I appear to have solved my networking problems that none of you know I was experiencing. The “autodetect” feature was not working correctly. Setting it manually to 10baseT increased my bandwidth 10-fold. I don’t need gigabit ethernet, but I do want to be able to download faster than 30 k/s.
Interviewer: I’m curious, have you ever Googled anybody? Do you use Google?
Bush: Occasionally. One of the things I’ve used on the Google is to pull up maps. It’s very interesting to see -— I’ve forgot the name of the program - but you get the satellite, and you can - like, I kinda like to look at the ranch. It reminds me of where I wanna be sometimes.
I can see how you might forget that name.
One of those stupid credit card miles commercials has people going on vacation in Antarctica. At the end the dude says something about it being walrus mating season. The problem is that walrus don’t live in the Antarctic. They are restricted to the northern hemisphere.
I’m not sure why it never occurred to me to do this before. I was watching Mallrats for the 20th time (or so), and I paused it when Willem is trying the magic eye poster. The poster is supposed to show a sailboat or schooner, but when you fuse the images, it is not at all a sailboat. It’s just a bunch of geometric shapes. There is a row of cones at the bottom and then two rows of what look like flowers (but not enough like flowers to be flowers). No boat - that is for sure.
I hadn’t really thought about the fact that there was supposed to be just one image. These posters rarely have just one image, because it is impossible to fuse an image that large. You would have to stand too far away, and then you would lose perception of the depth that makes them seem 3d. They usually have repeating images, spaced about 10 cm apart, which is about the distance between your eyes.