Surge protectors protect your electronic devices from power surges. Even I know to use one on my flat screen TV and I'm a linguist and a hippie and a girl.
My friend, P, works long hard hours at a aerospace company making sure everything runs smoothly and nothing blows up. P is always so tired taking care that the rocket ship is well oiled that he forgets to take care of his own electronics. P's got a big screen TV and a computer that both connect to an amplifier in his apartment. It's a rather nice little set up. Anyway, P had a vacation coming up and he was so worried about leaving work and that everything would fall apart while he was gone, but guess what, nothing blew up at work. When he returned from his fabulous vacay in the wilderness, it was his own computer at home that was busted. P never installed a surge protector in his own home, so when there was a spike in voltage in his janky apartment building's electrical system, the surge went through the amplifier which plugged right in to his computer's sound card. Luckily, his TV was turned off so his TV survived. I bet it's got to be really frustrating for a rocket scientist to not have any sound on his computer. Guess that means no World of Warcraft.
Janky is a great word. Were you using it to describe the apartment building or the electrical system? Or both?
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