Router/modem bit the dust, new one hopefully arriving soon
Our gateway (the router/modem thingy from AT&T) bit the dust Friday night. Kelvin claims my torrents broke it, even though 1) I don’t download that much anymore now that I’m low on TVtorrents credits (because the router sucks and I can’t upload to get more credits), 2) my torrents weren’t on when it died, and 3) Kelvin was playing TF2 when the router bit the dust. It’s been dying a slow and painful death. It would die randomly, and we couldn’t configure the router because any attempt to reconfigure the router would cause it to reboot. This time around, we asked AT&T for just the modem, and we’ll stick to using Kelvin’s Time Capsule thingy to do all the router stuff. No more of this stupid 2wire gateway crap. I’ve noticed we’ve had less interruptions in the video streaming from my PC to the PS3. So either the Time Capsule is a much more reliable router, or our PS3 doesn’t like Mad Men as much as Dexter.
Since we have no internet, that means no Team Fortress 2. Instead, we actually left the apartment last weekend to get some errands done. Kelvin upgraded his iPhone. Well, technically I upgraded to an iPhone 3G S since it was time for me to renew my contract anyway, Kelvin paid the $200 for the upgrade, he took my iPhone 3G S, and gave me his old iPhone 3G. So now I have an iPhone, which is pretty nice. Except I don’t have internet access, so I can’t download iTunes on my PC to sync it. I haven’t messed with it much because I’m not sure if syncing it up will delete anything. Seems functional so far. Feel free to recommend me any (free) apps.
We also dropped by Fry’s to get an external hard drive to encode all the wedding footage, so that is FINALLY done. Because of the heat, we’ve been staying away from the bedroom, where all the computers generate tons of heat. So Kelvin hasn’t edited the footage, and I didn’t play that many PC games. The living room isn’t much better, with the consoles and television also generating a lot of heat. At least the A/C is in the vicinity of the living room. We watched a lot of the second season of Dexter, and most of the gaming for the weekend was Dr. Mario showdowns. (I won a small majority of games with default settings, but when we set the game to have only 4 viruses to get rid of, I’d pretty much get owned by Kelvin.)
Nooo, so close…!
We could have been more productive, but the heat made us lazy. We unfortunately didn’t do any of the massive mountain of dirty laundry in our bedroom. We did make the effort to see some family. We dropped by Keni’s place and watched the nieces play in the pool; Kelvin and I were bums and didn’t feel like swimming. We also had dinner with my mom at PSK. Overall, a decent weekend where 80% of the time wasn’t spend in front of our computer screens.
I don’t have my card reader at work, so I can’t upload pics. I’ll upload pics whenever I get the chance (which is probably when we get our modem).
New thing I learned today: “Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra” is a metaphor from the (Star Trek TNG alien race) Tamarians’ language, referring to a situation where two heroes must unite to fight a common foe.
Kelvin likes this weird Star Trek TNG techno song:
He also likes the “Darmok” episode where the “Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra” phrase comes from, so we watched it on Youtube because I had no idea what he was talking about.
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yah, I love the Darkmok episode too. Did you know linguistics professors have used the episode to show students?
The Picard Techno video reminded me of the LotR “They’re taking the Hobbits to Isengard” video. Incidentally, the scene where he’s lecturing Wesley on Starfleet is from “First Duty,” the scene where he’s speaking Shakespearean love poetry to Lwaxana is from “Menage a Troi,” and the scene where he’s speaking all monotone is from the intro to “Timescape.”
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