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Posted by Juno B on October 3, 2009, 11:03 pm
Sharon Hays wrote:
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> Kate XXXXXX wrote:
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>> Olwyn.Mary wrote:
>>> Juno B wrote:
>>>> Pogonip wrote:
>>>>> Juno B wrote:
>>>>>> Is it just me or does anyone else see the irony in the following
>>>>>> article. It's about our local power company.
>>>>>> Juno
>>>>> Uhhhh......how do you access that website when you have no power?
>>>> And that dear friend is the catch. Maybe you just whistle!
>>>> Juno
>>> You use your laptop on battery power, or perhaps you can bring it up if
>>> you have a Blackberry type device or web access on your cell phone. I
>>> don't have any of the latter ones, ust the laptop.
>>> Olwyn Mary in New Orleans
>> But you still cannot connect to the net if your wireless modem has no
>> power... Unless you have a dongle and the local network is still
>> working. I work on a laptop, and when the power is down here, even
>> though I can use the pooter, ther connection to the net is still
>> powerless.
>> Phone connections to the net may still work, but there are still far
>> fewer of us with those... I tend to want my phone to make calls and
>> store numbers, and that's all! :)
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>
> Yep, and here most of the folks (in our neighborhood) who have wifi at home
> have it through the cable company. Well, in January when we were w/o power
> for 5 days because of the ice storm, the feeder line for cable was laying
> in the street up the block before where it goes underground. So.....that
> was a big no go. The phone was the only thing that still worked during the
> ice storm. Which was really surprising since it tends to go out for no
> reason, frequently. Could be a clear, sunny day and the phone won't work
> for a little while. I don't even try to figure out why any more.
>
> I guess we should all get hamsters. Then we could get hamster wheels and
> hook those to little generators. Then we could power our computers with
> those if the electricity is out. And we could log on to the site to see if
> we have power or not........ LOL Hey!! That would be a green solution
> too!!! (I'll just save the honda generator for running my gas furnace like
> I did in January, thank you ever so.)
>
> And while we're at it, we won't pop into a newsgroup we've rarely (if
> ever??) posted to and chew out one of the well loved, long time regular
> posters. Especially not if that NG is populated by a group of folks with
> really sharp implements close at hand.
>
> Sharon
Thanks for your support Sharon. I appreciate your very kind words.
Yeah, we do have sharp instruments don't we. You're a sweetheart.
Juno
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>> And while we're at it, we won't pop into a newsgroup
>> we've rarely (if ever??) posted to and chew out one of
>> the well loved, long time regular posters. Especially
>> not if that NG is populated by a group of folks with
>> really sharp implements close at hand.
>> Sharon
>
> I imagine your subtlety is lost on "Pamela" aka
> bicycleguy123@gmail.com. A google search found exactly two
> posts to alt.sewing using that nym, both within the last 72
> hours.
>
> Beverly
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>