Back from Korea.
No evil monkeys.
Also, back from Viet Nam and New Zealand.
No evil monkeys.
End report.
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Natter 36: But We Digress...
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Gus - Jul 11, 2005 8:50:07 pm PDT #8983 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
dcp - Jul 11, 2005 8:55:29 pm PDT #8984 of 10001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Any volunteer house-sitters there to greet you this time?
Gus - Jul 11, 2005 8:58:58 pm PDT #8985 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Nothing to report on the house-sitters front, either.
Boring trip. There were a number of short people.
Volans - Jul 11, 2005 9:21:11 pm PDT #8986 of 10001
move out and draw fire
That mirrors my own observation about Viet Nam, so I can only imagine it was even more so for you. Welcome back!
Gus - Jul 11, 2005 9:41:37 pm PDT #8987 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Thanks, Raquel.
South Korea was incredibly "wired". Everyone was online, every where, all the time. Much more so than the States. It was 4 to 6 MB, 24/7. Viet Nam was all 9600 BAUD. New Zealand was like DSL, kinda there, but not really.
eta: When your appreciation of the world is reduced to descriptions of various bandwidths, you might begin to wonder about how much time you spend online.
flea - Jul 11, 2005 10:13:54 pm PDT #8988 of 10001
information libertarian
new zealand? viet nam? south korea ? i think gus is stalking meara.
cat does not wish me to type
Consuela - Jul 11, 2005 10:20:15 pm PDT #8989 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Gus! Welcome back!
Where in NZ did you go?
Gus - Jul 11, 2005 10:36:22 pm PDT #8990 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Hi, 'Suela! I visited my boy and his family in Auckland.
I am woefully behind the news. Meara was in all those places this past while? No wonder some of them felt cool.
Trudy Booth - Jul 11, 2005 10:37:30 pm PDT #8991 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Welcome back, Gus!
Welcome back welcome back welcome baaaaack...
South Korea was incredibly "wired". Everyone was online, every where, all the time. Much more so than the States. It was 4 to 6 MB, 24/7. Viet Nam was all 9600 BAUD. New Zealand was like DSL, kinda there, but not really
I read an article a while ago about parts of the world that, having never had universal phone lines, skipped right ahead of the game communications tech wise. It's cheaper and easier to throw up cell towers (particularly in unstable areas) than it ever was to build a whole network of poles and lines.
I wonder if there is some element of that at play in Korea -- they were never all that wired so now they aren't renovating, they're skipping right to the good stuff?
Gus - Jul 11, 2005 10:57:58 pm PDT #8992 of 10001
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Yes, Trudy, I'd guess that South Korea skipped a few steps. I'm not sure they were exactly 'backward' to begin with. We could probably skip a few steps in the States, too.