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Good morning, Andi.
Friday, indeed!
It’s still unseasonably mild here, high 50s this morning.
Good morning Andi and ask.
ask we’re supposed to get up into the 80’s today.
80s!
I’m dreaming of this:
Yeah, it’s going to be unseasonably warm here too — 70s. And then tomorrow the high is going to be in the 40s. Good thing I like change (hey, how about those democrats).
Now if someone up late — or very early — from the west would drop by, we could have the FBC national weather report.
Yep the Dems done good. 🙂
Someone out there should be up.
Hi everybody. Supposed to be about 70 again today.
Hi CG. Will I ever get the snow I want? 🙂
since the snow that you want is none.
come on up here in February. I’ll share. 🙂
Are you going to get to enjoy some of that nice weather?
I got to enjoy some of it yesterday, and I’m going to try to squeak in a walk today. This week has been a bad one for walking for me.
How about you?
Just heading out the door. See ya.
Well I hate to say it, but I’ve been up all night, so while I can get a little sleep, I’m going to.
See ya’ll later.
Mornin’ Andi, CG, Family Man, Ask, and everyone else.
Andi, since you and I are tethered to dial up like a 50cent balloon, I thought I’d make this most important report. While searching prices on high speed alternatives, I found this: it’s a one way satellite system combined with dial up. All uploading and communicating with the internet is done through a dial up connection; downloading is done with the satellite. You can pick and choose your plan and they start in the $20’s. The lowest is about 250kbs/second, which is a LOT faster than my usual dial up connection. Roy’s getting it for me for Christmas. He’s going to install it himself and save another $100 or so. I was very happy to find this system; Verizon online broadband is over $50, two way satellite is close to $500 for initial setup and $60 a month thereafter!
Our telephone company just told us last week that FOR SURE, they’ll have new lines installed by the end of 2008. Big deal. A year ago they said they’d be in by the end of 2006.
Thanks for the link, Nag. We’ve thought about satellite and decided not to get it (we’d get a two-system because uploading is an almost as much of an issue for me as downloading) but we decided against it because of the latency problems, the rain fade, and, most of all, we’d have to cut down a bunch of trees. But I’ll be really interested in hearing how this goes.
Oh hell, if I had to cut down trees, I’d also have to think twice.
What’s a ‘latency problem’? It would be nice to have fast uploading, but I can live without. I don’t care about rain fade, because most storms chase me offline anyway. I’m afraid of surges on my laptop as well as actual lightening strikes. Don’t let anyone ever tell you that lightening doesn’t strike twice. You can be prone in an area and get repeated strikes over time. Or on a sunny day. But that’s another story.
I will do a little more research about these systems before we actually try it, but I’m hopeful.
Rain fade doesn’t just happen with storms, any good hard rain can wipe out the signal for our directv dish. I don’t think we’ve ever lost the signal for more than 20-30 minutes, though.
Latency is a lag time in communication caused by the signal having to travel a long distance out into space to the satellite and back to Earth again. According to what I’ve read, the signal delay can be as much as 500 milliseconds to 900 milliseconds — you probably aren’t going to be doing anything that will be that affected by this.
This sounds like a pretty good option if you just use your connection for e-mail and browsing the web. If you’re serving up any kind of content at all, dial-up is out of the question.
I couldn’t do it. I live on the Net, I have my own mail servers and web servers and I really need two-way communication to use the remote link to work, like I did all day yesterday. So I have Comcast cable net. Yeah, Comcast is evil, but at the moment it’s a necessary evil.
Mornin’ folks. Last night of getting 4+ hours of sleep, I hope. I really need more.
Usually I’m up 2-3 times a night to go to the bathroom. Sometimes I can’t get back to sleep for an hour or two. Not last night. I crashed out about 11 and didn’t get up until time to get ready to go to work.
Unfortunately that means I didn’t wake up in the middle of the night. slap myself across the forehead, go “D’oh! I forgot to take my insulin!” and trot downstairs to the fridge where it lives. It’s a long-acting insulin and taking it in the morning just screws up my schedule, so I have to do without until bedtime tonight, which means my blood sugar is a bit high. (Not dangerously so, just enough that I’d probably better have a salad for lunch instead of the french-fry-and-rice casserole.)
Anyone around or is everyone sleeping in today?
and only as awake as I have to be to be working.
Hi Omir.
I’ve been thinking of you lately when I see all the reports of flooding in your area. I hope it’s not near you.
BTW staying awake at work only shows you’ve gotten everything done and you’re looking for more work. A sleeping worker has the confidence to show he has his work done and is waiting for more. Ya buying any of that. 🙂
I’m going to have eyes tattooed onto my eyelids so it looks like I’m awake when I’m sleeping. Saves time that way.
The flooding is nowhere hear us, thank His Noodly Self. We’re in the middle of the city well away from anything that’s going to flood unless Green Lake rises about 40 feet. If that happens more people than me are going to be having problems.
The vast majority of the flooding is happening in rural parts of the county along some of the smaller rivers like the White and Snoqualmie. It will probably get worse out there as more rain is forecast for the weekend. I feel sorry for the people up there, this seems to happen to them a lot.
The danger here in the city is from hillslides. We’ve had houses that were built at the edge of a hill come sliding down off the top in the past. I don’t think that’s happening yet this year, but as the ground gets softer, who knows? I just hope we don’t have an earthquake or something fun like that while all this is going on.
You don’t have to worry about floods, but landslides could be a problem. You live near a volcano, but it hasn’t blown yet and would tsunamis ever hit you?
Geeze I thought a tornado every now and then was bad. 🙂
I don’t think a landslide would be a problem where I live. There are plenty of trees, plants and houses anchoring the hill to our west to keep Phinney Ridge from crashing down on us.
Earthquakes, yeah they’re a problem, but only occasionally and one we can by and large deal with. The only problems in the 2000 Nisqually earthquake were with older buildings (mostly brick). My wife and I were both in high-rises and they build those to have some give to them so the earthquake doesn’t shake them apart.
Tsunamis aren’t much of a problem either. Any tsunami coming toward Seattle would be blunted by hitting the Washington coast and Vancouver island, and what’s left would have to travel through the relatively narrow Strait of Juan de Fuca to get to us.
Of course in the words of the immortal philosopher Jimmy Buffett, I don’t know where I’m a-gonna go when the volcano blow. I don’t think we’re in line for any lehar flows (unlike parts of Tacoma) but I don’t want to test it out either. That’s not to say it would be pleasant if Mount Rainier ever erupts. In fact quite the opposite. I just don’t think we’d get buried by lava if it did.
I’m glad to hear you’re relatively safe from most disasters. I lived in Northern California back in the eighties. The whole time there I only felt one earthquake that had my eyes pop open after I realized what it was. The thing that gets me is from what I’ve read and heard the worst earthquake to hit the U.S. was in New Madrid, MO. during the 1800’s. Damn that’s not that far from me. 🙂
and wishing we were slacking.
and wishing we were……. Whatever this heck it is, it’s not working, Hah. 🙂
Just think the day is almost done and the weekend will be here soon.
Yeah but I’ve got a con call at the end of the day — which is almost as bad as sitting in beige conference rooms.
It must be bad if you compare it to the beige comference rooms. Maybe you’ll get lucky and the power will go out.
Nice idea but power doesn’t kill off a cell phone. Anyway, this call will probably be bearable since it should be under an hour.
Back to the salt mines.