> 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
