BoingBoing pointed out the secret deal where one can get DSL service from AT&T for $10/month.
BoingBoing’s Cory Doctorow says AT&T is evil and doesn’t deserve your business. I say that’s precisely the reason everyone should sign up. At $10/month, AT&T must surely lose money on every line. Therefore, sign up as many of your friends and family as you can!
The Consumerist: AT&T’s Secret $10 DSL
Bellsouth: Bellsouth FastAccess DSL Term Agreement Plans Available
I once read a book called The Hot Zone by Richard Preston, a true story of an Ebola outbreak in Northern Virginia in 1989. I think its one of the most terrifying books I’ve ever read, particularly since I lived nearby around that time. So maybe I’m just being overly paranoid, but I’m not too keen about our government’s potential plans to set up a bioweapons lab in Butner. The NBAF would be playing with fun stuff like anthrax, Ebola, avian flu, and other deadly pathogens right on our doorstep.
The Butner facility is being deemed a replacement for the aging Plum Island facility in Long Island, NY. Plum Island has generated a lot of attention with books like these, detailing alleged safety violations at the bioweapons facility.
Hey, I like job growth as much as anyone. I just don’t like the potential of infecting the local population with some plague in order to get it. I’m thinking the NBAF is one Yankee transplant to which we can say “no, thanks.”
I’ve got another dentist appointment today, one of my every-six-month checkups. While taking care of my teeth is not news, the fact that another six months has gone by is. To me, anyway. Whenever I’m making my next appointment, I always think wow, six months is a long time. Then its here before I know it.
Where does the time go?
I said last February that Jim Black should go, and now he will go … to prison! Black got his just desserts today when he was sentenced to 63 months in PMITA prison.
He earned it, too. Today’s paper says he took not just $50,000 in bribes, but $500,000 in bribes. That makes Meg Scott Phipps look like an amateur.
What we still don’t know is which lobbyist wrote the check. Come on, Jim. Who’d you sell us out to?
I was shocked to learn yet another of my cartoonist heroes has died a tragic death. Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Doug Marlette, author of the Kudzu comic strip, died in a car wreck today. He was 57.
While I thought Kudzu seemed stale as of late, it was the coolest thing back in 1986, my junior year of high school. This was Kudzu’s “moon pie” phase, a schtick that wound up decorating the signature pages of my South Meck High School yearbook. Continue reading
When I thought I’d be taking the train north last week I decided I wanted to know where I was. Since I no longer have Windows on my laptop, my Microsoft Streets and Trips software wasn’t an option. That’s when I remembered a sweet Linux mapping application called Roadmap.
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Spent the afternoon and evening yesterday pulling cable under the house. I was surprised to see only one dead mouse under there. It had long ago stopped smelling, so I ignored it in favor of getting my wiring job done.
I pulled four ethernet drops and two coaxial drops to split between the den and the playroom. When I goofed up and didn’t properly locate the spot where they would go, I enlisted Kelly to help me run additional cable. Had I not made that mistake I could have shaved two hours off my job. D’oh! There is truth in the old adage: measure twice, cut once!
At lunch I will put connectors on the garage ends and then the jacks will go live. Hooray!
We got back Saturday afternoon from our visit with Kelly’s parents. Once again, driving down U.S. 15 seemed much easier than the interstates. Kelly followed me on the way down, with Travis joining me for an hour or so after lunch.
It was good having company as I drove, but I felt bad that I couldn’t understand what Travis was telling me. He’s tough sometimes to hear even in the best of circumstances. Add in road noise and all I could do was smile and nod my head.
Kelly’s parents were as always great to us. Even though I had to work while I was there, it felt like a little vacation.
My friend Kurt recently attended his submarine’s deactivation ceremony. The USS Minneapolis-St. Paul (SSN-708) was deactivated last month after two decades of service to the country. Seems like a short life for such a capable vessel. It made me wonder why we would scrap her.
Today I found an article describing USS Minneapolis-St. Paul’s likely fate: the scrapping process for nuclear submarines and ships. After decomissioning in September, she’ll be cut into sections, with most metal being recycled. The reactor’s final resting place will be the Hanford nuclear site in Washington state.
With the Navy scrapping perfectly good Spruance-class destroyers and nuclear subs, what does that leave? Are the remaining ships really all that?
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