Klosekraft: Ah, sweet, sweet internet

People, I was without internet access here at the office for MORE THAN THREE HOURS today.

It was AWFUL.

I had so much to say. Like this:

I was waiting for the subway sort of late one night last week. I had just missed a train so I was alone on the platform except for one guy who had asked me for the time, then whether I'm Russian and then whether I'm Italian (or possibly whether I was tired; he wasn't so big on enunciation), at which point I smiled politely and went back to my book and he wandered off.

Eventually, I looked up to see two uniformed NYC police officers ambling down the platform, one in his late 40s, I'd guess and the other in his 20s, both pretty heavy guys and unfortunately porcine in aspect. They stopped in front of this ad:

and stood there looking at it without speaking for a good solid 30 seconds, I'd say. Then the older cop said, completely deadpan, "You think you could hang with them?" and the younger cop replied, equally deadpan, "Oh yeah, I had all those years of training at Juilliard." And then they turned and kept walking down the platform.