[G5] OT -- funny thing happened to my wife today

[Steve Goldstein]

Background:
She was an IT professional before retiring, using mostly Windows NT 
or UNIX-based machines, but always with somebody else as the 
sysadmin.  At home, I had given her an older Win NT box to use, and 
when the power supply gave out  and I offered to get her a new PC, 
she asked to use the Cube that I had stored down in the basement (on 
semi-permanent loan from one of my old projects and really not my 
property) rather than spend money on a new machine.  I was delighted, 
as it is easier for me to administer a Mac than any PC ever made. 
So, she learned Mac OS X on the Cube, and she became pretty 
proficient with it.  As of late the Cube kept freezing up, so I 
bought her an iMac G5 for her birthday, and the Cube is packed up and 
back in the basement storage.  (Aside--the Cube may have been OK, 
after all; 50-50 chance that it was a bad mouse that was doing the 
freezing up!?!?)

The true story:
So, today, during a storm, the electricity flickered, and she does 
not have an UPS (she hates to clutter up her office), and her iMac 
turned off.  She came to me (I'm now her sysadmin) and told me that 
the iMac probably went POOF! with the flickering, and it was a good 
thing that we saved the box that it came in so that we could return 
it for service.  I asked her to check all the plugs and to make sure 
that the reset/breaker in the surge protector had not popped out. 
After she reported that all was OK, I went in to take a look, and I 
just restarted the iMac with no trouble.  She watched in awe and 
asked, "How did you do that?"  So, I showed her the raised dimple 
on/off button in the back.  "Oh, my gosh," she reddened, "I thought 
it was just like the Cube where you hold your finger over the pulsing 
light to turn it on."  [ Honest-Abe--I had shown this to her when I 
first surprised her with the iMac. ]

That's my story, and I am sticking to it!

--Steve