By this time tomorrow I should be back on the broadband band-wagon. These short bursts of connectivity at work and at the houses of kindly friends just won't cut it. In doing the shopping for this I was reminded again why monopolies and near-monopolies are so often bad for consumers. There are two major broadband providers locally: the cable ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I talked about work, so I figured I'd talk about some craziness ( Read more... )

I'm sure that most people already realize that this is a supremely dumb thing to do, but that doesn't reduce the number of chases that we have ( Read more... )

It's interesting to realize that even though I finally got around to updating yesterday, in less than 24 hours I've come up with no less than three things to mention ( Read more... )

I have many things to discuss today, I shall endeavor to keep them all brief ( Read more... )

My schedule through the fall semester has me working 17:00 to 05:00 Sunday night to Monday morning every weekend. This, coupled with class on Mondays, is going to do some funny stuff to my ability to think. Fortunately I have some time to recover Monday and Tuesday nights, so I'll probably survive. But I doubt it'll be all that pleasant.

Thomas

In dispatch it is relatively rare that a name is provided on its own for official purposes. Generally it will either be spelled phonetically to ensure proper recording ('Thomas' is tango-hotel-ocean-mike-alpha-sierra, for instance), or simply followed by a confirmation that the common spelling is to be used ( Read more... )

Whether in person, or online, or whatever, make sure to ask me about the Housing Authority Softball League. Even if you don't find it funny, just explaining it to you is likely to make me laugh myself out of my chair, and I could use the joy ( Read more... )

So one of the local trailer parks was recently purchased, and they're repurposing the land. In the interests of that, they worked out a deal to transfer all the trailers to another of the local trailer parks. The move happened today ( Read more... )

I expected tonight to be one of those terribly busy and confused nights at work. It is, for the not-so-local, the night of the Iron Bowl. That's the biggest college football game we play in a year, and it generally results in a trebling or quadrupling of the local population. (Note, it has taken me one hour to compose this paragraph ( Read more... )