I was cleaning the attic with (e:terry) in prep for the new roof and
found a couple surprises.

1. The squirrels have eaten have re insulation which I think leads to
number 4.

2. A new sumac tree started growing in the chimney and was removed.

3. Who the frick, fucked in my cage? I never had sex in there but
someone at one of our parties must have and left a yellow used condom
in it which melted to the floor. Thanks jerk. At first, it just
looked like some debris so I picked it up to throw it out. It then
melted to my hand as it has somehow started to degrade. Ya I had to
use mineral spirits to remove it, yuck.

4. Just when roadkill started to get cliche, I bring you attic kill.
I wondered where those flies were coming from.

There is really no excuse for me to be such an idiot, I am a computer guy after all and I was bamboolzed by the verizon marketing gimmick. For some I thought 20/5 FIOS was 20MBps download by 5MBps upload. I couldn't understand why I was getting uploads speeds of only 500KBps for upload on the server. Turns out its 20 mbps/5 mbps. Notice the lowercase, it then read as bits where the bytes were. Read more about bits and bytes here

e.g. What they should say is that verizon high speed business FIOS is 2 MBps down by 0.5 MBps up but who wants to advertise in 0.5 when 20/5 sounds so much sexier.

Here you can see the results I am currently getting from speakeasy speedtests on the server:

Last Result:
Download Speed: 19397 kbps (2424.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 3049 kbps (381.1 KB/sec transfer rate

I mean I thought it was too good to be true. Now I am wonder if I ever even needed FIOS to begin with as the backups aren't that much faster than they would be dedicated with DSL or cable. I mean for a server its only the upload speed that matters.

Arghs.

I have been so busy with work. It seems to somehow take up my entire life on most days. Lots of awesome stuff got done but mostly I am just tired right now.

The roof is going to start this or next week. There goes $20,000 - at last it isn't the $30,000 I thought it was going to be.

My work is making me use a blackberry because the iphone is too insecure

The upside is that he blackerry is for work only and comes with tethering which which means my iphone's battery will probably last longer.

I found this awesome ibm site that tracks visualizations. Its pretty neat.

It's 12:45am and that blur near the street is my neighbor who just started mowing his lawn. What the fuck?!

It's been going on for like 40 minutes, at first I thought it was a helicopter but then it just kept going.

I am so freaking angry about this. It ruined almost every pear ;(. I
wonder if the insides will be okay?