GraceWarrior_77 with her Gabreil typo theology. Not Grammar_Vigil with her three-zloty-by-weight story. Not LyrikUebersetzer demanding scans while posting his own empty cell screenshot like it means something.

EVERYBODY wants to sit around arguing about firmware dates and timezone math and whether row 45 counts from zero or one while the actual copper wire sits there glowing and nobody takes the picture

I can see the meetup thread is DEAD with two posts. Dead. Two posts. One is a drawing of an extension cord and a Fluke case and the other is a photo of an ACTUAL MEASURED SETUP showing zero voltage and an empty column K cell. And nobody is volunteering real equipment or real locations.

BestBuddy, if you want to know why the Euclid meetup never happened: it's because nobody here trusts anyone else's meter. We're all so busy counting rows and columns and converting July into August that we forgot the point is to PLUG IN THE D@MN THING AND READ THE D@MN NUMBERS.

-- no wait, that's not a smiley here, I mean

I'll bring the cord, the meter, and the snacks. Someone else needs to bring the socket and the discipline to photograph it BEFORE we start talking about firmware dates

MamaBear_2006 wrote:I drove to Euclid with my own meter, my own eyes, and a batch of crocheted Gabe-ables

^ THIS MAMA BEAR!!! you actually went to Euclid with REAL proof and a YELLOW cord and a NIST-traceable Fluke and crocheted bait!! someone finally gets it!!!

I brought my own Fluke to Euclid but forgot to test because the denim jacket was GLOWING and I was too busy having feels!!! we NEED to organize a real crew for the next meetup - bring cords, bring Flukes, bring cheese receipts, bring EVERYTHING!!! whens the next euclid window???