> On Feb 18, 2021, at 9:04 PM, Jen Linkova <furr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 9:40 AM Warren Kumari <war...@kumari.net> wrote:
>> 4: Not too long after I started doing networking (and for the same small ISP 
>> in Yonkers), I'm flying off to install a new customer. I (of course) think 
>> that I'm hot stuff because I'm going to do the install, configure the 
>> router, whee, look at me! Anyway, I don't want to check a bag, and so I 
>> stuff the Cisco 2501 in a carryon bag, along with tools, etc (this was all 
>> pre-9/11!). I'm going through security and the TSA[0] person opens my bag 
>> and pulls the router out. "What's this?!" he asks. I politely tell him that 
>> it's a router. He says it's not. I'm still thinking that I'm the new 
>> hotness, and so I tell him in a somewhat condescending way that it is, and I 
>> know what I'm talking about. He tells me that it's not a router, and is 
>> starting to get annoyed. I explain using my "talking to a 5 year old" voice 
>> that it most certainly is a router. He tells me that lying to airport 
>> security is a federal offense, and starts looming at me. I adjust my 
>> attitude and start explaining that it's like a computer and makes the 
>> Internet work. He gruffly hands me back the router, I put it in my bag and 
>> scurry away. As I do so, I hear him telling his colleague that it wasn't a 
>> router, and that he certainly knows what a router is, because he does 
>> woodwork...
> 
> OK, Warren, achievement unlocked. You've just made a network engineer
> to google 'router'....
> 
> P.S. I guess I'm obliged to tell a story if I respond to this thread...so...
> "Servers and the ice cream factory".
> Late spring/early summer in Moscow. The temperature above 30C (86°F).
> I worked for a local content provided.
> Aircons in our server room died, the technician ETA was 2 days ( I
> guess we were not the only ones with aircon problems).
> So we drove to the nearby ice cream factory  and got *a lot* of  dry
> ice. Then we have a roaster: every few hours one person took a deep
> breath, grabbed a box of dry ice, ran into the server room and emptied
> the box on top of the racks. The backup person was watching through
> the glass door - just in case, you know, ready to start the rescue
> operation.
> We (and the servers) survived till the technician arrived. And we had
> a lot of dry ice to cool the beer..
> 
> -- 
> SY, Jen Linkova aka Furry

During a wood-working project for the Southern California Linux Expo (the tech 
team that
(among other things) runs the network for the show was building new equipment 
carts), I
came up with the following meme:



[I don’t know if NANOG will pass the image despite its small size, so textual 
description:
A bandaged hand with the index finger amputated at the second knuckle with 
overlaid red
text stating “Carless Routing May Lead to Urgent Test of Self Healing Network”]

Fortunately, we didn’t have any such issues with the router, though we did have 
one person
suffer a crushed toe from a cabinet tip-over. Fortunately, the person made a 
full recovery.

Owen

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