Serial Killer Ports

So there I was, (relatively) innocently reading a website about serial port communication.

I probably should have stopped right there, but being the suicidal masochist I am, I decided that my brain needed the extra punishment.
This is because my brain has this strange idea that reading something on a website written by psychotic clowns will eventually translate into me actually understanding the subject about which said psychotic clowns wrote said website.

Very surprisingly, I even got 3 or 4 paragraphs in without immediately resorting to use of my trusty katana.

It was on the paragraph just after that which describes Mark as being a negative little shit and how he wanted to transition to Space (because that was much more positive) where I noticed the next line:

"Data bits are transmitted upside down and backwards."

Well, that just put the icing on the cake. In fact it didn't just put the icing on the cake, it bought the ingredients, read the recipe book and baked the cake first, before coating it in strawberry-flavoured death. It then mercilessly grabbed my head with a hydraulic robotic arm and slammed my face violently and repeatedly into the finished product.

The most depressing part of the matter is that since Electronics Engineers are notorious for being completely insane I should have been expecting something like this. I really should have been prepared, and sharpened my katana beforehand.

So now I have to waste time while I get it ready, and I just can't wait to feel that rush of adrenaline as the blade penetrates my intestines and severs my spinal cord on the way out.