Oh yes, I love laptops

I'm at the Tea Garden, finishing up my paper on missing data methods for social sciences data. The power just went out - the lights went out, the stereo stopped, and a hush fell over the building. My home machine isn't responding to pings, so I'm guessing that it was the whole neighborhood.

A laptop with a battery is just like a desktop with a UPS. Power failures are an annoyance, not a catastrophe.

Interestingly, Xcel Energy doesn't have outage info on their website. My ISP does - what is Xcel ashamed of?