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Sara and Alan must be asleep at the switch! There is no justest.<br>
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Guilty as charged.<br>
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Roland Walker wrote:
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<pre wrap=""> There is no reason to call people names Roland.
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On the contrary Louis! I can think of dozens of reasons to call you
names like "cranky old coot" or "eccentric geezer" -- but I would
never do so, because those names would violate the posting guidelines!
But, since certain names can apparently get past the moderators, let
me list some reasons I might call you a Nerd
* You personally own a four-character dictionary-word dotcom domain name (!)
* You are dually credentialed with Nerd degrees in both computer and audio
* You have an entire business devoted to your nerdy audio hobby
* During the last town election, you tested each candidate's
website against the
W3C markup validator at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://validator.w3.org">http://validator.w3.org</a>
Ride shotgun with me next weekend, Louis. I'm going to cruise College
Park to check their fiber-optic lines. We can break for lunch at
College Perk Coffeehouse, where we can update our livejournals over
the WiFi. Do you think they have support for 802.11n?
R
On 8/13/07, Lou King <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:lking@knob.com"><lking@knob.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap=""> Dear Hopeless Nerd,
I sure hope verizon will provide better service here than my daughter
received in VA. (Yes, nerdeness tech savvy is hereditary) To shorten the
long saga, installation did not go well (4 days off work), she gave up on
the internet connection after 3 months and now is shopping for cable. Tech
support is dismal/nonexistent. On the other hand the phone does work. Of
course, being a workaholic she's never at home to answer it. Most of her
friends gave up during installation.
I understand the internet was like the girl with the curl in the middle of
her forehead - "When she was good she was vary vary good, But when she was
bad she was horrid! My daughter got tired of paying for what she wasn't
getting and verizon agreed they couldn't provide reliable service. Really
sad.
On the other hand I get DSL from my ISP. I let them deal with verizon (who
of course owns all the wires). The difference is that their verizon bill is
MUCH bigger than mine; When they speak someone listens. They can also test
the connection towards me and tell verizon where the signal stops.
There is no reason to call people names Roland. They will turn the monitor
button on if you can't be nice!
another HN
Roland Walker wrote:
Last year, the town granted a cable television franchise to Verizon,
in anticipation of Verizon bringing their FIOS fiber-optic service to
our area. FIOS can carry internet, voice, and video. See
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www22.verizon.com/Content/ConsumerFiOS">http://www22.verizon.com/Content/ConsumerFiOS</a>
I drove throughout town today, checking for where the fiber optic
lines were installed (a neighbor showed me how to identify them).
Definitely more than half of the streets have been cabled -- probably
up to 75%.
I believe there are some other hopeless nerds in town who, like me,
think that this is momentous news.
Note to the nerds: sending this to the list allows us all to pretend
that I don't already know *exactly* who you are.
R
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