The (Other) End of the Internet

The last stop on the information superhighway. All traffic must exit in 500 feet.

Archive for 2008/10


I’ve entered another contest

Welcome back!I’ve just entered another contest and this time it has nothing to do with photography. This time it’s a drawing for a 3-day 2-night vacation package in Branson Missouri. I looked on the website of the people supplying the prize and discovered that they have seven different vacation packages: the Great American package, the […]

An idea for a remake

The other night we were watching season one of Gilligan’s Island because Daughter Number Four got it as a gift a while back and it was her turn to choose what we watch.
Since that show doesn’t exactly require one’s undivided attention to follow, I started thinking about other shows that have been remade recently, such […]

My router is bizarre

When we upgraded to high-speed internet, our ISP gave us a Westell router that I think is on drugs. When it establishes a DSL connection, it reports
DSL Connect Rate (Down/Up) 1728 Kbits/sec by 32 Kbits/sec
If, however, I leave it turned on but disconnect the phone line from it for a few […]

Come on, February

My daughters’ cell phone contracts ran out recently so we took the opportunity to upgrade their phones. After two years of use (or abuse, as the case my be) these poor phones were in sad shape. One of them feels as though the keypad has been cleaned with steel wool and neither of them will […]

My Plan is working

Remember about three weeks ago when I came up with My Master Plan for a certain online photo contest? It’s going exactly as I predicted.
My idea was to pick a truly awful picture to submit and see if it got the same raves as the “okay” picture I submitted the previous month. Here’s the picture […]