View Full Version : Batteries and their elusiveness
Green Spanner
02-23-2010, 07:29 AM
So I've just spent about half an hour searching for a single AA battery. Whenever I need one, they are nowhere to be found.
Same goes with AAAs, which are otherwise plentiful when I'm searching for AAs.
Am I the only one that has this problem?
Buddha Fett
02-23-2010, 09:41 AM
It's even worse when they're rechargeable batteries; those things cost a shitload.
Lost in Time
02-23-2010, 11:00 AM
Even worse is when you know where that pile of dead batteries are, and you're filtering through them to find the one that at least has an ounce of life left. To no avail :(
Fuck you batteries. You suck.
My Gameboy Pocket eats through two AAA batteries in a day’s worth of playing Pokemon Yellow. I’ve been playing it while at work for the last two weeks. Luckily if my personal supply runs out I can walk over to the warehouse and requisition industrial strength ones for the “remotes in our office.”
stefan
02-23-2010, 11:28 AM
I have this problem as it applies to silverware.
My PSP, phone, PS3 controllers and whatever else I have are on chargers. All I need to do is remember to plug them in.
Amake
02-23-2010, 11:33 AM
I've got rechargable batteries for all my stuff, and I haven't had to buy one battery in like four years.
Not like at my old job though. Most of what I did was checking used toys to see if they worked. For that you need batteries. And in this workplace, expensive things had a tendency to disappear, so I had to bitch about it for two years until I got a set of rechargable ones. By then my supplies were:
*1 jar of used batteries salvaged from toys, mostly AA, a few D and A and I think two AAA. Good luck figuring out if they have run dry or if the toy you're testing isn't working.
* 4 rechargable AA batteries.
* 2 rechargable A batteries.
* 1 dead 9v battery.
Over the course of the five years I worked there I figure I threw away between two and five metric tons of electronic entertainment, including a Sega Game Gear, what I hope was an imitation AIBO and innumerable RC cars, without knowing if they could have been sold for good money or not. The budget for my department was I think the cheapest of anything the city's paid for in its history, because we had so close zero expenses. But it was therefore also technically the most profitable, so it was all good.
Just had to get that off my chest.
Wigmund
02-23-2010, 11:36 AM
So I've just spent about half an hour searching for a single AA battery. Whenever I need one, they are nowhere to be found.
Same goes with AAAs, which are otherwise plentiful when I'm searching for AAs.
Am I the only one that has this problem?
It's the battery gnomes. They sneak around the cupboards and come out to steal batteries to power cockroach generators.
Green Spanner
02-23-2010, 11:41 AM
It's the battery gnomes. They sneak around the cupboards and come out to steal batteries to power cockroach generators.
Step 1: Steal batteries
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Pofit!
Queen, where'd you work? Not to rag on the job itself, but that sounds like something that would be easier automated.
Hanuman
02-23-2010, 12:25 PM
All future batteries will be rechargeable, all charged by Wi-tricity zones.
Amake
02-23-2010, 12:26 PM
Where I worked was a city run recycling plant/second hand store/dumping ground for people pathologically unable to get a job facility. They did everything from disassembling old office equipment and houses to fixing up furniture and toys people throw away and sell it on. If you could make a robot that recognizes every battery powered thing on the market and and inserts the right battery to test its function I'm sure they'd take it.
If it's cheap enough that is. Heh, I worked for 30 SEK per day. (About 5 USD.) It actually cost me more than that to take the bus there and back, the last two years.
(And now you're wondering what I did there. It was not a job per se, but an experimental get disabled people out of the house and meeting people project sort of thing. I really only met my supervisors, but they were nice enough to justify going there.)
The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk
02-23-2010, 03:00 PM
My PSP, phone, PS3 controllers and whatever else I have are on chargers. All I need to do is remember to plug them in.
^^ This, though remove psp (I don't use mine any more) and throw in ipod (with 16 hour battery life) and bluetooth headset. I hate batteries in all their forms, and prefer to draw power straight off the grid.
The only things I have that use batteries are my watch (an annual replacement), my alarm clock (can't remember when I last changed those) and my tv remote (still running after 2 years!).
Yes, I live in a gloriously battery free zone.
BitVyper
02-23-2010, 03:57 PM
I have a wireless energy transfer system given to me by the immortal Nikola Tesla after I found his lair. Batteries are for chumps.
The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk
02-23-2010, 06:18 PM
I have a wireless energy transfer system given to me by the immortal Nikola Tesla after I found his lair. Batteries are for chumps.
*So Jealous*
I wanted to meet the immortal Nikola Tesla!
So I've just spent about half an hour searching for a single AA battery. Whenever I need one, they are nowhere to be found.
Same goes with AAAs, which are otherwise plentiful when I'm searching for AAs.
Am I the only one that has this problem?
http://www.motivationpics.com/images/that_fucking_piece.jpg
Pic related, it's what I felt like every time I was after a specific Lego block.
Green Spanner
02-23-2010, 06:47 PM
Pic related, it's what I felt like every time I was after a specific Lego block.
One of the main reasons I don't play with legos anymore.
One of the main reasons I don't play with legos anymore.
That is the main reason I used past tense to describe the sensation.
Thank god for rechargeable things!
Green Spanner
02-23-2010, 07:13 PM
That is the main reason I used past tense to describe the sensation.
Thank god for rechargeable things!
Rechargeable lego?
Premmy
02-24-2010, 04:57 AM
We call them Wolverines.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3617/3693477876_dd6561a685.jpg
Rechargeable lego?
Should have clarified that better, no, I like rechargeable batteries, I was just using the picture to describe the sensation one feels when you cannot find something you saw a million times before.
We call them Wolverines.[/IMG]
I stiw haff not raffed.
Green Spanner
02-25-2010, 06:07 AM
Should have clarified that better, no, I like rechargeable batteries, I was just using the picture to describe the sensation one feels when you cannot find something you saw a million times before.
I know, I was just being a dick, because it makes me feel like a big man.
Premmy
02-25-2010, 06:09 AM
You being a dick? Little man's more like it!
Green Spanner
02-25-2010, 06:28 AM
You being a dick? Little man's more like it!
It's not the size it's what you do with it.
Not that you'd know anything about that, of course.
PyrosNine
02-25-2010, 08:39 AM
My personal problem is I will go out and just do one big lump of battery shopping, AA, AAA, B, C, D, hell, if I have to I'll get a car battery too, and I'll put them all in one cabinet drawer in my kitchen, so that I"ll always know where they are...but my family is just as "special" as I am, meaning that when they need some batteries, even if the damn thing is already opened, they'll take the ENTIRE package and carry it off to where batteries are needed. They won't just, take the batteries that they need and leave the package there, they will plop the entire thing of like, 20 batteries somewhere betwixt and between and if they need it again later they'll be all pissy at me for losing the batteries until they find them in their own room.
The worst part? They will put their spent batteries in the drawer. It's like they were replacing the ones they took. Here Pyros, we're taking all your batteries, and in recompense here are some dead batteries for you to discover are dead when you really need them, and wonder where we've taken your precious package of 20 odd something AA's.
The only explanation I have gotten so far for any of this behavior is they thought if they left them in the drawer, someone else would lose it. BLARGH!
On Rechargeables, my wiimote was rechargable but the batteries died hardcore because my brother doesn't play video games much anymore yet insists on keeping the wiimote next to his bed, where it is not on the charger. Now the wiimote is in my drawer away from home, next to the AA batteries, that only disappear because I forget they're in the drawer.
synkr0nized
02-25-2010, 10:45 AM
I, uh, never have this problem with batteries. Had the LEGO issue, sure, but not with batteries -- unless I am plain out of batteries and need one, though I am aware of that when it happens and not running around looking for them fruitlessly.
I also have rechargeables handy and ready to go, so normally "needing batteries" translates into me picking up a ready-to-go pair and charging the used pair(s).
I know, I was just being a dick, because it makes me feel like a big man.
Hey, if you hadn't, we couldn't have had this fun little exchange!
You being a dick? Little man's more like it!
Come now Prems, you needn't project yourself onto the other posters ALL the time...
I, uh, never have this problem with batteries. Had the LEGO issue, sure, but not with batteries -- unless I am plain out of batteries and need one, though I am aware of that when it happens and not running around looking for them fruitlessly.
I also have rechargeables handy and ready to go, so normally "needing batteries" translates into me picking up a ready-to-go pair and charging the used pair(s).
YAY Yoruichi-sama's back. Only thing we use actual batteries for are our Wii remotes.
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