How about a couple?
What Do You Really Do At Work?
Face it: you spend less than 1% of your day at work doing actual work, and 99.9% of your day doing other crap.
Want To Get As Far Away From The Golden Arches As Possible?
If you mapped all the McDonalds in the US and wanted to live the farthest away from one, it looks like a spot in South Dakota is the place to be at 107 miles from the nearest Big Mac.
Time Killer For The Evening
It’s low-res, but a helluva lot of fun: it’s Pixel.
BendBroadband Launches Stupidly Fast Internet, Odd Logo, Still Caps Bandwidth
You can read the full press release here, but long story short, BBB is taking advantage of DOCSIS 3.0 to push up to 60mbs download. I would assume you will need a new modem for both the 25mbs and 60mbs products. I would guess that most BendBroadband clients probably have a DOCSIS 2.0 modem that looks something like this, and DOCSIS 2.0 isn’t built for this kind of speed.
While the higher speeds are great (though expensive for me, but competitive for similar services), it just means you’ll hit the BBB Bandwidth Cap faster. They did raise the cap to 150 GB on the highest end 60mbs, up from 100GB on their lower-end plans).
And while 60mbs is fast and all, many servers aren’t serving data that fast. This site is on a true 100mbs ethernet connection, but many aren’t (this site was on a 10mbs connection before), so while the 60mbs speed is a bit more than 400% faster than the plan I’m on, the likelihood of seeing 400% faster download speeds is pretty slim (unless you’re torrenting, which will pull data from a variety of locations, and then you might saturate it).
This comes the same day as their new logo design and branding. I don’t know if I’m a huge fan of “the dog”. I just can’t imagine rebranding all your vehicles and building signage — that can’t be cheap.
Discuss/comment below, with more comments over at DSLReports, mostly from out-of-towners.
Note: I know this happened all a couple days ago, according to the press release dates, but I’ve been out of town. Also note: I like the folks at BendBroadband as well as the folks at other local high-end ISPs like BendTel and Quantum. BBB’s service has served me well for years. They even advertised on this site for years (anybody want that spot?). They’re good folks, I just wonder about the decisions being made there sometimes.
Time Killer For The Night
Max likes to destroy things. Help him achieve Maximum Damage.
When You Mess With A Bull…
…the bull will always win. Always. Otherwise you’ll end up showing your personal parts for the whole world to see.
Looking Back, The Legend Of Zelda Seemed Like a Bad Acid Trip
I mentioned before that I’ve a bit of an old-school Zelda geek who worked my butt off to finish both quests of the original Zelda. I haven’t touched the game since I was a kid, but it’s fun to look back and remember how hilariously odd some of the items, bosses, characters, and enemies were.
What if Video Games Were Realistic?
Reality and video games don’t always mix. As an old Zelda fan, number 18 is probably my favorite.
Disappearing
I’m heading out of town on a last-minute mini-trip to the coast, visiting some family over there who I rarely see and may not have many more chances to see. Will be mostly offline until Sunday. Everybody play nice.