2008 March

If you live in California or Arizona, your nearby recently-remodeled Jack in the Box restaurant might be offering free wi-f
They lie.
The price you pay is having to eat at Jack in the Box.
Too steep for me.

Unlike most of Boobus Americus, I don’t spend every waking moment in front of the tv.  However, every once in a while, something catches my attention as it did today.
There is a commercial for a seafood fast food place that starts with three people sitting at an outdoor table, then getting pounded with hundreds of [...]

The team at the University of Minnesota said the void is nearly a billion light-years across and they have no idea why it is there.
I lack a fundamental understanding of quantum reality, but I tend to go with my gut.  It turns out to be pretty accurate, which may just be quantum-related in itself.
The UofM [...]

Famous blind guitarist Jeff Healey passed away over the weekend (3/2/08) from cancer.
You might remember him from the movie Roadhouse. He played sitting, with the guitar flat in his lap. Apparently he didn’t know people didn’t play that way.
He was pretty talented and we’ll all miss him.

So we have to install some phones in the new area.  The phone people are coming in two days.  As such, we have to make a few changes to the network the night before.  Per policy, we announce we’re going to shut down the network at 5pm on the following evening.
You’d have thought I was [...]