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Best. Valentine’s Day. Card. Ever.

EVER.

On The Other Side

I hate them all
I hate them all
I hate myself for hating them
So I’ll drink some more
I love them all!
I’ll drink even more
I’ll hate them even more than I did before

Sigh.

Again. Not only do I have an active VPN and IRC connection, but this happened while I was loading a web page. This is infuriating.

10/14/11 09:20:12> Current Time
10/14/11 09:18:57> LTE Out of Dormant State
10/14/11 09:18:53> LTE in Dormant State
10/14/11 09:08:00> [ARP] Record IP 192.168.1.71

This is infuriating. The MiFi is great when it works. When.

Yesterday VZW told me they would reduce my ETF fee to $100 (a discount of $50). I asked for the weekend to decide, thinking I might be able to try the MiFi a little more and reevaluate if keeping this might be worth it. Normally it drops to dormant in 3G mode, but today it went dormant with 2 bars in the middle of DC where I have LTE signal. I don’t want to pay $50/month for “almost works.” Hopefully they’ll do better on the ETF fee so as to not engender ill will. I’m eying VZW for the iPhone 4S. This would help.

Edit—Holy crap it happened again.

10/14/11 09:52:21> NWPM_EVENT_CALL_CONNECTED
10/14/11 09:52:21> LTE Connected
10/14/11 09:52:07> NWPM_EVENT_CALL_END
10/14/11 09:52:07> LTE Disconnected
10/14/11 09:52:07> [RUIAUTO] Invalid packet state
10/14/11 09:44:50> LTE Out of Dormant State
10/14/11 09:44:43> LTE in Dormant State
10/14/11 09:18:57> LTE Out of Dormant State

This silently kills all my connections, too. NOT HAPPY.

The Genius icon just looks right in this context on Flickr.

Competition between the Western democracies and the communist powers obliged the former to push their scientists and engineers to the limits of what they could imagine and supplied a sort of safety net in the event that their initial efforts did not pay off. A grizzled NASA veteran once told me that the Apollo moon landings were communism’s greatest achievement.

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—	Innovation Starvation by Neil Stephenson \| World Policy Institute

If he didn’t care about you, you couldn’t upset him,” was all she said.

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—	The Graveyard Book

VZW Shenanigans. Again.

The replacement MiFi certainly works better than the original one… if there’s an LTE signal. Otherwise, it’s got the same problem as the first one.

Pretty sure my connection log shouldn’t look like this.

09/23/11 09:07:48> HDR/EvDO Out of Dormant State
09/23/11 09:07:46> HDR/EvDO in Dormant State
09/23/11 09:07:39> HDR/EvDO Out of Dormant State
09/23/11 09:07:36> HDR/EvDO in Dormant State
09/23/11 09:07:29> HDR/EvDO Out of Dormant State
09/23/11 09:07:25> HDR/EvDO in Dormant State
09/23/11 09:07:18> HDR/EvDO Out of Dormant State
09/23/11 09:07:06> HDR/EvDO in Dormant State
09/23/11 09:06:42> HDR/EvDO Out of Dormant State
09/23/11 09:06:39> HDR/EvDO in Dormant State
09/23/11 09:06:31> HDR/EvDO Out of Dormant State
09/23/11 09:06:30> HDR/EvDO in Dormant State
09/23/11 09:06:23> HDR/EvDO Out of Dormant State
09/23/11 09:06:19> HDR/EvDO in Dormant State
09/23/11 09:06:12> HDR/EvDO Out of Dormant State
09/23/11 09:06:09> HDR/EvDO in Dormant State
09/23/11 09:05:35> HDR/EvDO Out of Dormant State
09/23/11 09:05:08> HDR/EvDO in Dormant State

I was trying to load a web page or two at the time. The IRC program running in the background should have been connected, too, which should have kept the MiFi from going dormant. Not to mention the VPN connection…

Also, VZW’s coverage of Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor south of Union Station is pretty crap.

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