Power outages

We haven't had any, but there are various blackouts throughout the city, probably from overloading the grid as the last I heard there are no planned rolling blackouts here. I've been following the various @oncor and #oncor tags on Twitter, and as always musing on how little it takes, in this modern world, for people to start screaming when their modern conveniences vanish.

Nobody screaming quite seems to understand that the power grid isn't built to cover extremes that rarely happen--the occasional ice storm isn't much compared to the daily high temps we get in summer.

Someone was complaining that they lived in Minnesota for ten years and never had an outage due to cold. Well, DUH.

Also, if you have someone in your household whose health will be negatively impacted by an extended outage, maaaaaybe you should own a generator instead of complaining about it on Twitter. Just sayin'.

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Book

Joe Abercrombie's _Best Served Cold_. A woman out for vengeance and for once it's NOT a rape-and-revenge story!

Only partway through it right now, but so far recommended for those who thought the Black Company series wasn't quite dark enough.

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Dear person...

... who posted on the university's Facebook announcement that the servers controlling email and the school's portal site were down, asking if the portal site was still down, because it loaded and loaded and loaded and never completed loading...

I believe you should re-read your question. You may find enlightenment there.

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Wow...

FOURTH SNOW DAY IN A ROW


I am getting stir crazy.


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Hmmmm

Dear dude who is whining on Twitter about how much money you and your customers have lost today due to frequent small blackouts affecting your servers...

...do you really mean to say that you're running a data center with no emergency backup generator? The hell??

Thank you for letting me know not to utilize your services if I ever need a local company for webhosting.


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