An Otherwise Unheralded Advantage
We just got a thunderstorm. It went from no rain to "I'm in the street and I'm drowning"-type rain in the span of about thirty seconds. I was standing outside, admiring the rain when I saw the quick flash of lightning nearby, followed about four seconds later by thunder. By the time the thunder got there, I was inside and checking which things I would need to unplug to isolate my computer gear. The answer is "Just about everything." I'll be optimizing that in just a few minutes.
Anyway, in spite of having no connection to any outside circuits, I'm still able to post online. Why? Because I'm using Wi-Fi, and a lightning strike that fries my $50 router won't fry the other $800 of gear I have on my desk because they aren't physically connected. This would be the unheralded advantage, by the way.
I'm not too worried, just a touch paranoid. I think there are a lot of buildings nearby with lightning rods, which are a rather fearsome thing to actually look at up close, if you ask me. I think it's because you know what it's for, maybe. In any case, Jusco has twenty to thirty 10m rods on their roof. I think that's cool.
An ambulance just drove by.
Anyway, in spite of having no connection to any outside circuits, I'm still able to post online. Why? Because I'm using Wi-Fi, and a lightning strike that fries my $50 router won't fry the other $800 of gear I have on my desk because they aren't physically connected. This would be the unheralded advantage, by the way.
I'm not too worried, just a touch paranoid. I think there are a lot of buildings nearby with lightning rods, which are a rather fearsome thing to actually look at up close, if you ask me. I think it's because you know what it's for, maybe. In any case, Jusco has twenty to thirty 10m rods on their roof. I think that's cool.
An ambulance just drove by.
posted by William at
6/21/2008 06:55:00 PM
5 Comments:
Thunderstorms are generally cool, but that one sounds scary!
Hey, when good weather returns, would you take a picture of the lighting rods on Jusco or upload one/some if you already have some? That would be interesting.
Not really. It lasted about five minutes.
Oh, well...it sounded dramatic when you described it, so....
It wasn't meant to. I'll work on that.
Heh. Actually, you made it sound like a really cool and interesting storm --- so if you didn't mean to do that, perhaps (and your writing is nice anyway, so perhaps you should anyway) write other stuffs, also.
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