12 July 05
You Know It's Time To Go Home
...when at 5:20 in the afternoon all power to the building goes out and you’re left feeling around the partition in the windowless cave of your office for the emergency flashlight. Meanwhile, all around you UPS battery backups are shrieking insistently, not that they do your own computer any good.
It’s gotten quite hot here—tomorrow it should be in the hundreds.
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