Despite at least four visits by Comcast’s highly-trained technicians, the Internet connection remains mostly down.  I can get email (over time), and respond to it (over time), but anything more serious than that is pretty much impossible. I’m growing a little bored with my vacation. This afternoon I went to the local library to grab […]

Internet connections very spotty now . . . haven’t been able get online all day. Replaced the cable modem but that wasn’t the problem. I am promised an actual cable guy sometime wednesday. My only option is to use my phone, as I am now. Kindly have patience while I smash furniture in frustration.

As I mentioned in an recent post, European scientists are about to use huge megalasers to create a rip in spacetime. The U.S. Air Force has something a little more modest in mind.  They’ve just published a wish list of technologies they’d like to see developed, and one of them is a “Directed Energy Weed […]

Can anyone recommend a good .pdf to .doc and/or .rtf translator? I’ve tried a number of them, and they all load the resulting file with massive amounts of formatting clutter, which make it (among other things) impossible to produce a decent result while working in e-formats. Friend of the blog TJIC managed to fix Hardwired […]