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Growing Up In Fargo, ND

Opening Your Eyes to The Internet

Buy WIFI
Here I am trying to write my blog from a remote location, squatting on someone’s open WIFI.  I guess you could say it technically works, but not very well.  Simple pages take minutes to load. My brother just got back from a military deployment to Qatar (note…one of the few words with a ‘Q’ in it without a ‘u’ next to it).  He was there for a little more than a month.  He was working 12 hour days, 6 days a week…and in his spare time he ran.  He likes the internet, and there was not much to be had over there.  Just a few hot spots on base.  This was sort of a bummer since he came loaded for bear: iTouch, iPhone, and laptop.  OK, I gr

How The Other Half Lives
It has been a crazy week at work.  I have been doing a training workshop which runs from 8a-5p and then still have to find a way to jam out the weather for the rest of the day on all the multiple platforms we perform it on these days.  The training has been beneficial, but the upshot is that I have been getting home at 8pm or later. I almost never get the 1

“Where are you from little girl?”
Took my kids trick or treating this past weekend.  Had all the regular experiences:  house too spooky to go to the door, someone how handed out chips, the house with the full sized candy bars, and gleeful smiles of kids on a mission to generate cavities. The strangest one was when the kids went up to a house in a nice neighborhood and the residents quizzed them which street they lived on.  BZZZZTTT!  Nope, sorry folks you don’t get to ask that.  Here is why?  I know you only want local kids trick or treating at your home, but asking kids where they live is creepy information.  I tell my kids never to say.  Secondly, it is just plain rude.  I am sorry you bought your

HDMI and other cables…a racket
Yesterday I wrote about the lack of media at my girlfriend’s apartment.  Today I bought a new DVD player with an HDMI output for her HDTV.  Of course, it does NOT come with the cable.  It is offered separately for 17.99 for a 3ft cable or 27.99 for a 6ft cable.  Absolutely, patently, ridiculous. There must be a Star Chamber fixing the price of these at stores.  Online you can get these cables for about 6 bucks, but who wants to wait a week to hook up a new purchase? This is nothing new

no WIFI, no TV, no DVD
My girlfriend got a new place and nothing is hooked up, and it is driving me nuts.  The title says ‘no WIFI’ but there is plenty, just all with the encryption turned on.  There are one or two transmitters that are open, but I think they are in Madagascar judging on their signal strength.  So, I dig for my phone which is on the NEXTEL network.  If you want to know how plussed I am about that please read the prior post.  I feel like I am in t