BART cars have power outlets! Who knew!

Perhaps everyone. But it was news to me as I found myself in a coding groove this afternoon while waiting to take the BART back from the east bay. Why go straight home and spoil it? So from Walnut Creek I went east, to Pittsburg/Bay Point, and then south, to Fremont, and then north to Richmond before heading home to SF. In Fremont I asked the conductor - after my laptop's battery died and I contemplated the long ride back with nothing to do - whether there were power outlets on the train.

"Yep!" he said. "Right underneath the middle seats in each car."
Really?
"Yep. Though you probably don't want to plug anything you love into them. Since we might get a power surge. Fine for charging a cell phone, though."

I gambled that my Macbook Pro's power adapter, which at least has 110/220v capability for world travel, would be a suitable buffer between any surging currents and the precious shiny laptop. And it was. Two more hours of relaxing intercounty travel resulted in a hundred-ish lines of good solid Objective-C.