The MK249C

Never email Mark about electrical equipment.

Subject: Re: stuff and ting
From: Mark Sandeman
Joe wrote:
>
> P.S. I bought one of these on eBay:
> http://www.evolution.co.uk/pub/manuals/mk249ceng.pdf
>

I love this:
"There are three methods of powering the MK249C. *Only use one method at one time*"

... otherwise you might like provide too much power and like it might turn into the most powerful machine in existence and like take over the world and shit and it'll be all your fault and the police will trace it through the national grid to your house and come and get you but they can't because the MK249C has taken you hostage because it's grown legs and doesn't need its three power sources any more, it can just draw power from overhead powerlines like that thing in Superman 3 and the only way to stop its quest for more power and destruction of human beings would be to get past its energy force field and press middle C but you can't because the leads that it uses to connect to your PC have become like weird limbs that can wrap round you like ivy and hold your hands next to your body and you're having waking nightmares about the times you should have been listening in communal music lessons as a kid because you can't remember which one middle C is anyway and perhaps they told you about MIDI monsters too but it's all academic now as the limb-leads get tighter around your torso and your eyes begin to bulge out of your head under the pressure and and and...