The power went out...

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...taking down the wireless station. How am I posting this? Using my internal modem and laptop battery power.

How retro.

Edit: It's a bit weird typing in a darkened room with the only light coming from the window and the laptop.

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[(Anonymous)]

Once upon a time I was an IT manager at a small university. My staff thought I was pretty weird for having a Macintosh and insisting my assistant also have one, but after a while they noticed that whenever everybody else got the latest Windows virus (it's impossible to avoid them in colleges, no matter how much antivirus stuff you have) we never got a virus. They thought that was kinda neat, but they were starting to get over it.

One day the power went out. We were deep in the basement, nowhere near a window, so it was pitch black. My staff got worried about poor me, way down the hall with no flashlight. They found a flashlight and came running, only to find my office brightly glowing by the light of two iMacs as my assistant and I calmly continued programming. I looked up and found several staff members gaping at us, and one finally said "holy shit, those things don't even need power!"

They didn't know I'd installed UPSs under our desks. :-D