Thursday Morning: A Comedy in One Act

dws on 2004-07-22T23:31:58

I can't get to my dev box. Oh, you can't either? Nobody can? Is the dev net down? Who has the router password? Damn, he's not here yet. But who needs the password when you can just pull the plug? Heh heh. (Reboot the router.) Still nothing. Hey, shouldn't the lights on the switch in other room be on? Hm... (Throw the switch on the switch a few times.) Nothing? Damn, the switch must be cooked. Hold on, the lights on all these other boxes are off, too! (Look around some more.) They're all plugged into power strips, and the buttons on the strips are all lit. Hey, the power strips are all cascaded! Maybe one went bad. (Unplug unplug unplug.) Uh, which one was bad? Oh. These are all on the same circuit, let's run an extension... We can fix that later. (Plug plug plug.) Ah...