Heed my words

[e_pepys]

Suddenly all was darkness. Life and hope and Battlestar Galactica had been snuffed from our lives. So I went out in search of a better land where power flowed from every wall, and light was so common as to be unremarkable. In short, a land with Wifi. And coffee

Comments

[parrot_knight]

So we should all turn an internet cafe into a mini-state?

[e_pepys]

Sounds a good plan to me. As long as we pick the same Cafe. If BSG has taught me anything, it is that even if adversity we still form local cliques and point lots of guns at each other.

I'm in Costa Coffee on the Cowley Road. Maybe I should look down the road to see if power has been restored, but I'm happy here now. (Just thought: all I have to do is ping my router to test for power. See, WiFi is a gift from the Lords of Kobol!)

[celestialweasel]

It is no more mad a plan than the one Libertarians had to move en mass to New Hampshire to influence politics there.

[zengineer]

Wasn't Barry Goldwater from Arizona? What happened to that plan?

[jinty]

heh heh! I wouldn't even have known about the power cut if Dan hadn't told me - he ventured out and spotted dark streets all past East Avenue or thereabouts.

[brightlywoven]

There's a power cut? Sucks. We got 3 in a fortnight last April, because they were trying to hook power up to a new block of flats down the road. I believe exactlyhalf resorted to playing Civ (the boardgame) by torchlight.

[elleblue]

Ooh.. did it get as far back as your house, then? When I went out to collect my bike from the repair shop, I noticed everything along Cowley Road between East Ave and Magdalen Road seemed to be out, but a little way down Magdalen Road it was fine. My block seems to be just at the edge of darkness, but on the side of light. Cafe Baba's was the only place that seemed to have any significant light along that whole stretch, and that was only because it's got candles on all the tables anyway :-P

[e_pepys]

It was quite spooky standing in the light on Cowley Road and looking down the dark Randolf Street. Here be dragons.

Power's back now.

[smallbeasts]

Apparently the power cut is the latest in a series. Maybe Southern Electric haven't paid their protection money.

[celestialweasel]

Ooh, more high tech than I expected. When we were travelling round California, outside the big cities there were lots of billboards from power / phone companies saying don't nick the copper cables!