[jwiv]

Re: grammar police

[Slyfox]

Re: grammar police

[jwiv]

rose wrote:

Quote: G's Mom called and said she's OK, she's home, and she's exhausted and going to bed. She'll fill us in tomorrow, she only told me that 'he's not a happy camper.' I'm not real sympathetic at the moment. I'm glad she is fine. I was worried they would start out the crises with Grace separated from her Mom. [This is probably based on my experiences with the blackout, where I couldn't locate my son for a whole day - even though I knew he was with friends, they didn't have a non-cordless phone so I couldn't reach anyone. Something to have in a blackout - a regular plug into the wall landline phone. Here in New York the phone landlines are underground so they don't go out if the power does. In other places I've lived the phones go out when the electricity does in a storm because they are on the same poles, so if poles are knocked out, both the phone and electricity go. If the oil crises cuts electricity, landline phones should generally be working. Not sure how that works, I just know that landlines worked during the blackout and (for the places I was in) September 11th.] I think I read on one of the live journal blogs that they have located some massive backup generators so they can stay online during the crises. I think this was part of their planning, so they can be in touch with the world. I remember the live journal of the guys who stayed through Katrina and kept their part of the net up, it was gripping reading, I can't find the link now though. You know, I think that the California power supply problems of a few years ago, the rolling brownouts, etc. were caused by the actions of the Enron traders. (yeah, hard to believe that happened, but there are actual recordings of the traders making the trades and sending energy out to the desert.) I wonder if some sort of major embargo, control of supply issue will cause the end of supply of oil?

http://interdictor.livejournal.com/ was the blog during Katrina.

As to why the phone works, basically a very small electrical charge is transmitted down the copper pairs to your house in order to generate tone and transmit voice.

[lirath]

grammar police

[rose]

Quote:

What does "He's been on the lam from his company" mean?

I think she means that he is running from them and hiding, like a criminal would who is evading the law. He sounds scared too.

I think that the idea of this post is to convey how upset she is, which may be why she made errors with apostrophes and misspelled embezzled.

[Slyfox]

What does "He's been on the lam from his company" mean?

Also, the use of the apostrophe is a bit shaky at times.

Is imbezzled a word?

[rose]

Quote:

G's Mom called and said she's OK, she's home, and she's exhausted and going to bed. She'll fill us in tomorrow, she only told me that 'he's not a happy camper.' I'm not real sympathetic at the moment.

I'm glad she is fine. I was worried they would start out the crises with Grace separated from her Mom.

[This is probably based on my experiences with the blackout, where I couldn't locate my son for a whole day - even though I knew he was with friends, they didn't have a non-cordless phone so I couldn't reach anyone. Something to have in a blackout - a regular plug into the wall landline phone. Here in New York the phone landlines are underground so they don't go out if the power does. In other places I've lived the phones go out when the electricity does in a storm because they are on the same poles, so if poles are knocked out, both the phone and electricity go. If the oil crises cuts electricity, landline phones should generally be working. Not sure how that works, I just know that landlines worked during the blackout and (for the places I was in) September 11th.]

I think I read on one of the live journal blogs that they have located some massive backup generators so they can stay online during the crises. I think this was part of their planning, so they can be in touch with the world.

I remember the live journal of the guys who stayed through Katrina and kept their part of the net up, it was gripping reading, I can't find the link now though.

You know, I think that the California power supply problems of a few years ago, the rolling brownouts, etc. were caused by the actions of the Enron traders. (yeah, hard to believe that happened, but there are actual recordings of the traders making the trades and sending energy out to the desert.) I wonder if some sort of major embargo, control of supply issue will cause the end of supply of oil?

[DarthBunny]

nico = NiCo?

link from yuckymuck del.icio.us takes you to: http://www.mines.edu/Research/PTTC/newsletters/volume%202/v2n4p4.html

entitled: Interview with Brook Phifer, NiCo Oil and Gas, LLC and Director of the Rocky Mountain Region PAG

or NiCo = 'his company'?

coincidence? seems oog, just odd

[Stax]

New post from gracesmominnh on the wwo lj blog.

Quote:

Apr. 26th, 2007 Nico's story mood: guilty I don't know if I can remember everything he told me but I'll try to get all the important stuff down. He's been on the lam from his company hiding somewhere in Maine. Hes on the run because they are tracking him. They claim he imbezzled money but he says its because he told us what he did and they are mad. I dont understand it all something to do with OPEC and price supports and what he called "milking the old cow dry". He has more info but he needs something in return. The company siezed all his assets, he has nothing but the clothes on his back and a small bag. He uses public internet when he can find it. He wants money from us (8tsoc). We "owe" him. If we hadnt posted that picture (sorry Pachinko!) they would never of connected it to him. There is more to the story that we dont know yet and he will tell us if we help him. He will be in touch with me later to see if we agree but he cant stay in one place long so he's on the road again. He doesnt want us to post any more details about him because the company will track him down. I have told Gala and Yucky the rest of it, but please, dont press us for details yet. Tom and I gave him what money we had but he says its not enough. I feel so guilty now. Hes in trouble because he tried to warn us and we totally blew it. I think we should help him now.

[Slyfox]

I want a pre-game puzzle! :sigh: Sometimes this works

[DarthBunny]

redhatty mentioned aliens?

http://www.panix.com/~danielc/world/calvin.htm linked from mPathyTest del.icio.us ( http://del.icio.us/mpathytest ).

no deeper meaning here, i think - altho i choose to recognise it as evidence for the alien theory, because, why not?

and I like calvin & hobbes

[thomas.]

Ah right, didn't really think THAT far into it to be honest.

There is still the possibility that there'll be some sort of blackout in the areas where the characters are?

[jwiv]

thomas. wrote:

what happens if the disaster causes the loss of the internet as a useful tool for communication? I'm thinking that might be a strong possibility at some point, maybe involving some snail mail or phone calls or something similar...

Short form is this is unlikely. I go into more depth on this in LJ, but basically it's an unlikely scenario - even in Katrina one of the local shops managed to keep themselves online through careful preparation and making some quick friends with access to fuel drums.

What's more likely is that if you connect to a smaller/local ISP that is on commericial power they will be affected by the same rolling outages and other such things that would affect you.

[thomas.]

what happens if the disaster causes the loss of the internet as a useful tool for communication?

I'm thinking that might be a strong possibility at some point, maybe involving some snail mail or phone calls or something similar...

[OrangeForAHead]

http://www.worldwithoutoil.org/teach/

[Edit] Nevermind, that was linked off of the myspace. I found it through google so I thought it was news.