Mindless Fluffiness

Boston

Well I was in boston – boarding the plane,
several folks had cary on boxes of lobsters. It made me wonder, what animals
is it legal to take on a plane as cary on? Clearly you can take bugs, cats, and
dogs. What about scorpions, poisonous snakes ect. And how do the relative risks
of butter knives compare to lobsters? Do the TSA screeners at airports have
biology experts?

Anyway, you can imagine how much better I
feel knowing that only fresh animals are legal.

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Posted by fluffy on May 31, 2005 at 7:04 pm under Travel.
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PSTN, down again

My PSTN phone line has been down since about 10
am this morning. Bizarre thing is that 1) is still how power on the line, just
no dial tone 2) DSL is still up. I did try dialing 911, it did not work. Six
months ago or so it was down for several days.

Update – got fixed and working again
Tuesday evening – downtime was about 56 hours.

If we estimate the MTBF at 5000 hours
and the MTTR at 50 hours, we get a availability of about 99%. I would be
embarrassed if my IP Phone was this flakey.

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Posted by fluffy on May 29, 2005 at 12:26 pm under VoIP.
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