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Friday, Jul 01, 2005
In Which I Demonstrate How Lame My Paint Skills Are
Fox Sux Their own Teeny Cox
While flipping through the channels the other day I passed through Fox. I wish I could give more details, but brain infection induced haze and all.
The host boy was yammering about how the Democrats had nothing to offer for improving the situation in Iraq, absofuckinglutely nothing, except, you know, concrete proposals like figuring out how to make training work, actually rebuilding infrastructure, yadda, yadda. In the meantime, the Republicans had some honest to god I-D-E-A-S. Cut to sound bite from Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska)
Fastest.Post.Ever.
I have DSL going at D's house now. It's 1.5 to 3.0 Mbps down and 384 to 512 kbps up for 24 bucks a month. Right now I'm getting about 2 M down, and 512k up. The download rate might get better as the modem trains.
The SBC install SW is fucking stupid. It's got all sorts of fancy flash crap for meaningless animation. (But isn't that what flash is used for 99% of the time -- useless eye candy that adds nothing of real value?) Simultaneously, the software has no logic to deal with problems. Multiple times it hung for no apparent reason, with no diagnostic messages of any kind. Eventually it worked, but it was a real mystery why it failed.
The next step is to figure out how to connect it to my wifi router. The DSL modem has some funky looking IP settings, but I should be able to sort it out. There's some online FAQs (not provided by SBC) that should help me past any hiccups. And D's neighbor up the hill is a techno dude who has been through the DSL install already, so he may have some pointers.
The whole deal is just weird. The software is smart enough to hide all the "complexity", but too stupid to do anything in the face of failure but hang. And they don't seem to have any resources for power users. Maybe they'll figure out this 21st century telecom thing. Eventually.
Box Score
Qiddity has a nice section-by-section analysis of the recent terrorism pep rally given by the preznit.
I'll supplement that with some buzzword scores.
| terror/terrorist(s) | 34 |
| insurgents | 6 |
| September 11 | 5 |
| bin Laden/Zarqawi/al Qaeda | 4 |
| Saddam Hussien | 1 |
| WMDs (in Iraq) | 0 |
For those of you playing buzzword bingo, "terror" was the ticket.
Update: Ezra Klein also scores the speech.
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