Thunder!

Yes, you read that right! It’s… raining!

It hasn’t rained a “measurable amount” (as the weather service says) here since June, so it’s been a while! And thunder, to boot!

YES!

Comcast Sucks, Again

Yep, comcast is sucking today once again, and much worse this time. Pings from a few moments ago:

--- yahoo.com ping statistics ---
156 packets transmitted, 100 packets received, +4 duplicates, 35% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 20.443/2443.189/24998.629/5055.897 ms

--- jcole.us ping statistics ---
141 packets transmitted, 109 packets received, +1 duplicates, 22% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 68.351/477.976/5021.407/929.860 ms

Do note the +4 and +1 duplicates. Heh.

Tasty Hot Dogs

“Tasty Hot Dogs” — If you grew up in midwest America, that’s probably not a phrase you would imagine constructing. I’m pretty sure, in all my young and impressionable years, that I never had a hot dog I would have considered to be “tasty”, but they do indeed exist!

Hebrew National makes some of the tastiest hot dogs I’ve ever had. So tasty, in fact, that it’s almost wrong to call them “hot dogs” (and in fact they don’t, they’re strictly called “Beef Franks”). They’re Kosher, so they only use certain good parts of the meat, which makes an amazing difference. They have no preservatives. They’re a healthy red color instead of a sickening pink, and they smell good even before you cook them. They taste incredibly good.

Now, if only I could figure out why they put seven in a package. What do I do with the extra bun?

Coolest Bum Ever

This guy ruled. We saw him around Union Square, San Francisco, California. He was actually really funny, talking to and about everyone passing by, and singing songs like “You’re a Cheap Bastard”. “I like money… I even like Euros!”

Best… bum… ever! We gave him a dollar for the entertainment value.

I’m Hot

Rob and I went to “The Tech” Museum of Innovation in downtown San Jose on Friday. It was okay, but mostly oriented towards younger kids than ourselves. There were still lots of fun toys to play with, though. There are various places where you can create web pages, have your picture taken, etc., and with a wave of the RFID tag they supply you, you can get to it later. I saved this nice picture of me taken with a videotherm camera.