That's funny! On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 11:22 PM Bill Gosper <billgosper@gmail.com> wrote:
PG&E pulled the plug as I stepped into the bathroom to brush my teeth. (60 years ago, in an era of utility civility and iron lungs, power companies tried very hard to avoid interruptions.) [Artifically intelligent GMail will *not* allow me to delete the period it inserted at the beginning of two lines above!! But it hides it while I add recipients!]
Curious to know when the internet might resume, I switched on the bathroom light. But then I remembered that you sometimes have to flick that switch multiple of times, thanks to gypsy electricianship, and figured I couldn't be sure 'til I got back to my laptop. Why was that stupid? SPOILER: StringReverse@".eldarc gnigrahc sti ni ti decalper I nehw ffo tuhs dluow hsurbhtoot cirtcele ym ,demuser rewop fI" —rwg