Just remember this, when you’re shaking off a foot of newly fallen snow after 25-below, you can be under the weather for reasons other than chardonnay. Thus, the Chairman wishes me to report that her lack of blogging is not due to the lingering consequences of overly enthusiastic participation in the office party. Rather, she is the victim of a wireless network that won’t let her to connect to the Internet. She promises to return to blogging as soon as the system allows her. I believe the problem is due to the fact, in extreme cold, electrons don’t want to go outside. They’d rather slink along copper wire than follow an unprotected uplink into low earth orbit.
Posted by Professor at February 3, 2004 02:40 PMTo quote (from fallible memory): "Electrons are notional critters and occasionally have to be reminded who's boss." -- Gwen Novak in Robert A. Heinlein's 'The Cat Who Walks Through Walls'
Posted by: aelfheld at February 5, 2004 09:34 PM