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[wshaffer]

So, a small plane crashed in East Palo Alto this morning, and took out a number of the power transmission lines that serve Palo Alto, leaving the offices where I work completely without power. Not to make light of what was a terrible tragedy for the people on board that plane, but watching the employees of a technology company try to occupy themselves in the absence of electricity is pretty funny. By 9:45, I'd read a number of documents that I'd printed to read offline and cleaned my desk, and had a choice between going for a walk or sitting in the office watching my boss fidget. I took a walk, and arrived back at the office an hour later to find the power still out and a note from my boss saying she'd told everyone to go home.

Weirdly, the auto-flush toilets and electronic sensing faucets in the bathrooms at work seem to have a backup source of power. Which is good, really, but...odd.

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[mrissa.livejournal.com]

When markgritter's California office was without power one afternoon, he used his cell to call his wife in Minnesota (me, obviously) to check the movie listings for Palo Alto movie theaters. And we agreed that we were definitely living in the fuuuuuture.