Cats and Spiders, Ha ! I was involved with the construction of a radio telescope in the Spitzbergen settlement of Ny Alesund, Norway (78 degrees 56 minutes north).
http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/vlbi/images/telbig/nyales.gif Staff were assigned Colt 45 revolvers because the area was frequented by Polar Bears - up to 400 kilos, able to run faster than a person, and (so I was told) with an annoying habit of appearing between you and the front door if you went to take out the garbage. Just about every year they would get a trekker or two. Reliance Infocomm is installing 80,000 km of fiber in India. I wonder if they have any tiger stories. Marshall On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 21:44:06 -0700 "Aaron Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Since we are on the topic of animal encounters related to being 'on the job'... > > I once worked as a cable installer for the same company I work for today. I was > running a new > cable outlet for a customer in an > older farm house in a rural part of our serving area. This big old farm house had a > lot of cats > at one time or another, as I was > about to find out. I entered the crawlspace, which was quite spacious as far as > crawl spaces go, > and the opening was large enough I > didn't have to bring my flashlight out right away. As I ventured into the back of > the house, I > started feeling something crunchy, > yet soft, as I crawled in... I reached to my belt for my flash light and had a > look... I was > smack dab in the middle of anywhere > between 200 - 400 bird skeletons and feathers. > > I had a small problem with crawlspaces before then due to a large spider > infestation... But guess > what I think of them now. Can't > get me inside them unless they are brand new. > > My 2 cents > > Aaron > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Brunner-Williams > Sent: July 9, 2004 6:29 AM > To: Deepak Jain > Cc: Richard Welty; nanog list; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: OT: Re: Critters > > > My first daughter's pet rabbit re-wired my apartment network, power and data. > > At SRI in Menlo Park, the squirrels were always keen for that tasty grey cable > whenever it was > run where they could get it. > > I wish I had a moose-and-cable story. Sorry. > > >
