On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 15:47 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 23:33 -0500, Ric Moore wrote: > > We had a lightning storm and there was this ball of light that > > S L O W L Y drifted down the telco line to the modem. I were all > > stunned to see it, then it clicked inside my head; > > > > "U-N-P-L-U-G T-H-E M-O-D-E-M !!!" > > I doubt you'd have been able to do anything, no matter how quickly you > reacted. While the light show might have been a slow thing to progress, > the current going through the line would have been just as quick as > electricity is in any other form. yeah, not to mention me possibly getting my hair straightened while grabbing that wire! It was really UFO weird. It was about 4-6 inches round. The telco wire came out of the ceiling down to the computer station, and it was just lazily drifting it's way down the wire, like something E.T. would summon. It was bright, but not blindingly so. But the modem status lights appeared normal until the light ball hit the back of the modem and then there was a little "pop!" noise, the lights winked in unison several times and then went out, stone cold dead. That was back in the day when a 56k connect with a static IP was about $150 a month. No slack back in them thar days. Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================
