On 6/5/03 8:18 AM, "Joost van de Griek" <joost at jvdg.net> wrote (edited for length): > On 2003-06-05 14:12, Meg St. Clair wrote: > >> Um, what is "dirt electricity?" > > Dirty electricity is when the AC current delivered to your house isn't a > nice, pure sine wave, in other words, it contains voltage spikes or dips. > > ,xtG > .tsooJ Thanks, Joost. Although I doubt I could draw a sine wave if my life depended upon it, I think I get it. The embarrassing part is that my dad's an electrician. Thanks, Meg -- 700 MHz iBook (June 02) OS X 10.2.4 384 meg RAM