Where in the World is Bob Saget?

[PUSH]

Turns out I can use the internet when installing this.

 

[JenniferS]

Miss Wisconsin won a couple years back. One of the few females in the state who aren't cows!

Oh my.

 

[PUSH]

The chicken fat song commercial is on.

 

[Lucky]

Miss Wisconsin won a couple years back. One of the few females in the state who aren't cows!

Miss Wisconsin made the final 10 also. But I'm not watching anymore. Too much suspense I guess.

 

[PUSH]

Oh my.

Cows out-populate humans and trash cans here.

Or at least that's the scenario I made up in my head.

 

[PUSH]

We're nearing 50,000 posts! Oh, how far we've come.

 

[Soarin' Over Pgh]

So. Tired. But caught up on thraed.

Bedtime. If I can drag myself there.

Night y'all.

 

[Gabe1]

It just rained like heck here so you should be getting it soon.

We got that rain overnight about 1/2 inch which meant I didn't have to water today. Yay!

 

[JenniferS]

We got that rain overnight about 1/2 inch which meant I didn't have to water today. Yay!

Here too. Yay!
Unsettled weather all week. Not so yay.

 

[Gabe1]

There's no way I could save enough with tuition to pay every semester.

And that is why my DS did the college program for a semester. He earned 12 credit hours while at Disney and pulled all A's that semester. Win Win

 

[Gabe1]

Wait what's this? @PUSH is buying everyone plane tickets, new luggage, and hotels for a week two weeks and giving us $1000 each for souvenirs?

Sign me up!

This trip just keeps getting better and better.

 

[Gabe1]

No my little cousins 6th birthday party. My bday is in February.

I still want some cake!

How does one cancel a little guys party?

 

[englanddg]

I went to Ikea today.

1) This lady was wearing lingerie bottoms with no underpants in public!



2) Noms noms for ya'll!

Lox with greens and a mustard and dill dressing!



Chicken and Orzo Soup



Swerdy Meatbulls with lingonberry sauce!



Chocolate Cake for dessert.



With soda and coffee, only $17 for the whole meal!

I was such a little piggy today.

 

[Gabe1]

Most places seem to only have one choice. Verizon was supposed to be the other choice in my state, but they quit adding fiber lines and refuse to finish them. So now there are lots of neighborhoods where one house can get Comcast or Fios and right next door can only get Comcast.

My little Hamlet has 2+1 choices, Uverse, Comcast and Direct/Dish.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Yup. That tends to be the case. We actually have zero choices for cable or fiber optic. Both Verizon and Comcast (the two options in our area) refuse to come down our street because there are only 6 houses on it and it is a cul-de-sac. Not worth the expense of running the cable/fiber-optic for just 6 houses. So, we have DirecTV and DSL for internet. I get consistently made fun of by friends and co-workers for still having DSL and being happy with it. Verizon only brought DSL to our area a few years ago. Yes, I really had dial up internet until about 2005. Some day we'll hit the 21st Century...

We had dial up until 2009. We now have Verizon Fios. Comcast was terrible. Not that I like Verizon that much (dropped their cell phone service years ago. Felt ripped off). Comcast was horrible, though.

 

[Cesar R M]

Is that their way of throwing a tantrum and pressuring the FCC to revise net neutrality?

Most probably, because they want the clients or the companies that use their infrastructure to pay premium.
which is BS as they already are paying for internet access.. the clients are paying to USE the infrastructure for whatever they want.
They complain about costs of services like netflix.. yet most of these ISPS are swimming in record profits...

I'm pretty sure they just want to kill netflix (just like the mayor music companies wants to kill the internet music stores) because it affects their TV and on-demand revenues (and Ad revenues).
Most of the ISPS that want to kill the net neutrality thing.. are the ones who are triple play and mostly cable companies with big megacorporations behind them ( Comcast for example)

 

[Gabe1]

Well, won't be seeing the aunt and the neices in Hilton Head. My aunt has to work. Including the weekend. So it'll be just us. Lovely.

In other news the Orioles got crushed today, my favorite player got ejected, and it seems the Orioles may have a new rivalry with Oakland after two bench-clearing brawls this weekend and unsportsman-like conduct on both sides.

Oh No. I'd be changing that timeshare to WDW. Oy

 

[englanddg]

Certain YouTube videos are loading for me. I thought it was YouTube's problem, but after Googling it, it sounds like it's my internet provider's problem. People around the country are having the same issue. I really hate only having one choice here.

There's a variety of things that could be causing issues like that. In transit (meaning, your ISP or more likely their peering partner) is one of them.

There are ways to test that though.

 

[Cesar R M]

Man....I finally get a night with enough time to visit with the good folks of this thraed and it would appear that everybody is so absorbed in the Tony awards that nobody is posting! And now it approaches the hour of my discontent (or just time to get to sleep to prep for 5am wake-up). Good evening to all and hopefully y'all will come back on and have a some fun tonight - or at least spend a few minutes talking about Neil Patrick Harris's performance a few minutes ago (certain images may keep me awake later than planned)!

To be honest, I was napping then waited.
Bbecause I had to pick up my mother from the bus station.

Yup. That tends to be the case. We actually have zero choices for cable or fiber optic. Both Verizon and Comcast (the two options in our area) refuse to come down our street because there are only 6 houses on it and it is a cul-de-sac. Not worth the expense of running the cable/fiber-optic for just 6 houses. So, we have DirecTV and DSL for internet. I get consistently made fun of by friends and co-workers for still having DSL and being happy with it. Verizon only brought DSL to our area a few years ago. Yes, I really had dial up internet until about 2005. Some day we'll hit the 21st Century...

I find it interesting that they are artificially keeping duopoly at most in most US cities ( or so I think.. that's what I get from reading complains from friends I know online)

Mexico back in 2000 to 2010 was pretty bad.. telmex was everywhere so it was a fixed monopoly.. they had ADSL services, but very expensive (99 USD plus modem plus phone).
then the networks opened and now theres at least 2 or 3 options now.

I am happily now in a 100Mbps/10Mbps cable*/fiber line.

 

[englanddg]

Is that their way of throwing a tantrum and pressuring the FCC to revise net neutrality?

Sort of. Putting it very simply...Some of it is also, since moving digital, cable providers are streaming their own content over the same lines. What I mean by that is, when you turn on your digital cable and watch TV, you are effectively eating bandwidth as well.

Here's something to ponder...regarding streaming video...

Netflix uses up around 1/3 of the bandwidth on the North American internet.