Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for April 01, 2021

It’s on!

When you are like Norman and Nigel and have no real life, you have plenty of time to kill batteries.

But Nigel has more gadgets. So he wins the big contest.

And between them, they bought 2 cups of coffee and one sticky bun, total, but they hogged both tables for 9 hours…and made a mess of the restrooms.

And they’re killing their business right now.

Considering that phone and laptop batteries are very expensive to replace…

and that most of us know they’re rechargeable, usually for about as long as you’re likely to own your device…

Just what are they doing to them?

And which of them is actually the biggest tech ninny?

Let us bow our heads for those batteries that have died in vain.

Murderers row…

And they get a charge from this….HEE HEE HEE

Wait until they have a pacemaker. Then who will be bragging?

Take your choice

Energizer® bunnies they are not.

My Comcast Xfinity remote just chews through batteries! It’s probably because that darned thing lights up every time it’s even moved…

I used to have job as a Computer Techie, and a few years ago, I found out that those flat, silvery PC motherboard batteries were exactly the same kind that my Casio wristwatch takes. And since I always kept the batteries from obsolete or failed motherboards and had way more than I would ever need, I took a few with me for my watch when I retired.

And – I slammed a 6-pack of Mt. Dew and a family sized bag of Cheetohs!

Computer batteries can swell and potentially burst. In my job, I replaced two of them in Macs just this year. Tomorrow, the battery could kill you.

Battery hit men.