InterNOT
12/17/06
Yes, it's been a while since anything changed on this page. But I'm still
alive and wiggling so all is not lost. It's just hiding. I poked my head out
from under my rock to announce that I now have internot access at my place.
You read that right...interNOT. Not to be confused with internaut (one who
sails the inters) or internaught (lack of inter) or internut (me).
[An aside: I wonder if there is a word for words where you use a part of a word to modify the word itself. For example, in Once Upon a Time in Mexico, one big mean guy asked another big mean guy if he was a Mexi-can or a Mexi-can't. Something like that. It's interesting because you can do that with the countries in North America. Are you a Mexi-can or a Mexi-can't? Or maybe you're an Ameri-can, but failing that, you'd become an Ameri-can't. Or perhaps I mistook you for an unable Can-adian, which would make you a Can't-adian. Not too many other continents feature this sort of wordplay.]
My internot service provider (I!SP) is the mecca of local geekology, Fries Electronics. Yup, they offer internot service and it's about as good as their customer service. It's so slow I can't consider it internet access anymore. Man, dial-up is so hopelessly slow. I don't know how we used to live with it. But to be fair, I think web pages today are really not designed for dial-up connections. One page can load pictures and text from many different hosts, each one requiring a DNS lookup through a tube that's barely big enough to fit a Harro World page. Not to mention pop-up ads chewing up even more bandwidth. But I wonder if companies are designing their web pages assuming that its users have a fast connection. I've heard reports that very few homes in the United States have broadband. (I'd look up and link to one such report to justify my claim but I'd be mummified by the time I found a link with this connection.) If that's the case, then many of these sites which are catering to Americans are hope for visits from people who don't have a hope of loading the page. Or maybe it's just me and my crappy connection.
The good side of this is that I've played a lot of solitaire while waiting for web pages to load and I've gotten quite good at it.
OK, back to my rock.
[An aside: I wonder if there is a word for words where you use a part of a word to modify the word itself. For example, in Once Upon a Time in Mexico, one big mean guy asked another big mean guy if he was a Mexi-can or a Mexi-can't. Something like that. It's interesting because you can do that with the countries in North America. Are you a Mexi-can or a Mexi-can't? Or maybe you're an Ameri-can, but failing that, you'd become an Ameri-can't. Or perhaps I mistook you for an unable Can-adian, which would make you a Can't-adian. Not too many other continents feature this sort of wordplay.]
My internot service provider (I!SP) is the mecca of local geekology, Fries Electronics. Yup, they offer internot service and it's about as good as their customer service. It's so slow I can't consider it internet access anymore. Man, dial-up is so hopelessly slow. I don't know how we used to live with it. But to be fair, I think web pages today are really not designed for dial-up connections. One page can load pictures and text from many different hosts, each one requiring a DNS lookup through a tube that's barely big enough to fit a Harro World page. Not to mention pop-up ads chewing up even more bandwidth. But I wonder if companies are designing their web pages assuming that its users have a fast connection. I've heard reports that very few homes in the United States have broadband. (I'd look up and link to one such report to justify my claim but I'd be mummified by the time I found a link with this connection.) If that's the case, then many of these sites which are catering to Americans are hope for visits from people who don't have a hope of loading the page. Or maybe it's just me and my crappy connection.
The good side of this is that I've played a lot of solitaire while waiting for web pages to load and I've gotten quite good at it.
OK, back to my rock.