My wife got me a Zoom F3 field recorder so I can get higher quality recordings of birds (which was nice). I plugged in my microphone and nothing happened. I handed it back to her and she set it to 24-bit Phantom Power and now it works.
Yes, 24-bit Phantom Power!
Why turn it off and on again when instead you can set it to 24-bit Phantom Power!
(This is probably amusing me more than it should.)
[Edit: @downbeatdan corrected me (thanks). It's 24-volt Phantom Power, not 24-bit Phantom Power. Both seem pretty awesome.]