{"id":629,"date":"2016-03-01T14:03:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T19:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/?p=629"},"modified":"2016-03-18T20:24:21","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T01:24:21","slug":"a-winner-is-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/?p=629","title":{"rendered":"A Winner Is Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"
I’m a slave to memes, get over it.<\/h6>\n

So, out of the blue, I got a package this morning… I wasn’t expecting a package at all, let alone one from Digi-Key, because while they may be\u00a0one of my two go-to domestic suppliers\u00a0for electronic components (The other being Mouser), I hadn’t even ordered anything from them!<\/p>\n

When I opened the package I got quite the surprise. \u00a0I was greeted by a brand new extra-shiny Fluke 117 ‘Electrician’s True RMS Multimeter’, and the appropriate soft carrying case… (Total retail value: about $225, not including the Digi-Key logo stickers. ;P) \u00a0Needless to say I was ecstatic, my best multimeter is some Chinese bootleg that– while it has served me well enough –I can’t vouch for the accuracy of like I can a Fluke.<\/p>\n

\"Yessss!<\/a>

Yessss! A real multimeter!<\/p><\/div>\n

Okay, I had<\/em>\u00a0however taken part in a contest via their Twitter account, as I have many times in the past. \u00a0The contest was a series of ‘word jumble’ puzzles, one every day, all week. \u00a0Each jumbled word had circled letters that made up the answer to an initial question… And the whole thing was rather fun, though I really wonder where they got the puzzles…it’s like there’s a book of ‘Electrical Engineer Dad Jokes’ out there. \u00a0Example: “Q: Why was the capacitor angry at the marketing department? A: It’s not a farad.”<\/p>\n

In case you aren’t enough of an enormous NERD<\/em>\u00a0to have gotten that– count your lucky stars –the joke is: farad (unit of capacitance) -> homophone of ‘fair ad’ -> etc. (cue sad-trombone.wav)<\/p>\n

Yes, they were all terrible puns and wordplay like that. \u00a0Seriously, is there a book of those? I want it in case I ever need\u00a0to torture somebody to death<\/em>\u00a0without leaving any evidence.<\/p>\n

Amusing aside:<\/strong> Out of curiosity I tracked the package, and it was shipped the afternoon of the second day of the contest…which pretty much means I had to have been the first day’s daily winner. :D \u00a0There was an overall grand prize as well, a\u00a0stunningly-expensive Fluke ‘ScopeMeter’…a portable full-color digital oscilloscope. \u00a0No idea who won that, though. (Obviously not me. And frankly, if I had I would’ve sold it on eBay, bought a\u00a0cheap bench scope, and used the difference to help fund my business.)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wherein I get a brand new Fluke multimeter dropped in my lap for doing little more than enduring painfully bad EE humor. (Thanks, Digi-Key!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[68,58,67,57],"wf_post_folders":[79],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogposts","tag-digi-key","tag-electronics","tag-suppliers","tag-tools"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NlLW-a9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":632,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions\/632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=629"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwf_post_folders&post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}