Well when I first saw the title I thought it meant the activity here was slow,

Guess not, eh?

For me, my innernet connection at home sucks, it is ADSL, which was pretty good 16 years ago, but with today’s web experience that leverages the high speed fiber optic experience that most people have, most web pages are slow for me.

The kicker is that Comcast hung brand new fiber in my area a few years ago, but it stops about a mile from my house. They say thee aren’t enough customers on the dead end road we live on to justify the expense to bring it that last mile.

Greedy bastards.

When I am on my phone, in town, everything is blazing fast. Even in The Big Shed, which is essentially a giant faraday cage, but the company has an AT&T network inside, so great throughput.

 

 

 

 

 

Off topic - I had to build a Faraday cage from copper mesh to get a CD player to work way back when.  You could hear the local radio station on the land line in our apartment, the complex was right next to an antenna.  (I am not sure how that worked either since it should have needed a tuner.  But the voices were there...).  I bought a CD player, took it home, loaded it up (one of those 6 at a time jobbies), and it wouldn't play.  I took it back to the store and they tried it and it played.  Took it home, still didn't work.  The radio over the phone line had always bothered me so it was in mind.  I had access to copper mesh so built a tube of mesh around the CD player and it worked.  One of those weird things where book learning actually had real world value.  Never actually figured out which component was affected.  

 

Edited January 20, 20223 yr by Zed Head

Same thing happened to Spinal Tarp.

 

5 hours ago, Zed Head said:

I am not sure how that worked  But the voices were there...

Suuuuuuuuure they were.   

I'm learning new stuff. "Faraday cage", "Spinal Tarp" and "land line".

I'll google this and be smarter. 

6 minutes ago, siteunseen said:

I'm learning new stuff. "Faraday cage", "Spinal Tarp" and "land line".

I'll google this and be smarter. 

Just be sure to wear your tin foil hat when you Google the terms and you'll be fine.  😎

CO posted a time stamp version.  The tarp is at the beginning.  Before "working on a sex farm, plowing through your bean field".  

 

53 minutes ago, siteunseen said:

I'm learning new stuff. "Faraday cage", "Spinal Tarp" and "land line".

I'll google this and be smarter. 

Looks like you survived COVID, I hope. 

20 hours ago, Zed Head said:

Looks like you survived COVID, I hope. 

I did the rapid test at my physician's office this morning and the results were negative. Never have I been so happy to go back to work!

Initially I had the PCR test that came back positive so I quarantined for 10 days and had another PCR test. Still detected Covid. Then I talked with my pharmacist and my doctor's PA. They said the PCR would show the slightest amount for up to and even beyond 4 weeks. So the lesson here for me, to get the negative result, was after your symptoms are gone and you've done the 10 day quarantine get the rapid antigen test. The free money days are over for Covid and I have a mortgage plus a Datsun diZease.

This turned my world upside down for almost 2 weeks and I was only sick for 48 hours. 

The dead giveaway for me were the night sweats so pay attention to that and keep your mouth shut. It's hard not to talk about being positive but not something you really want to share, at least for me. People are scared.

1 hour ago, siteunseen said:

The free money days are over for Covid and I have a mortgage plus a Datsun diZease.

This turned my world upside down for almost 2 weeks and I was only sick for 48 hours. 

Rough when you have a job that you can't do from home when you have to quarantine and feel well enough to get on with life.  

Glad you're ok Cliff! I had it in 2020. It took a while to get fully over it.

Glad you’re better Cliff. The library was getting out of sorts with you gone.


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Happy to hear your OK Cliff, Do you know if it was the omicron variant?  or delta?  If you did'nt loose taste i believe you had the omicron..

Btw..

ON topic.. @Mike I don't complain about the slow site, i'm here on a free ride and glad that i can do this for free! (i'm sitting home now for almost 22 years.. can't do much anymore so i'm glad to communicate with you guys about the hobby.)  But i have not seen a reaction on here from you Mike since Zedhead started this topic..  Is there nothing you can do about it?  Just asking.. i just clicked a topic and it just did'nt load ever.. then this topic and it loaded on the spot.. this is weird to say the least.. is'nt it?

 

Hey Cliff.. i can imagine how happy you were when you could go to work! I wish i could to but i'm "o3" forever......  (Yeah i wanted to use a abriv.. 😉 )