What do you do when the network is down?

On Tuesday afternoon, the network went down at work... we were discussing how dependent we are on having network access... I suggested that maybe we should get out the "Shave Ice" machine and make shave ice to "celebrate" how hot it is and to have something to do in the heat and without the network... but... how would we let folks on campus know about the shave ice being served without the network?

So... thoughts that we came up with:

• Get carrier pigeons and attach smaller versions of the announcement type-signs that airplanes tow behind them letting folks know about shave ice being available.
• But... it is so hot, that most folks are inside, so they wouldn't see the pigeons flying around outside, so, we'd need the pigeons to go to the windows of the buildings and peck on the windows... then we would need to put signs around the necks of the pigeons alerting the folks when they looked out at the pigeon that there was shave ice being provided!
• Another suggestion: so many of the folks here on campus have served in places around the world where they are disconnected from phones or networks, and yet, the people in the villages are able to send messages to people in another village that is over the mountain or down by the shore -- through some sort of signaling devices. We should schedule classes where those of us who have *not* been to these places are taught how to send and understand smoke signals or making sounds with horns or whatever to communicate to people who are at a distance away!

Uhm, well, that's what we did while we were unable to access the computer tools or applications that we needed to use to do our jobs! You can't say that we aren't creative!