How many computing students does it take to change a lightbulb?

Apparently more than one. The light in my downstairs hallway blew recently so I finally decided to get round to changing it just now. It’s a mission though. It took me ages to unscrew it because everything is unscrewable so holding onto the right bit of the fitting was a challenge in itself. To the point where the entire thing is now sitting on my dining room table in bits.

Nor does it help that there are like a million types of bulbs. Why can’t there just be 100w bulbs, I’d even settle for 240 100w bulbs, I can work out what that means. But they all have some kind of serial code on which is all the same on the box but different to the light. As far as I can see it’s the same thing which is the one I tried although there are loads of other different classifications on them as well. It’s just a lightbulb!

On the plus side, I was getting worried this real world thing was getting to me a little too much. But I can relax a little now knowing I haven’t lost all my nerdly persona.

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