Re: Very OT

Pogonip wrote:
Juno B wrote:

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


I don't have any of those toys and don't plan on getting them either.
The people I know with lap tops are either working people or students.
I did tell DH we could always call one of our out of town kids on the
TracFone and have them check. I do have a thingy for storms that we can
recharge the phone on. But how many people have generators to recharge
phones or computers on. We have had more than 1 outage here that has
gone on for 3 or 4 days.
Juno


Even with a laptop, you need a connection. My DSL is through the phone line, my modem has to plug in and so does my router.

My five year old laptop has a wireless modem. Nowadays, I get my broadband through the phone company, but I don't have to plug the laptop into anything for it to work. Mind you, I also pay aol to keep my long-time addy, and also to be able to plug into dial-up if the wireless goes out.

I remember very clearly, right after Katrina, as soon as the mayor opened up the city six weeks after the storm, we in our area (10% of the city)had electricity already. However, those who were too cheap to pay for high speed internet were very amusing. Very few of the coffeshops with wifi had reopened yet, so we saw lots of folk sitting on the sidewalk outside the coffeeshops with their laptops in use. After the batteries ran down, they went back home, recharged, and came back to sit on the sidewalk and surf the net again. Good job it was mid-October and very pleasant to sit outside.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.
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