Warm, wet. Supposed to be clear. Didn’t stay clear around here yesterday though. The overcast came and went but mostly came and stayed. No precip that I noticed at the house.
I did do a little bit of prep for the hamfest. Not nearly as much as I wanted to, it was too stinking hot and damp and it was triggering my allergies. So I found other stuff to do.
I imagine today will be very similar. I’m not even going to make any other predictions, I’ll just play it by ear with the idea of a hint of a goal somewhere in mind. Perhaps if I just go with the flow?
I did find stuff in the stacks I’d forgotten about.
It’s important to check and re-stack so you know both what you have and what condition it’s in…
so that when you stack more, it’s the right stuff. You are stacking more, right?
n
Selling books and keeping “Dilbert” relevant. Plus, YouTube cash, but I imagine in his case it isn’t a big part of his income.
“Dilbert’s” glory days were 20 years ago. And I speak from first-hand experience that the middle management at PacBell whose antics fueled the strip’s best material ultimately “won bigly”.
They’ve run AT&T for the last 14 years and are retiring extremely wealthy.
https://dilbert.com/strip/2023-02-26
And Comcast has a fair share of those folks as well, the cable company having been briefly part of Legacy AT&T ~ 22 years ago, back when WorldCom Ponzi was the darling of Wall Street.
Bob would say you were “clutching pearls” if he wanted to affect as “gay intellectual” to win the debate.
Ah, the legacy of the Wayans family and “In Living Color”. They definitely couldn’t do that show today.
I’m reading rumors that Uncle Festerman is so close to brain death he can’t even take care of himself. We’ll know for sure if he is wheeled in for Senate votes.
How long can a Senator not attend Congress before he is impeached or replaced. I’m sure the Dumbocrats are pressuring the PA Governor to “be ready.”
The Grand Kleagle had to be rolled into the room to vote for Obamacare since even Reconciliation involved letting some Senators vote ‘no’ and deals were cut.
Byrd circled the drain for most of that year.
Now do Biden.
I actually watched some television last night.
Finished an episode of Perry Mason, then watched an episode of Midsomer Murders from season 2. I didn’t start watching the show early and haven’t been dutiful over more than twenty years. Recently I stumbled across a retrospective on the show and mention was made of Richard Briers doing a guest appearance.
For those not familiar, MS is a British murder mystery series featuring a detective chief inspector and his right-hand man that solve crimes in the fictional English county of Midsomer. It is formulaic in that the crimes occur in small villages, the investigation is always hindered by generations of bad behavior, lies and deceit, and the current residents have their own secrets to keep covered, usually including affairs and infidelity. And the hallmark characteristic is that there are always three bizarre murders before enough evidence is revealed to get by the confusion and red herrings.
The original theme music for the series is done with a theremin, and each episode featured additional unique scoring. When the artist passed the instrument was changed to violin.
Series premiered in 1997. The original DCI was Tom Barnaby played by John Nettles. He retired in 2014 and was replaced by Neil Dudgeon as John Barnaby, Tom’s younger cousin. Striking family resemblance.
In typical British fashion this series has a short and irregular season–typically 4-8 episodes–so the entire run has about 140episodes over 25 seasons. Most are available to stream as well as DVD and Bluray.
Sounds like half of the programming on BBC One. 🙂
As much as I joke about “Death in Paradise”, I am fond of the series. I skipped ahead to the season finale this weekend to see if the lead is going to change again only to discover that I spoiled a story arc which built from the Christmas special through the entire run of episodes this Winter.
Gotta pull the shows for upcoming Spring conference travel and settle kharma later.
If you haven’t seen it already, run “Hot Fuzz”. As with all Edgar Wright flicks, there are several movies playing out simultaneously during the running time if you pay attention, and one inside of “Hot Fuzz” is a loving nod to the Edward Woodward “Wickerman”, right down to Simon Pegg’s uniform and Woodward himself as the evil mastermind running things behind the scenes — his last performance IIRC.
Plus “Hot Fuzz” is extremely funny with a killer comic performance by Timothy Dalton. Who knew?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj4QvsIPqSI
Couldn’t imagine two series budgets that were more different. STNG started five years later when Cheers was a huge perennial hit. By that time Cheers had the typical salary demands of a hit show in spades. OTOH Cheers had the advantage of a virtual one-set production and zero special effects. STNG was all about special effects, had huge set budgets, and much lower salaries due to the ever-present option of sending a character down “Red Shirt Avenue” as they did Denise Crosby.
STNG had the best possible situation for scripts, with dozens if not hundreds of good writers that wanted to be involved. Roddenberry managed to screw that up in short order, with the departure of David Gerrold and DC Fontana being the canaries. Over seven seasons I’d hesitate to guess how many repetitions of Wesley ex machina (packed into only 4 of 7) and malfunctioning holodeck we were treated to. Combined with the laughable “we don’t use money” mantra it’s a legacy of mostly bad writing.
ADDED:
and violating the Prime Directive.
Another vote for “Hot Fuzz” here.
Dalton as the Nazi spy in “The Rocketeer” foreshadowed his HF appearance.
“Cheers” was all actors salaries, but they had “Red Shirt Avenue” as well, Jay Thomas being the most obvious example.
The case could also be made for Emma Thompson as the first Mrs. Frasier Crane not being brought back in either “Cheers” or “Frasier” once her career took off after “The Tall Guy” and her salary demands became prohibitive.
Shelly Long came in as expensive so I don’t count her.
86F in the sun, when it pokes thru, and windy.
Dang book kept me up half the night before I put it down.
More stuff to do.
Soooooooooo falling behind.
n
Yeah, but no one noticed Dalton in “The Rocketeer” as much as they did Jennifer Connelly’s … assets.
Connelly’s more mature but still hot appearance in “Top Gun: Maverick” stirred up talk about the long-simmering sequel to “The Rocketeer”, but I doubt Disney has the money.
Breaking Cat News: Save The Mask
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2023/02/26
Gross !
I used the same pair of N95 masks from my painting stash for a couple of months during the early days, thinking it would all be over by Labor Day in 2020.
Bzzzt.
Yeah, pandemic. Trump tho.
Now I won’t go back to masking, but I see the Good Germans around Austin still wearing their party allegiance in places like Home Depot, where I’ve never thought a mask made sense in the first place.
Our Lowe’s is worse, with birds nesting in the rafters and expertly flying in and out through the sliding doors.
He can’t be recalled by the state of Pennsylvania. He can be expelled from the Senate by a ⅔ vote and a new senator appointed by the governor until a special election can be held.
STNG: I watched some, not all episodes. It would have been a lot better without Wesley and his mother. Both were pretty pathetic characters.
Nowadays, I find it really difficult to watch TV series. The format is just too forced, and ones intended for commercials have stupid intermediate cliffhangers.
Bob would say you were “clutching pearls” if he wanted to affect as “gay intellectual” to win the debate.
Bob is a troll.
Conventional wisdom in fiction books is to have a minor cliffhanger at the end of a chapter, so the reader keeps on reading. I think you will find that to be common. How many times have you said ‘just one more chapter’ …. and keep on saying that?
Same with TV shows. They want you to continue watching after the commercial. I believe that ratings nowadays also include info on if you watched the entire show. And if you watched it with commercials, or skipped through the commercials via delayed viewing. That detailed info is used by the networks/streamers to help determine if the show will get renewed.
Gates McFadden was sent packing down “Red Shirt Avenue” after the first season when she wanted more money, but after Diana Muldaur proved to have lousy chemistry with the rest of the cast and low appeal to the audience, she was shown the door and McFadden enticed back to finish out the Trek series with what she thought would be a career defining role/Summer gigs as Dr. Caroline Ryan in “Hunt for Red October” and projected sequels.
Blink and you’ll miss her in the movie.
Anne Archer took over as Caroline Ryan in the sequels featuring Harrison Ford.
I liked Dr. Pulaski better than Dr. Beverly. Being all oozy and social like Dr. Bev, well, that Troy’s job.
I watched them every night when I was working in Hollywood in the early nineties. Whatever ep was on the TV. Don’t know why. Nothing better to do I guess.
The stories were lazy (another holodeck story?) the characters were unsympathetic or just pathetic, particularly crusher and son. Jordie? Data? the f-ing borg? Chaka when the rains came? WTAF?
The enemies were contrived, like Bond supervillians, and the whole thing was lifeless, like a wax works.
I don’t think I could last thru an ep now if someone was sitting on my chest.
n
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11789651/How-Nazis-invented-Fanta-Fizzy-drink-created-German-troops-WWII.html
Wasn’t actually ‘nazzis’ but a guy during naazi control of the country.
Is it weird that I always thought of Fanta as a low end brand, one step up from store brands? A brand no one would buy if they could afford anything better?
I’m surprised by its popularity in hispanic markets.
n
Fanta isn’t bad. I like the orange flavor. Getting Fanta is like getting Moxie.
Fanta Grape for me. In a cold can. Not over ice.
Like Radar. Although he preferred Nehi Grape.
ST:TNG; As a career Navy officer, the thing that always bugged me about ST:TNG was that characters hardly ever left. In the actual Navy, people were CONTINUALLY moving on; retiring, being promoted, transferring to the next duty station. We had MONTHLY “Hail and Farewell” parties, because there was always somebody about to leave and new people to introduce.
ST:TNG would have been a better show if they’d had a 4-year rotation; every year, a quarter of the people would be replaced. In season 2, the Enterprise could call at a starbase and meet the people who had been aboard the previous year. Ryker would have been replaced in Season 3, and a new second-in-command would have replaced them. In season 4, we’d see Captain Riker aboard a different ship, and Picard would have been transferred away to do something else.
Want an SF- TV series that DID that? “Babylon Five”. Tight writing, creative situations, and a continual story arc. You didn’t dare miss an episode, because it was continually changing.
Fanta Orange was everywhere in The South when I was growing up. My father distributed Coke syrups for a while in Tampa in the 70s, and he cited Andy Griffith’s breakthrough routine about college football being the reason.
We even had the album at the house, but I didn’t get it. Maybe “big orange drink” was code for a booze thing.
The “Babylon 5” producers fired Claudia Christian (Ivanova) after wrapping the series finale but before the fifth season started filming, which required a delicate modification of the story arc to explain the changes in command of the station near the end.
Michael O’Hare (Commander Sinclair) left the series as a regular after the first season for severe mental illness reasons that no one said much about until after he passed.
Neither departure was part of Straczynski’s original plan, which he floated online in the early 90s trying to get the series picked up. Straczynski was even set to run “Walker, Texas Ranger” when Warner suddenly bought the “Babylon 5” concept.
Fans used to joke that the series was cursed, with so many of the actors having passed young, pretty much eliminating any revival that isn’t a complete reboot similar to “Battlestar Galactica”.
Sure. Just add vodka. If you don’t like the fizz, use Tang.
If vodka and Everclear are about the same price per ounce, it happened once in a while, buy Everclear and use half of the amount you would with vodka.
Lipton use to make iced tea powder with lemon. Similar to Kool-Aid that came with the sugar in the pouch and later in a canister. Make it a little stronger than the directions and add vodka. Cherry Kool-Aid was pretty good.
Mike’s Hard Lemonade is just bottled Country Time Lemonade with vodka.
I always thought that Mike’s was malt liquor for white people without calling it “malt liquor” like Zima.
I’m old enough to remember when malt liquor was marketed more broadly with the “bull” commercials.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN29IovXrBU
Good Lord, Stuart Pankin?!?
Could be. Tastes like Country Time with vodka to me.
Dandy Don used to pitch that iced tea powder. Maybe it fueled many a rendition of “The Party’s Over”.
Claudia wanted to shoot 14 episodes while being paid for 22, due to the fact that she had committed to another series/movie during the interregnum between seasons 4 and 5. Said interregnum was caused by PTEN not really understanding what they’s bought, and wanting to wrap the 5 year arc in 4 years, which meant that JMS had to compress 2 years of main arc stories into one. He did this by cutting all the side stories.
Then when series 5 was picked up, by Turner, IIRC, he resurrected the cut material, which was of lesser importance to the main arc, which led fans to call season 5 weaker – well, it was B story material.
Except for what became 522 “Sleeping in Light”, which was originally shot as 422, and is the only appearance of Ivanova in Season 5.
Source: the Babylon 5 Script books, published by JMS via CafePress, in the notes for “Sleeping in Light”. I have almost all the extant script books and other relevant publications, to the tune of nearly three-and-a-half feet of shelf space.
Yes, I was, and still am, a fan.
G.
And when “B5” aired in the UK. it had the misfortune to air on Channel 4, which did not give it the courtesy of a regular timeslot, which meant close perusal of the schedules, to ensure not missing an episode.
Of course, now I have all the DVDs.
G.
I looked at eBay a while ago and my purchase dispute is on hold for yet another week. I assume the clock was reset when the seller sent a message offering a 50% discount or a return shipping label. Oh yeah, and another tracking number for a package to Canada.
I have no clue what happens when the reversal on my credit card hits their system. This is new territory for me.
Meanwhile. I still need a battery. I looked on eBay and Big River today. Free shipping from the River if the order is $25 or more because I don’t have Prime. Or buy the same thing from eBay for an extra 75¢ with free shipping. Either way, the battery arrives sometime from Thursday through Saturday. I used some of my PayPal balance too.
So I’ll have a battery for all three phones. Sure, one phone is the spare, but it needs a battery in its box. I have three batteries to dispose of. If I have a brush pile burning, do phone batteries get exciting like fireworks? Or make pretty colors? I’ll be boring and adult and call the 800 number on the old battery before lighting a pile of brush.
Is tossing a battery into a brush pile fire more exciting if it’s puffing up like Mama Cass?
All three dud batteries still work until you get to about 50% charge and “click” phone turns off. It’s sort of like a car battery with an almost dead cell and another cell almost as dead. Sure, voltmeter says 12 volts until you apply a load and boom, 8 volts.
Are beagles being clingy a thing? I can go outside and Penny doesn’t care. None of my other dogs have cared. Buddy? Acts like he was abandoned forever. But you know, I have things to do outside that having a dog on a leash is not useful. Like pushing a lawnmower.
, which did not give it the courtesy of a regular timeslot
– skipping commercials was the ‘killer app’ part of TiVo, but not caring when a show aired was a close second. Tivo just got you any episode that ran, no matter the time or channel.
I didn’t even know what day most of the stuff we used to watch aired.
FWIW, never watched Babylon 5. Not a single ep. I think it might have aired while I was doing a lot of traveling, and not watching any tv.
n
@paul, beagles are very clingy. Very needy. My front neighbor had one when I was living in the ‘mother in law’ house in the back of the lot. I spent more time with that poor boy when I got home from the bar at 4am, than the people did. LOTS of moaning. LOUD moaning….
n
I drink iced tea with lemonade from powder pretty much every afternoon. I sip a 20oz yeti for most of the afternoon. It’s a sugar free version, and very easy to make from individual packets.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005LURBGK?tag=ttgnet-20
Tastes good too.
n
TV program distribution in the US altered radically over the course of the 90s, and “Babylon 5” was one of the casualties. The show never had a straightforward run like “Deep Space Nine”, and even that program was not as popular during the first run syndication as it is now.
And Carol Wayne!?!
“Babylon 5” was work to watch in the US. Even with a VCR, the schedule was never reliable like the “Star Trek” series in first run syndication.
We finally gave up when the series went to TNT and I couldn’t afford the standard fixed cable package offered by my apartment building in Tampa, a single $129/month option negotiated between the complex and the resident rep who did all the installations and technical support.
We didn’t have cable until we bought a house in the unincorporated section of the county in 2000.
Good to know beagles are clingy and that I don’t have a mental case. Thanks!
He sure is a sweet dog. And not much of a face licker. He’s company for Penny. Not that she will admit it. He stalks me around the house…. he can appear to be sleeping and snoring like an old fat man, sprawled on his back like buzzard bait and I can leave my PC to go pee and get a beer and there he is, looking at me. It’s cool.
Penny sleeps on the bed by my legs. We keep each other warm. Penny comes to bed when she’s ready. She likes the sofa until she gets cold. Buddy has clued in and he sleeps in Penny’s spot until she shows up around one or two AM. He growls ferociously, hops off the bed to his bed and then I hoist Penny onto the bed. We have a routine.
Fun.
Babylon 5 was syndicated, so yeah, the schedule varied a lot. I guess I was lucky, it was on Saturdays at 4 or 5 on the station I watched it on. Highlander the series was on after. I count myself a big B5 fan. Part of the fun when it was out was following along at http://midwinter.com/lurk/lurker.html
TNT was part of my basic cable package, so I could see S5.
No, the dogs have a routine for which they have trained you well. Like most dog owners.
I remember enjoying Babylon 5. Give it a try.
One line in particular has stuck with me: “The avalanche has started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.” — Kosh,
One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn’t belong…
– most popular president EVAH!!! 81MILLION votes. Allegations of targeted fraud. Trump- 74 Million, no fraud allegations.
155M votes between the two, with 168M registered voters… keeping in mind that there are more registered voters than there are actual people who are registered to vote, thru multiple listing of the same people, dead people not being removed from rolls, fraudulent or improperly registered people, registration of ineligible people, etc.
92% of registered voters apparently voted. Given that there is some percentage of the registered number that have to be discounted, you have to believe that pretty much every real registered voter voted. Which NEVER happens because people are people.
n
https://www.google.com/search?q=2020+presidential+election+results+by+state+csv
https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/number-of-voters-and-voter-registration-in-thousands-as-a-share-of-the-voter-population/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D
I missed Babylon Five and Battlestar Galactica other than a few random episodes. I did like what I saw.
Working 4 to Midnight or 3 to 11 or 11 to 7 will do that, especially when VCRs were brand and new cost almost a month’s take home pay at $800 ON SALE because it was last year’s model.
Yeah. I still have it. It’s a top load Hitachi. Still works, well,, it did a couple of years ago. Wired remote and all. My Betas had a better picture but they all quit working…. unless you had the cover off and pushed the threading system at just the right time…. never did figure where they needed a spot of lube.
On the plus side I missed almost all of Seinfield and Cheers and Three’s Company. And Friends. And Dallas.
It was a big deal at the time but I still don’t know who shot JR, Don’t care much….
Well. Yeah. It’s a mutual thing. 🙂
I liked Babylon Five, JS respected his viewers and genre, something ST almost always fails at.
I remember laughing out loud when, about 10m in, that I realized that an episode was going to show things from the viewpoint of a couple of maintenance guys throughout their day, rather than the captain, alien princesses, evil telepaths, and so on….
Plus Walter Koenig (ST’s Checkov) did a great job as the evil Psi Cop telepath “Bester”.
I started watching Star Trek when it was new. Dad was in ‘Nam. Mom watched it. It came on after bedtime. I’d wake up and there was a spot in the hallway where she couldn’t see me (I think) and I could see the TV.
Sometimes I managed to watch the whole show and went to bed. Sometimes I woke up in my bed. I usually woke up in the hallway with a blanket over me. My Mom was pretty cool.
That had to have been in ‘66. Because we moved to Mobile and I turned 10 in ’67. October.
I liked being 9 going on 11. Lots of stuff sorted out in my head.
Let me add to that.
You know how toddlers get? Frustrated because they are trying to talk and they don’t have the words? You just have to sit down on the floor and talk to them and teach them the words.
I think I became me about when I was nine and a couple of months. I remember a lot of stuff from before. …. but something pulled together at that time. It was a strange feeling. It wasn’t being grown up, no puberty at all, but my mind did something. Focused. That’s the best word I can think of. It felt sort of odd.
Woody Harrelson probably pushed Scott Adams out of the doghouse last night.
Yeah, racism, but the pandemic storyline must be preserved at all costs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8LX8MQMrag
@Nick
Good example of one of the few times they took a chance. Didn’t work out, in part because they had to make it a Picard story, and in part because a a civilization using a purely allegorical language is extrememly unlikely to become technological without significant dilution of the allegory component. An Enterprise story featuring Hoshi is more likely to have worked–different skill set.
Some good science fiction series suffered in the 1990’s/2000’s due to syndication changes and control issues. Aside from Babylon Five, Andromeda and Farscape come to mind.
Stargate survived the changes and thrived. Highlander survived the changes but didn’t really thrive.
Hercules wasn’t science fiction but was very successful until Sorbo declined to extend his contract (having signed to do Andromeda), then they cancelled the series midway in season six. Vindictive?
JMS (J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5’s creator and prime author) wrote in the “Lurker’s Guide” ( a fansite with details of everything aired so far) that he had sort-of planned alternate stories for EVERY major character, in case one died while shooting or became unavailable. And there was so much character shuffling anyway that it was entirely plausible that Captain Sinclair would be transferred to another planet and have a replacement arrive. In any Star Trek show, replacement of a major character would be earth-shaking.
The Lurker’s Guide was entirely new in another way; it was the first time that a show creator would chat in the web, in nearly real time, with the fans. JMS revealed hints, plans, explanations, and some oopses in filming that were quite refreshing.
I was surprised to find her on Highlander as an Immortal after dropping out of B5.
Claudia Christian was also on “Freaks and Geeks” in an occasional guest spot that same year.
In one episode, she worked with no less than Biff Tannen himself, Thomas F. Wilson, who portrayed the gym coach on the series.
Whether or not the network got the series – they didn’t – everyone involved in the cast and crew knew that they were making something special.
Yeah, Gerald Ford was not Joe Biden, even near the end. At 91, he gave Bob Woodward an embargoed four hour interview which was held until after he died two years later but no topic was off limits, including Shrub’s mishandling of the “wars”.
Ford got an unfair label as a klutz because of the stumble and subsequent Chevy Chase “impersonation” on SNL which just consisted of Chase doing pratfalls.
Har har har.
My TV saga.
CATV (cable) was first available where I lived in 1972. Unfortunately, I moved away from there in 1971. Cable came to the next four places I lived just after I left them. I have been here since 1978, and cable will never come here. It was installed as close as 200 yards away around 1980. That company went broke over a weekend. Their digging was supposed to be completed the next week, and would have included me. The new company refused to extend because our “density is too low,” and so on for the next through the present cable companies. I got DirecTV around 2006. There’s more…
I pulled some strings and got 768/128 DSL in 2003. I had to dig my own 200’ trench across my yard to install improved cable to the phone pedestal, but I didn’t complain. Later, Verizon bumped me to 1.5/384; really rocked! Verizon promised FIOS to our community around 2005 or so. Broke their promise. Frontier took over and bumped me to 3.3/512. I installed a seat belt on my computer chair!! A few months ago, Frontier moved my line to a new DSLAM closer to my house, and my speed went up to 5/768. Whee!!! Unfortunately, it has persistent brief outages. Was told I could get up to “something around 20 Mbps” at increased cost. Passed. Started service with a WISP (hi, Paul!) run by three local guys. They are the fourth (?) service to start service in our area, but the others are expensive and slow. These guys offer 100/100 for $80 a month. Blows away the competition. But…
I have never received more than a little over 50. They apologized and dropped my plan to 50/50 for $60 a month. Fair. Trouble is, I sometimes get close to 50/50, but sometimes as low as 3/5 on occasion. They can’t figure it out. Gave me a speed test with direct access to their upstream servers. It is slower than Ookla’s Speedtest, which routes mostly the same. My belief is that their problem is somewhere upstream of them, or I could be jinxed. However, now I can stream TV, and will be dropping DirecTV. We are making progress. But wait…
Frontier now promises (really?!) me that fiber is coming to my address, and soon. Not allowed to say exactly when, but probably about three months. It might be symmetrical 1 Gbps. It might be 2. It might even be 5. Long story, but they assure me that this is real, the result of federal money for rural customers like me. They seem to be spending a lot on advertising; I hope there is some money left for the actual service. Will believe it when the trenches are being dug. They are already digging in some local places. Complicated by the fact that the city has awarded a franchise to another company to dig up their streets (actually, slant drilling, with almost no digging.) I am in the county.
Frontier is getting some good reviews on their fiber to the home in some parts of the country. The bad reviewers say they have better choices. I should be so lucky.
Wow. With even 1 Gbps I should have answers to my searches before I can think of the question. Should support 99 K Ultra Sooper Dooper TV or whatever. Almost as good as Korea. That’s some of what I have been doing for the last month or so. Stay tuned for another episode of “As the Stomach Turns.”
We are one level down from the top plan on att fiber to the home, bare plan. Supposed to get 700/50 have been getting 300/30. The box reports 999/999 which is the top tier speed.
IDK if it’s speedof.me or something else, but I am REALLY supposed to be getting symmetrical speeds. SOMETHING is limiting me somewhere, as I was getting much better speeds and my hardware hasn’t changed.
I didn’t notice how bad it’s gotten so now I’ll have to add exploring that to my list.
n
Nick, Like you, I only look at speeds sporadically, when I think there is a problem. Lately, with new-ish phones and improved cell backhaul, plus a new ISP, I have been running and recording quite a few speed teats. I wish I had an automated test, but haven’t had the interest to look for one. I like Ookla, because it is easy to set up an account and record results. (Just got the dinner call.) Over the years, I have tried more than a dozen speed testers, including some recommended here, but I think Ookla is consistent with some of the best ones. I also should have said that my new service has only had a few problems, and is very good a high percentage of the time.
The system is 14 years old. I’m working on a complete replacement build.
You almost inspired me to finish building my new home pc from parts I bought in August 2021 today. But, I lost my inspiration and watched “Lie To Me” all day.
I’ve been reading Laundry Files since dusk…
n
Hey, my website two week password generator works for test drivers of my software on IPv6. I been wondering that for quite a while but have not tested it since I block IPv6 from my office and from my home. Somebody is test driving from Indonesia on IPv6. I love it when stuff works for things it was not designed for.
I’ve been reading Laundry Files since dusk…
I went to Academdy at dusk and bought some new jogging Asics, Kroger to get some Quakers chedder rice cakes for the wife and daughter, and HEB to get the rest of the list. I am tired.
I am concerned too. HEB had more stuff than it has had in three years. We may be getting ready for another apocalypse. I talked with my friend the head stocker, Will. He said that there were still holes in the store but they had managed to hide them all now since they had so much stuff. 75,000 people shop at this HEB every week. I told Will my apocalypse theory and he said no way, he just got the store back in shape and can’t go through that again. He has been getting three to five 18 wheelers a day to stock the store with. They did let him hire three more stockers though.
the problem with drinking caffeinated beverages all afternoon, is drinking them too late into the evening, and then not feeling ready for bed at a reasonable hour.
n
Watching my video cams, and just caught mr possum sauntering across my front walk to take a little drink from the fountain/fish pond. He’s bigger than most cats.