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Fantastic word game

Until everyone else gets back here we'll still be keeping watch over the network nodes on the east coast (which, as you all know, is power-world-03 land) but there really shouldn't (and in all likelihood won't) be any real trouble with the network as a whole, and users can still log in regardless of where they are since the FWG University/Powerworld Computer Services Network (or FWGUPCSN, if you prefer) is a decentralised and redundant architecture.

[size=8pt]Which, for the uninitiated, means that if you can't log in on your node on power-world-03, you can always log in on wgnet (hint: try guvax) and work from it. Even if push came to shove and that dark day comes when the whole wgnet/p-w-03 busses decide to take a dump, the moscow, dublin, vienna and (I think) calgary nodes on satbus also maintain copies of the workfile database, so logins are also possible on those machines. (See also http://mistman.pdp10.org/pub/filebox/fwg/wgzoo/pwmap.txt and http://mistman.pdp10.org/pub/filebox/fwg/wgzoo/system-list.txt)

See, that's why the network is accessible 24 hours/7 days. Probably the only way it could be rendered completely inaccessible would be to take the whole thing down completely, and even that'd be difficult to accomplish given the redundancy some of the individual nodes themselves have......

But that's another lecture in itself.
 
The FWG University/Powerworld Computer Services Network (or FWGUPCSN, if you prefer) is a decentralised and redundant architecture which is good news because I didn't know that so I'm happy you popped on to tell me that, Darth, because it also gives us an opportunity to bump us back to the top of the page because Yeziknoradio is doing his very best to keep us down.
 
Yeziknoradio is doing his very best to keep us down by commenting on everything on the "off the air" board including bringing back old stale topics.
 
Bringing back old stale topics is something Yez does very well but we won't let that get in our way of being the number one thread on Radio Discussions.

Time for Dave & Kenny to rock out to the 80s tonight at Illusios except Dave hasn't been around all day. He may be preparing for a hurricane so you are going solo tonight, Kenny. If you need me, yell.
 
The number one thread on Radio Discussions will always be TFWG (or The FWG as some prefer) as long as Radio Discussions continues to exist.


Getting ready to rock the house down at Illusions, Dave hasn't arrived yet, and I'm prepared to do it alone and I will yell if I need help, maybe Marc and Rodent will come in tonight and I'll get them to help.
 
As long as Radio Discussions continues to exist we will try to avoid being under PowerWorld's wgnet/p-w-03 busses when they take a dump.
 
When they take a dump during the night, the little band campers can always find their ways back to their beds because we always keep the nightlights on and dorm attendants are on duty 24/7 if they do get lost.

Nice to see you Miss Silkie. I trust you've been cooking up batches of good stuff to keep the band camp hurricane shelters stocked.
 
Dorm attendants are on duty 24/7 if they do get lost, thanks to the contingency plans we have in place whenever we learn that the secret meteorological cabal of band camp alumnus, GWB, has cranked up their arctic tropical wild west sno-cone maker in bizarre locations.

We need to check on all systems, as a 7.7 magnitude earthquake has hit near the IT Director's stomping grounds. In fact it appears two have struck. Guess the cabal's earthquake machine is in overdrive too. ;)
 
Bizarre locations for radio listening abound in these parts of the country, mainly due to the weird foothill terrain around here.

[size=8pt]Where and when, Miss Silkie? If there's actually been an earthquake around here, this is the first I'm hearing about it.

Everything is still running favourably. You sure it was the northwestern US?
 
The weird football terrain around here is pretty shaky if you are in the British Columbia area at all.

Darth_vader, it was on the weather channel a little while ago. A second one too, unless it was canned. Tsunami warnings also have gone out.
 
At all times the proper clues must be repeated word for word, up to and including not mistaking the word "football" for "foothill".

[size=8pt]Well, if it's up in BC, it's at least 100 miles from the closest nodes (Seattle and Calgary). That must be why we're not reporting anything out of the ordinary from either of those sites.

In fact, I think the border itself is probably about 200 miles from here, for that matter...
 
Broadcast of the Emergency Alert System (EAS as most prefer) goes out on KFWG and WFWG every 15 minutes during severe weather.

quad, how's things in your neck of the woods?
 
Severe weather is a great time for radio to show what it's all about.

Nothing too bad here, WMC. I don't even think we've got rain yet, unless it was before 8am and evaporated. Coast apparently got hit much worse than we did (75 miles inland, thankfully in situations like this). It's barely a "hurricane" now but I'm glad I'm not in the middle of any of it, no matter how gentle it was.
 
Everyone is planning their hurricane parties unless they are evacuating in advance of the storm or already cleaning up from the storm.

I'll be holding down the night shift here at the main band camp campus. Quite a few families are here for shelter with more expected to come in. Miss Silkie has the cafeteria well stocked. The lovely library interns are helping out with that while much of the administrative staff is volunteering with the kids. Darth tells me everything is good from his end.
 
Where I live we are prepping to lose power for a few days but since my house sits on a hill and we are far from the coast flooding is one thing I won't have to worry about.
 


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