Can connect to the internet for bursts of 3 minutes and 33 seconds or 4 minutes and 33 seconds before connection is dropped.
Replaced the rj45 cable from the modem to the wall plug, it fooled me for 2 hours of internet freedom and then the connection started dropping again, haven't been able to time the drops yet. Looks like I need another modem.
Saintseneca's coming up north. I can't go to their show because I committed the cardinal sin of being under 18. I would make this a drinking game but...
This weeks episode of Planet Money is about the Patent Troll, James Logan. It's a rebroadcast with some new info at the end. Great episode, but the subject makes it a Fail.
Just got home after like 10 hours of playing MTG and right as I get in the driveway my house experiences a power outage, which I could tell from the motion-sensor activated light at the front door. The outage was of course from the damn sleet which had made the drive home quite the experience already. Since I didn't have a flashlight at hand I really tip-toed up the stairs to my bedroom. And just as I get my heavy backpack off the back, the power comes back on...
So, I was scheduled for 4 panels yesterday at Pacific Media Expo. I was told by a few people that PMX is one of the better cons to go to here in SoCal, so I was looking forward to it. I even made some dvds of royalty free sound effects to sell after my audio drama workshop.
What a wash.
Now, the hallways of the con were well populated. It looked, by all appearances to be a pretty hoppin convention. But OH EM EFFING GEE was panel attendance low. And not just for me, either. I talked to a lot of the other panelists and even some of the special guests of the convention and they all told me how surprised they were of the attendance. Average audience sizes were from the single digits up to the twenties. And these are in rooms that could hold about 100-150 people. I have performed at Anime LA, Equestria LA, and Anime Expo for the past year and a half and, with only one exception, the rooms have filled to capacity and people were turned away EVERY TIME.
I actually had to delay my audio drama workshop for about 10-15 minutes BECAUSE THERE WAS NO AUDIENCE UNTIL THEN.
My best guess as to what the problem is here is that their con guide is very strangely designed. The schedule is actually a separate piece of paper and is not included in the standard convention bag. In addition, there is no descriptions for any of the panels on the day's schedule. It is ridiculous.
I do not think I will be attending PMX next year in any capacity.
Having to explain the difference between Price of admission, being forced to do something, and punishment for noncompliance to someone who is presumably a grown adult.
MyItLab is fucking glitched and I can't submit my fucking homework and one assignment got a 0 because it didn't register that I answered the questions.
Yes I emailed my prof but it is still goddamn frustrating.
There's a facebook page called "I was born between 1980 and 1989, the last generation that made sense". I have two friends that like this page. They were both born in 1996.
Got praised by an ostensibly well-meaning person on a parenting forum for being so accepting of my gay daughter, because paraphrased, "after all, all you can do when things like this happen is mourn what would have been and pick up and move on."
Wat.
I mean, I think what they're trying to say is that you have to accept that your expectations aren't going to be met and get on with it, not literally mourn the fact that your child is homosexual, but holy crap. I never had any dressed up vignette of what my daughter's life should or would be, at least certainly not in the area of who and how she should love, so what the fuck? Are most people walking around with their kids' lives from birth to 50 planned out in excruciating detail?
If there's anything I'm worried about associated with my kid's orientation, it's that she'll have to interact with people like this who will discriminate against her with a smile on their face and a pat on her head.
If there's anything I'm worried about associated with my kid's orientation, it's that she'll have to interact with people like this who will discriminate against her with a smile on their face and a pat on her head.
Are most people walking around with their kids' lives from birth to 50 planned out in excruciating detail?
There's an old Armenian story that goes something like this:
This young girl was playing outside when she saw this big tree. Well, it was a nice day, so she sat under it and took a little nap. While she was napping, she dreamed about being older and having a son whom she named Gikos. She dreamed that Gikos climbed that same tree and sat on a branch, but that the branch couldn't hold him and, so, he fell off of the tree and died. Waking up from her dream, she began sobbing so loudly that her mother came to see what was the matter. When she asked, all her daughter would say though her sobs was "Gikos jan, Gikos!" (Gikos, my dear Gikos!).
Got into the Elder Scrolls Online beta, which I'd been pretty pumped about (I know, I know, it's probably a bad game, whatever). The beta's only good for the weekend, and I'll be gone all weekend for a convention.
I mean, the convention will be great, of course, but still, shitty timing.
There are few things worse than a bigot who is stubbornly proud of being a bigot. Now we're in the "just being realistic about society" phase of the non-argument.
These hacks are trying to raise $100k to create a prototype of a handheld "food scanner" that'll use Raman Spectroscopy to show you what's in the food you're about to eat. Everything about this project screams investment scam: They're claiming to package it as a $150 consumer-grade product, they lack a single person with scientific/technical background on their team, the CEO is supposedly worth $75 million but can't come up with $100k for seed money, they don't have any sort of working proof-of-concept, and as a final bonus, their CEO's last big project was an anti-aging clinic in Beverly Hills.
They've raised over $200k with 10 days left to go.
Hopefully they just used this as a way to transfer illegal money and that many people didn't actually donate to this thing.
They have a Facebook page where they've hosted referral contests - person who gets the most friends to donate to the campaign gets a free Tellspec. They're definitely not trying to keep this on the DL.
Hopefully they just used this as a way to transfer illegal money and that many people didn't actually donate to this thing.
They have a Facebook page where they've hosted referral contests - person who gets the most friends to donate to the campaign gets a free Tellspec. They're definitely not trying to keep this on the DL.
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Replaced the rj45 cable from the modem to the wall plug, it fooled me for 2 hours of internet freedom and then the connection started dropping again, haven't been able to time the drops yet. Looks like I need another modem.
What a wash.
Now, the hallways of the con were well populated. It looked, by all appearances to be a pretty hoppin convention. But OH EM EFFING GEE was panel attendance low. And not just for me, either. I talked to a lot of the other panelists and even some of the special guests of the convention and they all told me how surprised they were of the attendance. Average audience sizes were from the single digits up to the twenties. And these are in rooms that could hold about 100-150 people. I have performed at Anime LA, Equestria LA, and Anime Expo for the past year and a half and, with only one exception, the rooms have filled to capacity and people were turned away EVERY TIME.
I actually had to delay my audio drama workshop for about 10-15 minutes BECAUSE THERE WAS NO AUDIENCE UNTIL THEN.
My best guess as to what the problem is here is that their con guide is very strangely designed. The schedule is actually a separate piece of paper and is not included in the standard convention bag. In addition, there is no descriptions for any of the panels on the day's schedule. It is ridiculous.
I do not think I will be attending PMX next year in any capacity.
Yes I emailed my prof but it is still goddamn frustrating.
Wat.
I mean, I think what they're trying to say is that you have to accept that your expectations aren't going to be met and get on with it, not literally mourn the fact that your child is homosexual, but holy crap. I never had any dressed up vignette of what my daughter's life should or would be, at least certainly not in the area of who and how she should love, so what the fuck? Are most people walking around with their kids' lives from birth to 50 planned out in excruciating detail?
If there's anything I'm worried about associated with my kid's orientation, it's that she'll have to interact with people like this who will discriminate against her with a smile on their face and a pat on her head.
This young girl was playing outside when she saw this big tree. Well, it was a nice day, so she sat under it and took a little nap. While she was napping, she dreamed about being older and having a son whom she named Gikos. She dreamed that Gikos climbed that same tree and sat on a branch, but that the branch couldn't hold him and, so, he fell off of the tree and died.
Waking up from her dream, she began sobbing so loudly that her mother came to see what was the matter. When she asked, all her daughter would say though her sobs was "Gikos jan, Gikos!" (Gikos, my dear Gikos!).
In short, yes.
I mean, the convention will be great, of course, but still, shitty timing.
I've used Git on Windows before and admittedly it does work, but it's so much more painful than it needs to be.
There are few things worse than a bigot who is stubbornly proud of being a bigot. Now we're in the "just being realistic about society" phase of the non-argument.
Aaaaaaand I'm done. :P
These hacks are trying to raise $100k to create a prototype of a handheld "food scanner" that'll use Raman Spectroscopy to show you what's in the food you're about to eat. Everything about this project screams investment scam: They're claiming to package it as a $150 consumer-grade product, they lack a single person with scientific/technical background on their team, the CEO is supposedly worth $75 million but can't come up with $100k for seed money, they don't have any sort of working proof-of-concept, and as a final bonus, their CEO's last big project was an anti-aging clinic in Beverly Hills.
They've raised over $200k with 10 days left to go.