internet limbo; brief entries.
limbo
as you may or may not have noticed, i haven't been online much recently, except at work. no lj posts either. our internet at the house is having issues. a clog in the series of tubes, so to speak. if one of the more technically adept of my friends has a suggest other than "stop using comcast" i'd be happy to entertain it. because, once again, i have stumped tech support.
the problem is this. the modem get an ip, passes it on the router, which assigns an ip to the two computers on our "network." both computers get ip addresses for the dns and dhcp servers, and are capable of finding ip addresses for serves to ping. successful pings of one dns server, but not the other. all outside pings fail.
it's not a software problem. both computers (one of which has been off for weeks or month) would not experience the same problem if it was. safe mode; reinstalling tcp/ip does nothing. hard resetting the entire system (turn everything off, plug modem back in, when it gets a connection plug in router, then turn on pc) does nothing. jiggling the connection with ipconfig in windows does nothing. it's also not the router. connecting the computer straight to the modem does nothing. it's got to be the modem or on up. tech support was no help. it spontaneous came back for a bit last night, but it was off again pretty quickly. sounds like a problem on comcast's end.
UFO's
as none of you probably know, i'm actually quite entertained by pseudoscience. i'm a big loch ness monster and bigfoot fan. and mkele mbembe. not so much the new school, like the chupacabra, but the classics. and i love ufo's. i like this stuff because it's the intersection of my "wouldn't it be cool if..." fantasies about aliens and dinosaurs, and the cold hard science of their debunkings.
i'm of the opinion that the modern digital photography revolution has killed bigfoot, nessie, and alien spaceships. think about it for a second. where are the recent pictures of ufo's? everybody's walking around with camera phones now that outperform their p+s film cameras of years ago, and most people have better digital p+s cameras or fancy dslr's now. photography itself has gone through an explosion in the last few years. people are photographing more and more and more, and more people have access to better and better equipment. there should be tons of new ufo, nessie, and bigfoot pictures, statistically.
i know this isn't a very good argument, proof by overwhelming lack of evidence, but it's damned suspicious. if they weren't more that out-of-focus blurry schmutz, surely we should be getting some amazing pictures now that everyone has killer autofocus and incredible telephoto lenses. right?
well... here's a few. more to be found on the same site. there's been a recent rash of these very fancy, sharp ufo photos showing up on the net. i think it's interesting in an anthropological sense, the evolution of ufo sightings tells us a lot about ourselves and what we think of as strange and foreign. these are almost certainly fakes, of course, which makes them even more interesting. of course, they might be part of the halo 3 "alternate reality game" ad campaign, too.
curiously, i've seen stange objects in the sky twice in the last two weeks on the way to work. work that i use my camera at, so it was in the car with me. so maybe, there goes my argument anyways.
collected shorts
went to the dentist last week. they moved my appointment back to way early in the morning, which i didn't like. and gave me a new hygenist. who was kinda cute. is it wrong to flirt with a girl who makes your gums bleed?
"don't get on the computer, i'm using it right now!" shouts mom from the swimming pool.
"i can't believe how packed that french restaurant was, and they played la marseillaise twice," says mom, unaware it was bastille day.
rented bully for ps2 -- it's like grand theft auto, but you're 15 and in a preppy boarding school. "petty theft bicycle." very fun, actually. daniel got up yesterday, hours before i did, and went right to it. played it for about 4 or 5 hours straight. when i got up, i went to show him something -- and wrote over his save game more or less immediately. oops.
going to rocky horror tonight with peppy.
as you may or may not have noticed, i haven't been online much recently, except at work. no lj posts either. our internet at the house is having issues. a clog in the series of tubes, so to speak. if one of the more technically adept of my friends has a suggest other than "stop using comcast" i'd be happy to entertain it. because, once again, i have stumped tech support.
the problem is this. the modem get an ip, passes it on the router, which assigns an ip to the two computers on our "network." both computers get ip addresses for the dns and dhcp servers, and are capable of finding ip addresses for serves to ping. successful pings of one dns server, but not the other. all outside pings fail.
it's not a software problem. both computers (one of which has been off for weeks or month) would not experience the same problem if it was. safe mode; reinstalling tcp/ip does nothing. hard resetting the entire system (turn everything off, plug modem back in, when it gets a connection plug in router, then turn on pc) does nothing. jiggling the connection with ipconfig in windows does nothing. it's also not the router. connecting the computer straight to the modem does nothing. it's got to be the modem or on up. tech support was no help. it spontaneous came back for a bit last night, but it was off again pretty quickly. sounds like a problem on comcast's end.
UFO's
as none of you probably know, i'm actually quite entertained by pseudoscience. i'm a big loch ness monster and bigfoot fan. and mkele mbembe. not so much the new school, like the chupacabra, but the classics. and i love ufo's. i like this stuff because it's the intersection of my "wouldn't it be cool if..." fantasies about aliens and dinosaurs, and the cold hard science of their debunkings.
i'm of the opinion that the modern digital photography revolution has killed bigfoot, nessie, and alien spaceships. think about it for a second. where are the recent pictures of ufo's? everybody's walking around with camera phones now that outperform their p+s film cameras of years ago, and most people have better digital p+s cameras or fancy dslr's now. photography itself has gone through an explosion in the last few years. people are photographing more and more and more, and more people have access to better and better equipment. there should be tons of new ufo, nessie, and bigfoot pictures, statistically.
i know this isn't a very good argument, proof by overwhelming lack of evidence, but it's damned suspicious. if they weren't more that out-of-focus blurry schmutz, surely we should be getting some amazing pictures now that everyone has killer autofocus and incredible telephoto lenses. right?
well... here's a few. more to be found on the same site. there's been a recent rash of these very fancy, sharp ufo photos showing up on the net. i think it's interesting in an anthropological sense, the evolution of ufo sightings tells us a lot about ourselves and what we think of as strange and foreign. these are almost certainly fakes, of course, which makes them even more interesting. of course, they might be part of the halo 3 "alternate reality game" ad campaign, too.
curiously, i've seen stange objects in the sky twice in the last two weeks on the way to work. work that i use my camera at, so it was in the car with me. so maybe, there goes my argument anyways.
collected shorts
went to the dentist last week. they moved my appointment back to way early in the morning, which i didn't like. and gave me a new hygenist. who was kinda cute. is it wrong to flirt with a girl who makes your gums bleed?
"don't get on the computer, i'm using it right now!" shouts mom from the swimming pool.
"i can't believe how packed that french restaurant was, and they played la marseillaise twice," says mom, unaware it was bastille day.
rented bully for ps2 -- it's like grand theft auto, but you're 15 and in a preppy boarding school. "petty theft bicycle." very fun, actually. daniel got up yesterday, hours before i did, and went right to it. played it for about 4 or 5 hours straight. when i got up, i went to show him something -- and wrote over his save game more or less immediately. oops.
going to rocky horror tonight with peppy.