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Sunday, November 06, 2005

A World Without Power

As I was typing up the previous post about the new Yahoo Maps last night, my apartment lost power. A large storm had been rolling through town for an hour or so before it finally knocked out the wonderful electricity. The first thing I noticed was the rest of the room had gone dark except for my desk area which is all run off my UPS. I shutdown my computers and realized I did not have a flashlight or anything else at hand. I proceeded to plug my desk lamp into the UPS until we lit some candles.

A few of our friends from next door stopped by and we all chatted for a while. None of us knew what to do. All our entertainment was in electronic form. The best idea we had was to watch a movie off my laptop, but the battery did not have enough power to last the whole time. The only board game we had was TV Scene It... wait, no TV/DVD player... Also no xbox, no computer, no tv, no movies... what are we suppose to do on a dark rainy night? Well, we finally gave up and headed to Steak n Shake for a milk shake and something to do. By the time we got home, the power was back on and we watched some TV and chatted. What is a geek suppose to do without power...

Posted by Jon Heizer at 8:01 PM