After many years on dialup, I’ve spent the last two days installing a high-speed wireless network at Chez Jackelope. My throat is painfully dry from all the cursing, but aside from that things are working pretty well.
What have I been missing out on? What cool stuff can I do that I haven’t even realized yet? Bring on the suggestions; I’m watching StrongBad e-mails and trucking through the Internet Archive, and I no longer fear Flash.
Go to earth.google.com (google ‘google earth’ if that url isn’t correct) and download the program. You can zoom in anyplace in the world. You can even put in two addresses and watch as the program ‘dirves’ you there - the map turns when you are supposed to make a turn and everything. It’s pretty neat.
Snowboarder Bo, I like the music. It’s not really my genre, but the “Half Pipe or Half Full” song was cool; I’ll send the link to my wife, who likes that trip-hop type stuff more than I do.
Then go to www.japander.com and watch stuffy american celebrities like Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt embarrass themselves in insane Japanese commercials.
Neatest thing that I’ve seen lately. A coyote stalking a man. This guy is walking and filming, and everytime he stops, you can hear the coyote behind him.
Yes, it is a startle video, with a sudden noise and something that jumps up at the last second. Unregistered Bull, those are (a) not funny, and (b) frowned upon by the mods around here.
I swear, I do not understand the point of trying to startle someone when you don’t get to see their reaction.
Google Earth is a disaster for me, constantly crashes…
Google Maps, however, must be a nightmare on dialup but is wonderful on broadband… maps.google.com, maps.google.co.uk etc. for the regional variants.
Y’know, I just upgraded to broadband in early June. So, in the last couple of months, I finally set out to download…
•Episodes of “Red vs. Blue” and “Happy Tree Friends.”
•The Batman fan-films “Grayson” and “Dead End.”
•Demos for Halo, Battlefield 1942, and Postal 2.
•The Civil War mod for Medal of Honor. (Multiplayer only, which I haven’t actually tried, yet. Ever. But I did play around solo on some levels, and I actually got to use a muzzle-loading smoothbore musket in a FPS! It takes 20 seconds to reload, with full animation! How much geeky fun is THAT?)
•Samples of iTunes songs, without having to wait two minutes per clip.
•Countless Mp3s.*
*…from iTunes and Amazon’s free song download pages.
It was well recieved by others with a sense a humour on other boards. I enjoyed it myself the first time around. I could also see way more folks getting in trouble at work for opening links to the Victoria Secrets catalog and other non-nude T&A links that seem acceptable. :rolleyes:
Of course one of those differences can be not finding something to be a funny experience and finding someting to be a funny experience. But I won’t do again. It appears to be against the rules. I sure didn’t intend to do it to be mean or to get someone in trouble at work. I enjoyed it and was simply passing it on. I had no idea that it would have been that traumatic. I won’t let it happen again.