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Geek Complex without Power
The Geek Complex is without power today following an electrical cable cut
inadvertently made by the phone company following some work in the area.
This means Rob and Jeff are unable to post stories, respond to e-mail, etc.
It also explains my sudden usurping of power on the site. We're hoping
that everything gets fixed soon.
all hail cowboy neal! cutter of power! web usurper! all hail cowboy neal!
"CowboyNeal at the wheel, I was bused to never-never land...."
Just wondering if the outage has any relation to Jeff and Rob guest starring in the comic After Y2K over on Geek Culture? Love the poll too ;-)
You are right on the mark - this CowboyNeal guy is a great administrator - and definitely reminds me of the days that hooked me on slashdot. Keep up the good work, and pay the phone company an extra $100 to keep the geek complex without power.
Yeah, maybe Slashdot could have been a victim of the 'BBC Effect'. >:)
C|N>K!!!
Funny! Moderators, please?
No kidding, when the repair crew got to the scene, the *first* thing they did was to dig out nice comfy seats in the ditch.
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At about $1000 a minute
It really was the right thing for them to do. They didn't go anywhere for quite awhile.
If I remember correctly, this was the only trunk from Colorado Springs to Denver (at the time). And that the cut cost the contractor about a grand a minute. But that was in the late 70's, and I've slept since then.
I caught the secondary to an apartment complex once when I was an apprentice. The only thing that saved my butt, was that a backhoe operator got the primary out front at the same time :)
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Mine just smoked a little. He had to go home to change his shorts
"Capt'n I'm doing all that I can, but I need more time to repair the damage to the bridge and restore full power."
McCoy: "Jim you've got to do something, if those nerds don't get their news, there could be psychological damage across the whole planet".
Spock: "Captain, Dr. McCoy is correct. If the site is left unattended for very long, the Internet itself could be at risk".
Kirk: "We need an alternative now. Scotty, would it be possible to restore power to auxilary control before the bridge?"
Scotty: "Aye Capt'n, I could do that, but you wouldn't be able to get there."
Kirk: "I'll worry about that problem, just get auxilary control online now. Kirk to Ensign Cowboy Neal. Report to auxilary control and take tactical command. I'll remain in strategic command here until the bridge is repaird."
Cowboy Neal: "Aye aye Captain, auxilary control is now online."
They may have, I tore a water line out from the corporation (fitting) on a water main once. The city didn't know it was there since it had been abandoned for years.
:P
Any idea how much water comes out of a 3/4" hole @ 800 PSI?
We also got a 2" gas line that wasn't found by the locators.
But yea, usually it's either not called in for locating, or it's located properly and people get lazy. I saw a guy take out a thousand pair telephone cable that way (back in the days when a thousand pair was a major line). Just minutes before hitting the thing, he told me that he could "feel the cable with his DitchWitch". He felt it alright, right in the wallet.
His bonding company wouldn't pay for the damage since it had been located properly.
from the "do-i-get-stock-options-now" department ;-0?
Apparently the local power company had a problem across town from /. and only has two repair crews out today. Phones, says Hemos, "are cutting in and out." They promise to post - phone - e-mail the second everything's working again.
Isn't the phone company usually the one responsible for breaking everything? Well, I'm not sure about up there, but down here, Bell Atlantic does a damned good job of breaking things.
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
As much as I dislike faux cowboys, I must say the quality of your story picks reminds me of how this site used to be a couple years ago. You rock!
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Put Hemos through English 101!
by John Hinkley and Secretary of State Al Haig held a news conference where he stated, " I am in control here at the White House." The only problem was that there were a couple people ahead of Haig in the official succession of power.
Can you imagine the Screaming and Torment(tm) going on at the Complex right now? There's Rob in the corner, racked with withdrawl symptoms; Hemos gibbering in the dark about "internet" and "SlashDot". Probably something resembling a level of Quake I....
And I agree, CB Neal is doing a FINE job of article selection today.
SNICKERSNAG ON CMDR TACO!!!! Whee!
jf
CowboyNeal must be why everything seems to be spelled correctly today. Let CowboyNeal do this more often...
Congrats, Rob and crew!
Steve Yelvington offers high praise for Slashdot:
Steve Yelvington, Executive Editor of Cox Interactive Media in the US, told the annual Netmedia conference in London that the rules were changing in the new medium of the Internet.
"We are not gatekeepers anymore, the city walls are down, we don't own customers, we don't control information," he said.
Slashdot threatens extinction
"But they still need us as guides. They need to know what's important, what's true and what's useful. Our new role is as a trusted guide."
Mr Yelvington said in his keynote speech that, in the new journalism, people were telling their own stories on sites such as Geocities, Tripod and TalkCity and he praised the News for Nerds discussion group Slashdot:
"If Slashdot were a mammal, most of our news sites would be the dinosaurs. Many journalists don't understand this and don't think it's journalism."
diva Pasty Drone NewsTrolls, Inc.
Ahem. Not *all* of us are power hungry when we game. Although... one of my greatest joys is GMing Paranoia....
Hey, why doesn't someone write a Paranoia game for Linux? Not just that old text-adventure one, this one should have graphics! Fully rendered warbots! Transparent Bouncy Bubble Beverage! Hot Fun!
Pope Felix the Scurrilous.
Computer Geek by day, religious Icon by night.
Whatever happend to calling before breaking ground. I know with GTE they preach that you should call them before cutting. Whoever thought that they would not heed their own advice from the propaganda machine.
CowboyNeal, where've you been?! Seems like it's been ages since you dropped us a few stories...
RinkRat
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I was way off!
A thousand pair cable is a big deal if you're the one that has to fix it. I once had a subcontractor that was doing trenching work for me hit a 900 pair cable on a university campus (we were putting in fiber). Luckily he only went through half of the cable, but I still had to sit in a muddy hole all day the following day and splice the damn thing. It was a big deal to me.
about how geeks can get pretty obnoxious in rpg because they are totally inefectual in real life so they get all power hungry in the games ... geek complex (as in a 'short person complex') without power (as in totally ineffectual) ... perhaps that was just me being hopefull
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if knowledge is power, the internet is god - me again
j/k - hope the power's back soon
-=Knowledge of software commands does not mean mastery of concepts=-
I totally object to some moderator's marking of "OffTopic" on this one. I demand that some other moderator mark it as "Interesting" or "Insightful" in recompense.
It's Friday, so people make mistakes. Like trashing power-lines.
Plus, CmdrTaco might just be pulling the old "The-PhoneCompany-Killed-My-Power" gag for a long weekend.
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If he took weekends.
>.. geek complex (as in a 'short person complex')
I thought this was called a Napoleon Complex...(The one where short people want to rule the world.)
"If you dont have anything important to say, just bitch and whine" -- ME