Ableton Live almost burned down my kitchen!!!

icedsushi · Post by **icedsushi** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 2:40 pm

I got myself one of THESE. It solves the tea thing! You can even leave it on for weeks!

It's really high quality, seems like it will last forever, and if you filter your water with a brita pitcher, there's no cleaning/maintenance or calcium deposits. I never have to wait for hot water anymore just press the button, fill your teapot and head back to the computer to make some jams.

It's insulated, using very little electricity and the water always stays exactly 195 degrees. Saves a lot of time plus the tea tastes better because it's always the perfect temperature (water that is too hot burns the tea leaves and makes a bitter taste).

For cooking, if you dispense it into your pan, the hot water will start boiling on the stove in about 2 minutes.

Sales Dude McBoob · Post by **Sales Dude McBoob** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 2:41 pm

Thank god you caught it in time!!!!

I was visiting my sister's apartment in Brooklyn a couple weeks ago, she lives on the 6th floor + top floor of her apartment building, and while I was there a fire erupted in the apartment next to us.

It was shocking. Really really really really shocking. Fires happen amazingly quickly. One moment we were relaxing in her livingroom eating dinner, then next moment we are being told by a NYFD in full gear to stay inside the apartment. We couldn't leave because the hall was now dense with smoke and the elevator was shut down and the staircase was being used by the firemen. We look out the window and there was already a fucking ladder up to the window next to her 9 month old baby's bedroom

We didn't hear the firetrucks, there were no fire alarms in the building that worked, all of my sisters interior battery powered fire alarms failed. It was fucking insane. It was a nightmare. The fire took place on the other side of the wall of my little nephew's bedroom. A few minutes before all of this happened my sister had asked me if I smelled smoke. I didn't. The food I was eating was from a supermarket buffet and it had a funky / burnt smell. I joked with my sister that it was probably just my stinky food.

This all took place, I shit you not, in a matter of two or three minutes.

The apartment next door was destroyed competely. No one was hurt, the people in the apartment were out of town. They think the fire started near an electical outlet.

The NYFD have my full respect. They were on point. Any New Yorker reading this thread should feel a little safer knowing that those guys are worth every little bit of the adoration they recieve.

mikemc · Post by **mikemc** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 2:44 pm

icedsushi wrote:I got myself one of THESE. It solves the tea thing! You can even leave it on for weeks!

interesting, ok -- let me run that scenario...

me: I got you this neat electric dispensing pot.
her: why?
me: because i know you like tea so much.
her: you lying bastard.
me: no, really ...

Ok. so, my question would be, does it seem like it would it hurt a lot if you got hit with one?

mikemc · Post by **mikemc** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 2:46 pm

Sales Dude McBoob wrote:Thank god you caught it in time!!!!

I was visiting my sister's apartment in Brooklyn a couple weeks ago, she lives on the 6th floor + top floor of her apartment building, and while I was there a fire erupted in the apartment next to us.

It was shocking. Really really really really shocking. Fires happen amazingly quickly. One moment we were relaxing in her livingroom eating dinner, then next moment we are being told by a NYFD in full gear to stay inside the apartment. We couldn't leave because the hall was now dense with smoke and the elevator was shut down and the staircase was being used by the firemen. We look out the window and there was already a fucking ladder up to the window next to her 9 month old baby's bedroom

damn.

icedsushi · Post by **icedsushi** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 2:47 pm

Well, the outside of it is plastic and it's insulated real good. It's not real heavy so I think the lump on your head would be gone in a week. Probably worth it, she will definately thank you long term & if she drinks tea every day, she will wonder how she got along without it.

I say go for it!

Sales Dude McBoob · Post by **Sales Dude McBoob** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 3:08 pm

Maybe we should group buy M-Breqs a mircowave oven

markaugust · Post by **markaugust** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 3:09 pm

reminds me of this friend of mine that let the frying-pan (as in full of boiling fat to put your fries in and stuff) on the stove after having some snacks after a night out drinking and fell asleep. He woke up the next morning with a 3 mm brown fatlayer all over his whole (!) house. his bed, his livingroom his kitchen, the floor, his face !, EVERYTHING.
He had the insurance to get the place totally cleaned by a clean-up team, which apparently has a protocal how to clean something like that (like with fires and such)

fucking hilarious story afterwards but man what a horrific situation to be in.

imagine that, just for a second for real, waking up;to a brown layered fat house.

hehe

was not ableton's fault tho, just alcohol (also known for some disastrous effects)

Sales Dude McBoob · Post by **Sales Dude McBoob** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 3:20 pm

markaugust wrote:reminds me of this friend of mine that let the frying-pan (as in full of boiling fat to put your fries in and stuff) on the stove after having some snacks after a night out drinking and fell asleep. He woke up the next morning with a 3 mm brown fatlayer all over his whole (!) house. his bed, his livingroom his kitchen, the floor, his face !, EVERYTHING.
He had the insurance to get the place totally cleaned by a clean-up team, which apparently has a protocal how to clean something like that (like with fires and such)

fucking hilarious story afterwards but man what a horrific situation to be in.

imagine that, just for a second for real, waking up;to a brown layered fat house.

hehe

was not ableton's fault tho, just alcohol (also known for some disastrous effects)

markaugust · Post by **markaugust** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 3:32 pm

mikemc wrote:
Sales Dude McBoob wrote:Thank god you caught it in time!!!!

I was visiting my sister's apartment in Brooklyn a couple weeks ago, she lives on the 6th floor + top floor of her apartment building, and while I was there a fire erupted in the apartment next to us.

It was shocking. Really really really really shocking. Fires happen amazingly quickly. One moment we were relaxing in her livingroom eating dinner, then next moment we are being told by a NYFD in full gear to stay inside the apartment. We couldn't leave because the hall was now dense with smoke and the elevator was shut down and the staircase was being used by the firemen. We look out the window and there was already a fucking ladder up to the window next to her 9 month old baby's bedroom
damn.

had this as well, once in my previous appartment, the neighbour had his candle too close to the windowdrapes (Is that how you call those?) He had the same entrance as we do, but a door between it. It is due to the fact that we (me and my roomie) were still up at 4 that we heard the crispering sounds from behind the door. We went in the hallway and opened up his door and saw him the 65 year old neigbour throwing water with a pan as big as a cup at a fire as big as 3 square meters (!)
(that picture would have fitted in any comedymovie) stunned by the view (strange how these things go; you just paralize for a few seconds not knowing how to react)
on which we ran in our kitchen and got buckets full with water and some big blankets and saved the day. Later on when the house was full of smoke and the fire allready out, the firemen came, and that was just such an experience, to be in your own kitchen while I was opening a window or something and all dark and smokey and see a light coming in, which was the helmet-light of a firemen in full armour telling me to get out of the building for them to clear it. so surreal.
nice sidestory was that we were the only students in a for the rest really rich area/building in which we were looked down at by all those people in that building as "them young potsmoking workless boys" which turned into the boys that saved the building/their house. Never got any complaints after that anymore about to loud music!

M. Bréqs · Post by **M. Bréqs** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 3:49 pm

It's frightening how many of these stories there are....

Man.

Hey SDMB, I'll take a microwave any day!!!

kennerb · Post by **kennerb** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 4:55 pm

jeskola wrote:ive done this a couple of times, burnt holes in pots and pans
why oh why isnt there a midi controller with an egg timer on it yet

After melting my tea pot to the stove I now keep an egg timer on my desk when I am cooking and mixing music. My house smelt like an aluminum smelting plant for a week!

kennerb · Post by **kennerb** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 5:03 pm

markaugust wrote:reminds me of this friend of mine that let the frying-pan (as in full of boiling fat to put your fries in and stuff) on the stove after having some snacks after a night out drinking and fell asleep. He woke up the next morning with a 3 mm brown fatlayer all over his whole (!) house. his bed, his livingroom his kitchen, the floor, his face !, EVERYTHING.
He had the insurance to get the place totally cleaned by a clean-up team, which apparently has a protocal how to clean something like that (like with fires and such)

fucking hilarious story afterwards but man what a horrific situation to be in.

imagine that, just for a second for real, waking up;to a brown layered fat house.

hehe

was not ableton's fault tho, just alcohol (also known for some disastrous effects)

He must had silky smooth skin for months!!