Awake now

[james_davis_nicoll]

Turned on my laptop, it ran for a bit and then went black. Totally unresponsive.

Took me a while to notice someone had in a fit of safety consciousness disconnected my laptop power cord. The little old lady I help take care of worries that plugged in electronics will burst into fire so she sometimes disconnects stuff.

At least it wasn't an external drive mid-backup.

Comments

[patrick_morris_miller]

I was told back in the Nineties that a janitor did the same thing in the Tulsa county morgue, except with the dead guy refrigeration system. The only thing that I doubt about that is a DGRS using an accessible, compatible plug.

I have half-joked about putting a sign by the plug to the office coffee engine saying that anyone who unplugs it will answer to Juan Valdez.

[dormouse1953]

I had to look that up. Not a name I'm familiar with. Don't think the brand name is used in the UK.

[patrick_morris_miller]

Less a brand and more an industry mascot, sort of like the California Raisins (damn, I'm old).