iOutage

I have been without internet at home sine Monday. During this outage I considered canceling my Internet service and becoming an Internet HoBo (DT, UD). iHoBO?. Using either an iPod Touch, or a MacBook Air I could hop Wi-Fi hotspot to Wi-Fi hotspot when I need Internet access. Internet usage would be limited to only the necessary activity. Inconvenience of accessing the Internet become a productivity boom. This week I made a to-do list of what I needed to do on the Internet.

However, I’d be:

• slowed down in responding to e-mail or updating home computers.
• asking friends to download and burn DVDs when I want to try the latest Fedora or VMware ESXi.
• planning when to take the laptop when I want to download podcasts, or upload files to my websites.

Yeah, internethobo.com is already taken. cyberhobo.net is also taken, but that’s a different kind internet hobo.

This?

I’m paying $65 (includes TV) for this? Ars Technica (Gizmodo) covers some stupid stuff on YouTube. However, most constructive is eating of a canned cheeseburger. Not that eating canned cheeseburgers is construction, it show’s the inferiority of the canned cheeseburger.

Clearly, my Goerge Foreman grilled cheese hamburger is much more appealing.

GizMag also mentions:

• a chocolate mousse dessert
• powdered red wine

The emergency rations taste test (MP4](http://lyndell.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/ext/yt/emergency_rations.mp4) (YouTube) might also be worth a watch if you plan on buying those. Without watching it, I think I’ll stick to cans of Wolf Brand chili in a http://www.cheaperthandirt.com/ZAA066-1.html“>.50 caliber ammo can.

TV

TV can easily be replaced with wireless TV, er, broadcast TV. Ironicly, my TV has been restored just in time for the termination of the analog signal I don’t use. Strange how high-tech broadcast TV sounds when you call it wireless TV.

I won’t buy a converter. Can’t conventiently change the channels from the computer. The coupons are $40, and I haven’t found a $40 converter.

Even thought of selling the TV. I prefer watching TV on my computer instead. I made my own DVR with a WinTV-PVR-150 PCI TV-Tuner. A couple month of Internet/TV payment would cover the cost of a new ATSC tuner.

Benefits

However, there are good thinks on the internet, such as this article on the realism of the balloon lifted House (Wired) in movie Up Rakkav emailed me. Additionally, this article, “Blah, blah, blog!”, prodded by:

• raising the bar on my blog by writing more meaningful brainy posts rather than just compiling links to interesting pages.
• less frequent updates; saves time too
• changing the name and slogan, intentionally alluding to Star Trek
• changing the theme, even though preferred the previous theme

Fun

Just found played a while with tetris, thanks to Google. Good clean fun, but a reason to cancel my Internet to save time.

article with videos at Wired.com.

It’s not a pancake.  It splintered into a scrambled wreck.  A pancake implies a sigle flat peice.  A car crusher certainly pancakes a car, but compresses the car horiztonally, not vertically.

Now a rocketsled on wheels would make a fun, fast ride.  Anyone remember Greezed Lightnin’?

Maybe the calender itself itsn’t nuclear powered, but Wired reports on the Miss Atom 2009 beauty competition.

I rush to catch the early bus, but before it rounds the corner after I get on, the bus loses a tire. The tire was gone as in HTTP 410 Gone. The bus was running on the rim, leaving a mark in the concrete, flattening it’s rim. Nine other wheels, with tires, and the bus couldn’t keep the rim off the road. No spare tire. The drive let everyone off. Metro didn’t send a replacement bus, nor a service vehicle to replace the tire. We just waited forty minutes until the next bus on the schedule came by. I start forty minutes early, and clock-in three minutes late.

Seeing this adorable canine at CuteOverload.com fetching a can on Guinness shows there is good service in this world. The contributor’s picture can be found on flickr and his homepage has some adorable dog photographs online too.

This unbelievable picture could be recaptioned, “DISBELIEF, prefering Guinness over dead rat.”

more animals

Ten tips to LOLspeak

1. Mis-decline verbs, especially misuse the verb “to be”
2. Misuse gerunds
3. Overuse prepositional phrases
4. Blatant rearrangement of syntax
5. Incorrect plurals and past-tense verbs
6. “noun” your adjectives. (For instance, the adjective “blue” can become the noun “blueness”)
7. Improper pronouns
8. Drop the articles (”a”, “and”, “the”) in favor of adding “-age” to the end of a noun
9. Use “younger” words (”kitty” versus “cat”, “fuzzy” versus “furry”, etc.)
10. Use the word “with” inappropriately.

Wired brought this to my attention.

More at Flickr, and Wordpress.

Pic Shows Man Robbing Stores With Klingon Sword: Clerks Recognize Sword As ‘Bat’leth’

Bridgestone has their Superbowl ads and behind the scenes videos online.  They used a Pontiac Solstice which is a sibling car to the Saturn Sky.

Someone makes a website for creating trashed files to use the lie that a computer failure caused you to loose your work.

Buc-ee's sign

I stopped at this Madisonville, Texas Buc-ee’s twice and it’s still not open.

Okay, the second time was intentional so I could get a picture of a new Buc-ee’s.  Who want’s to attend their grand opening?  No I’m not going to wear a Buc-ee’s costume at the next Kansas City Family Weekend dance.

I’m back from my KC trip, with lunch in Southlake northwest of Dallas, a detour from I-35E, toward I-45, west on I-30, past Waxahachie on I-35E and a stop in Waxahachie, Texas to say I’ve been where the Superconducting Super Collider was going to be.  I got a ring location map similar to this one.

SSC at HEP

I was asked if these graffiti LEDs would stay on the car while driving.  Yes they do, even at time conserving freeway speeds.  

More LED pictures coming later, next year, possibly.