evolution

posted by Bill. Go ye and read.

We could indeed do with a little less mocking of “high-end” education.

Things are going to change, all right.

One.

Two.

Three.

Four.

And that’s all I’ve got the energy for.

UPDATE: Aw, hell, how about five, for whatever this place becomes fifty years from now.

UPDATE 2: Six. I hope this doesn’t become a drinking game. But it probably will.

Actuarial humor exists. It’s about four and a half minutes; which goes on just a little bit too long for the kind of joke that it is, but it’s well-executed and funny as hell. I’m told this guy is an actuary at Humana.

Try Sunflower Broadband!

[START (9/24 20:35)] A few months ago, I went through a couple of weeks wherein my cable Internet service would disconnect after about 15 minutes of being online. So I called the aforementioned cable company and we played the whole game (since I was a professional troubleshooter at the time, I already knew most of the steps the support person was going to take me through, and I had already done most of them) over the phone and then I had to miss a half day of work for the eventual site visit.

The technician plugged in the cable tester, and showed that I was [BREAK (9/24 20:39): just dropped out again, after plugging into another cable outlet, the one where my TV is] getting “good signal”. He replaced a splitter that routes the main line into the three rooms in my apartment where the jacks are, and that was that. [BREAK (9/24 20:44): back after disconnecting and removing the splitter, so that my TV is now disconnected] I’d suspect the modem, but it has given me several years of failure-free service.

None of this, of course, is to mention that I now have cables strung across my living room floor so that at least I can get on using my seven-year-old laptop, while my $2000 desktop sits in the other room, powered off and collecting dust.

I don’t really want to play this game again. Suggestions?

57% of Americans (and 64% of Republicans) support the bailout.

Hey look! American Idol, Survivor, and Best Week EVAR are on!

UPDATE [9/24 17:48]: Bill comes by to say that there is yet hope of killing this thing.