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One of those moods.
A cow-orker forwarded email suggesting we protest
I'm-not-sure-what with a voluntary "blackout" for
three hours on the summer solstice. So I wrote back, asking if she plans to unplug her refrigerator. She hadn't even thought about it. I'll bet few of the folks who are forwarding this, who are going to turn the lights and computers off for three hours, plan to unplug all their electric clocks, either.
Blackouts don't let you keep the most important appliance on. Turning the lights out is easy, especially on the longest day of the year. So is turning your home PC off for three hours. It's clocks and refrigerators and elevators and traffic lights that cause trouble when they go off unexpectedly, not stereos or televisions.
There's more going on, but this is the rant I feel comfortable putting here now. If you care, and dare, ask me privately. And if I can, I might tell you. No promises. Maybe, by the time you ask, I won't want to eat worms, and won't remember why I wrote this.
Maybe.
A cow-orker forwarded email suggesting we protest
I'm-not-sure-what with a voluntary "blackout" for
three hours on the summer solstice. So I wrote back, asking if she plans to unplug her refrigerator. She hadn't even thought about it. I'll bet few of the folks who are forwarding this, who are going to turn the lights and computers off for three hours, plan to unplug all their electric clocks, either.
Blackouts don't let you keep the most important appliance on. Turning the lights out is easy, especially on the longest day of the year. So is turning your home PC off for three hours. It's clocks and refrigerators and elevators and traffic lights that cause trouble when they go off unexpectedly, not stereos or televisions.
There's more going on, but this is the rant I feel comfortable putting here now. If you care, and dare, ask me privately. And if I can, I might tell you. No promises. Maybe, by the time you ask, I won't want to eat worms, and won't remember why I wrote this.
Maybe.