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.

Busy day and I haven’t even gone to work yet.

I’m feeling good.  I:

1. Cooked a whole 23 pound turkey
2. Washed dishes
3. Cleaned the foul fowl juice that leaked in the refrigerator while thawing the turkey.  …and on the counter while preparing the turkey.
4. Made a quick grocery run needed lettuce and rewarding beer
5. Drank a beer while surfing the net
6. Ate a York Peppermint patty

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’

Does the stimulus package include funds for beer pouring robots?

And what does that make me?

Get Your Cyborg Name

Ytterbium Neohuman…lifelike.  Funny, I was thinking about dressing up as Lt. Cmd. Data for next year’s Kansas City costume dance.  Data is logical; logical in his learning, too.  Contrary to my first thought, Google does have a definition for Ytterbium.  It’s an element named after a Swedish town.  Maybe I should get the periodic table on a shower curtain.

Blame Rakkav for this latter diversion.

Now these are hamburgers worth photographing. The first is is on of his homemade hamburgers and the second is a restaurant hamburger from Burgermeister.

Marshall Astor has photographs of great hamburgers on Flickr. The glazed donut burger is sure to be the kind of thing Homer Simpson would eat. Coworkers are sure to love the bacon overload of the Mega Hamburger Four – The Leaning Tower of Bacon.

These Mega-Hamburgers are worth a look

• Mega Hamburger One
• Mega Hamburger Two
• Mega-Hamburger-Three
• Mega Hamburger Six – The Towering Inferno

Finally got proper containment for my Nuclear Chili. How else do you power a Nuclear Powered Brain but with nuclear food.  Yes, beer would be appropriate coolant for the nuclear process.  I haven’t added the excess of jalapenos to this batch. I wonder if a titanium spork can handle it. Seems the spork would be more comfortable with a wood handle.

Nuclear; gratuitous use of nuclear.

You just don’t see this done for Windows Mobile.

Went shopping.

Finally ate a big salad.  Only had a taco salad last Sabbath.  Coleslaw, romaine, olives, completed with a Grand Mariner.

Bought four packages of ground meat, two turkey, two beef.  ONly planned to buy one, but there were specials I didn’t refuse.  Don’t wonna’ start trusting the power system blindly yet.  But I will start bagging my ice, to have a large stash of ice in the freezer.

Now that’s then, when a MacBook Air can slice bread.  Hope no one is so brazen to chop wood with it.

A Dell in contrast, would make pancakes.  See a Dell parody of the Apple ad.

Disposing of a Healthy Choice Cafe Steamer, I thought about how much plastic was used. The plastic just survives the microwaving, but it is thicker than cheaper and less sophisticated microwave meals.

On the Axiom, people “eat” their food from a cup. It was advertised as a “lunch in a cup.” We have had that for years. I most remember Slim Fast for the diet shakes they advertised on TV. That is a meal in a cup. Soup in a small microwaveable cup is literally a meal in a cup. I read somewhere, that healthier food take effort to eat. A burrito that just slide down the throat will minimal effort is not nutrition. I’ve heard explain that one diet should contain crush foods, like raw, or nearly raw vegetables.