Martha wrote, in part: > Such a sweet and funny guy, always had a good sense of humor
Indeed. About 20 years ago, Dave and I were doing something for some customer in NJ-I forget the details, doesn't matter. Anyway, I was driving up, he was flying to EWR, and we were going to be there a couple of nights. For the first night, I tracked down a motel halfway between the airport and the customer's place and booked us in. Remember, this was before Yelp and Google Streetview and all that. When we got there, we kind of looked at each other, like "Um, is this place safe?" but we went to our rooms and agreed on a meeting time for tomorrow. The next morning I was out a few minutes early, so I brought the car around front to settle up and wait for Dave. As I did so, I watched a steady stream of cars pulling up with a woman in the passenger seat and a man going into the lobby and emerging with a key. Yeah, that kind of motel. The next night we were in a chain motel, somewhat better. But this was still the early days of hotel broadband-before Wi-Fi-and when we checked in, the clerk said "I only have one room left with Internet". Dave graciously said "No problem, I'm not going to use it", so I took that room. I head up to the room and go to set up. The modem is sitting there-with no power cord. So I call down to the desk. A few minutes later, knock on door; I open it and guy hands me.an extension cord. No, no, I need a POWER cord. He leaves, returns a few minutes later with.an Ethernet cable. By this point it's time to meet for dinner, so I tell him I'll deal with it, head down and talk to the desk. When we get back from dinner, there's a power cord and wallwart sitting there, so I plug in and start trying to connect. Laptop can't see the modem. I turn to check it.and there's smoke coming out of the top. Turns out they gave me *a* power supply, with a plug that fit, but a higher voltage than the modem wanted or could handle. So no Internet for me. Dave was his usual equanimical self about it, made it a running joke: "Don't let Phil play travel agent"!! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
