The Voice of The Modem…
…is no longer heard in the land! At least not around here. Those of you who have had broadband for ever and a day could probably care less that the Hot Eye is now casting high-speed glances at the blogworld.
But I’ve gotta tell ya, after eighteen years of dial-up connections, starting at 1200 bps, DSL is a kick. I can now read Robert’s Virtual Soapbox without falling face forward onto my keyboard from the boredom of waiting for his images to download. Yay!
Now could someone out there in blogland help him to get his comments feature to work?
Incidentally, someone on NPR was talking about recording history and suggested that we certainly ought to archive at least one good ‘sound byte’ of the distinctive connection and handshake sound of a modem doing its thing.
It will fade into history just as the lonely wail of a steam locomotive whistle moaning in the night has. That was the loneliest, saddest, sound of my childhood and listening to a recording of it still gives me the shivers.
The Ten Commandments
Big argument in Phoenix about a monument to the Ten Commandments that’s in a state park opposite the Capitol. Usual suspects…ACLU vs Folks Who Support The Commandments in just about every way except their meticulous observance.
Might be a good idea if we also put up examples of The Ten Punishments. For instance these might catch folk’s attention. God knows the commandments by themselves aren’t working.
Exodus 21:17 "And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death." Take that, you smart-mouth kids!
Leviticus 20:10 "And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death."
He Blogs Not, Neither Does He Write
I haven’t been doing much of either. Of course I had a couple of days of down time getting the family computers networked, and then I played around surfing, but now I seem to hear the ominous sucking sound of cash leaving a soon-to-implode bank account. It’s nose to the grindstone time.
