FOB

This morning I went to grab my backup drive from the machine room. You may recall that I have offsite backups via a pair of drives that I swap between home and work periodically.

I unplugged the drive cables and grabbed the drive to take off with it—but it was still kind of stuck in the pile of cables under my desk. I wiggled it around to try to get it untangled, but it wouldn't really let go.

Then I looked down, and realized the drive was not attached to anything. I thought about it for a moment, wiggled it a bit…

…and was reminded that the still spinning-drive made a fine gyroscope. Sure enough, when it spun down a few seconds later, it became "unstuck".

Ain't technology wonderful?