That's the Way It Crumbles, Cookie-Wise

[Mary Stetler]

Woke up this morning to find out there had been another power outage overnight. Both pc's shut down. Boot up. Everything is ok for an hour or so, then no internet service. Checked everything. An hour or so after that I get a cell phone text message from AT&T asking if I want them to run a test. Ran the test. Everything is working again, so far. This is getting weird.

At least the satellite TV is still working. If I had switched to streaming TV, I might have had to do something useful today.

Edit to add... A previous text message I didn't notice said there was an internet outage in this area. But both pcs had shut down so it must have also been a power outage. Probably another tree problem.

Well, my daughter's phone was out. That is how she gets internet .
My phone was out too with a different provider. (No reason given) I have a lined phone but that is with my internet provider. I kind of wish I had not moved from AT&T but I only had local service with my cell as a back up and they kept upping the price (probably to get me off the old line ; )
It is like in the disaster movies where the satellites go down and only the old technology phones are working. Finding one at this point would be harder than 20 years ago. No one knows anyone's phone numbers any more. No more phone books... would probably take me 20 minutes to get to the farm after an EMP instead of 5 minutes. These little interruptions make me aware of different types of preparedness.
I keep remembering a guy at the battery store who brought in his phone for repair and they said they would have to send it out and it might be back next week. He practically threw a temper tantrum on the floor!

 

[Nancy Hart]

I've been playing around a lot with Google A.I. lately.

When my parents first moved to Florida, there was an old commercial chicken house on the next block. The current property owners kept a large flock of guinea fowl. These guineas would break into cackling at any hour of the night or day. It would start with just a few. As more birds joined in it would reach a loud fever pitch of cackling, then die out rather abruptly.

I Googled guinea fowl behavior out of curiosity to make sure I didn't dream this, because it was 40+ years ago. Guinea owners say something as simple as moving a familiar item to a different place in their pen could upset them and start a cackling episode. Various other descriptions reminded me of some previous internet forums (not HQ). Just for fun, I asked Google A.I. what it thought.

Compare a social media forum with a flock of guineas.

A.I.'s Initial Response. (A deeper dive is even more interesting)
"Comparing a social media forum to a flock of guineas reveals striking similarities in behavior, communication, and social structure. Both are characterized by high-volume chatter, collective movement, and chaotic responses to perceived threats or anomalies.

 

[Joe Riley]

I've been playing around a lot with Google A.I. lately.

When my parents first moved to Florida, there was an old commercial chicken house on the next block. The current property owners kept a large flock of guinea fowl. These guineas would break into cackling at any hour of the night or day. It would start with just a few. As more birds joined in it would reach a loud fever pitch of cackling, then die out rather abruptly.

I Googled guinea fowl behavior out of curiosity to make sure I didn't dream this, because it was 40+ years ago. Guinea owners say something as simple as moving a familiar item to a different place in their pen could upset them and start a cackling episode. Various other descriptions reminded me of some previous internet forums (not HQ). Just for fun, I asked Google A.I. what it thought.

Compare a social media forum with a flock of guineas.

A.I.'s Initial Response. (A deeper dive is even more interesting)
"Comparing a social media forum to a flock of guineas reveals striking similarities in behavior, communication, and social structure. Both are characterized by high-volume chatter, collective movement, and chaotic responses to perceived threats or anomalies.

So true!.......not ours, though!

 

[Nancy Hart]

Well, my daughter's phone was out. That is how she gets internet .
My phone was out too with a different provider. (No reason given) I have a lined phone but that is with my internet provider. I kind of wish I had not moved from AT&T but I only had local service with my cell as a back up and they kept upping the price (probably to get me off the old line ; )
It is like in the disaster movies where the satellites go down and only the old technology phones are working. Finding one at this point would be harder than 20 years ago. No one knows anyone's phone numbers any more. No more phone books... would probably take me 20 minutes to get to the farm after an EMP instead of 5 minutes. These little interruptions make me aware of different types of preparedness.
I keep remembering a guy at the battery store who brought in his phone for repair and they said they would have to send it out and it might be back next week. He practically threw a temper tantrum on the floor!

I missed this, Mary. We were posting at the same time.

Prior to fiber, I had DSL. It used the old copper phone lines. Always going down, and AT&T was slow to repair on purpose I think to try and get everyone to ditch the land lines. Fiber here is strung up on poles also. This is the first time it's gone down in years, that I know of. They were very quick to fix it according to the text messages.

I have a landline phone through the internet. Used it every time I called somewhere where they wanted you to enter numbers, cause I'd always kill the connection trying to fiddle with the cell phone. Still use it at least once a week, on average, to find my cell phone in the house. Too many telemarketers to keep the phone on the hook. I should get rid of it.

 

[Mary Stetler]

I missed this, Mary. We were posting at the same time

Prior to fiber, I had DSL. It used the old copper phone lines. Always going down, and AT&T was slow to repair on purpose I think to try and get everyone to ditch the land lines. Fiber here is strung up on poles also. This is the first time it's gone down in years, that I know of. They were very quick to fix it according to the text messages.

I have a landline phone through the internet. Used it every time I called somewhere where they wanted you to enter numbers, cause I'd always kill the connection trying to fiddle with the cell phone. Still use it at least once a week, on average, to find my cell phone in the house. Too many telemarketers to keep the phone on the hook. I should get rid of it.

I picked up Vtech phone. It plugs into the computer modem and screens calls. I can carry the handset to wherever I am.

Amazon.com

 

[Nancy Hart]

I picked up Vtech phone. It plugs into the computer modem and screens calls. I can carry the handset to wherever I am.

How many times does it ring if you don't pick up? More important, what do you use to find your handset when you forget where you took it?