homer! welcome back!
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homer! welcome back!
An ISP just became available in my area. I will no longer be forced to use DSL, I will have 300Mbps fiber optic!
I'm using a cell phone tethered to a Surface Pro in a remote, but very nice, area. Fiber....I've got plenty of that.
I was watching an episode of Alone on history channel, its a survival show with a $500k reward at the end. There was a guy who started eating bark off of a tree by boiling it in water first. When he was doing it, I armchair quarterbacked and said "ohh man, that's too much fiber". Sure enough he went home because he couldn't pass a BM.
Try it and well watch to see if you disappear from the forum..... ;):bigyello:Quote:
Originally Posted by homer13j
Nice....Welcome to the club. We have been waiting for your arrival.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
I was born today 30 years ago.
It feels like just yesterday I was 29.
Youth.
Time will start passing faster and faster for you, now.
That's a shame. I was just getting accustomed to the current pace.
You must be real popular at birthday parties.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Yeah. It's uplifting.
I remember some study on the subject of perceived time. It seems to go faster as you get older such that your perceived middle age is about 27.
A ship broke in two off the coast of Japan. https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/...130154998.html
The ship breaking a part is terrible but I couldn't help but laugh when I read what the cargo was. It was carrying wood chips. If you got to go to sea, a ship full of wood is the cargo I'd want. lol
Joyeux anniversaire DDay9 !Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLL_d3S56zo
A ship full of coconut husks might never sink.
Merci mon ami!
Maybe the cargo had the same flaws that the liberty ships (https://metallurgyandmaterials.wordp...ship-failures/)Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
Time arouses me.
Is that really snow in your avatar?
There was a time when we had snows in our avatars but I can't recall who made them for us.
Yeah, I knew about the problem with the Liberty ships. Many of them were made just 75 miles from where I live. There is Liberty ship kept at San Francisco's Fishermans Wharf.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delaney
Bonker Gudd did - right? [edit] oops - I was wrong - EyeMonkey did mine [/edit]Quote:
Originally Posted by dee-u
https://www.vbforums.com/showthread....=1#post2083393
So...the liberty ship...is not at liberty?Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
Challenge accepted!Quote:
Originally Posted by brad jones
@homer - I was watching Forged in Fire and saw a contestant that made me double-take. He looked almost exactly like you (or at least your FB profile).
I'm getting 150Mbps off of my extender in my room, which is where I work out of, and roughly 300Mbps in the living room, which is where the modem is.
Compared to what I had, my internet is blazing fast!
I'm supposed to be getting "up to" 400mbps but in reality it's usually less than half that unless it's 3-4am. Still beats the 20-25 mbps I was paying $10/month more than I am now. It's that "up to" phrase that gives them the excuse.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
I'm supposed to get up to 40...and I do.
I'd show you my long fiber optic, but then i would get banned again :bigyello:Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
Yeah, that would be bad optics.
an optical fiber has a diameter of 125µm...:rolleyes: not sure a reason to get banned :D
Anybody who talks in micrometers...well, that just seems like it is too petty to be banned over.
If time arouses Bonker, I wonder what Jacob whipping out his long fiber optic will do to him.
You guys really know how to twist long things around into really thin pensi's. Think we use to call them pensi's to avoid ban hammers back in the ol' vbforum days.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
As if that would work.
I'd say it was to avoid the built-in word censor.
What you wrote is the textual equivalent of superman putting on those stupid glasses: As if that would fool ANYONE.
Now that I think about it, which I admit I haven't before, if what Superman was doing would work, then anytime I put on my sunglasses, everybody would think I was a stranger.