UPDATE:
This is/was supposed to be a joke – the opposite of SnipURL.com or TinyURL.com that make short URL’s out of long ones. HugeURL.com was supposed to make this ultra-long URL that would like to http://GoingLikeSixty.com… it doesn’t seem to do that.
Monthly Archive for March, 2009
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I always thought triskaidekaphobia was the fear of Friday the 13th. Today I learn from @shotgunconcepts on Twitter that I have been mislead all this time by the mainstream media.
Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of the number 13, but Wikipedia says is is “associated” with Friday the 13th.
But the real term for fear of Friday the 13th is Paraskevidekatriaphobia.
@shotgunconcepts also told me that there are three Fridays the 13ths in 2009, the next will be November 13, 2009.
So if one suffers from this fear this would be the year for Triparaskevidekatriaphobia, which I think has all the syllables needed to be it’s own Haiku.
Tri para rask e
videka tria phobia
Nope, not even close.
We Tivo Ellen because she always gives us a laugh. Always. She related yesterday how she likes to saw things. She was just pleased as punch that the brother of her spouse, Portia De Rossi, gave her a Sawzall brand reciprocating saw for Christmas.
Reciprocating saws are awesome. They have a single blade sticking out from the motor and the blade moves rapidly back and forth in a sawing action. It enables the sawer to get into some tight places to saw.
So when I read this today, I couldn’t help, could. not. help. but make the connection.
Maryland State Police airlifted the 27-year-old woman to Prince George’s County Hospital Center early Sunday morning after she was injured in an incident involving a sex toy attached to a saber saw blade, TheBayNet.com first reported.
The man who called 911 about the incident admitted attaching the sex toy to the saw and then using the high-powered, homemade device on his partner, according to the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office.
Here’s the unasked and unanswered question. Who thought this would be a great idea?
No perv, not this Anti Bea
This Anti B
Good Morning America’s co-host Chris Cuomo is using Twitter. Never one to miss an opportunity to tweak a TeeVee “newser” I tweeted at him to please stop popping the B in Billion.
He kinda responded:
ChrisCuomoHave people fatigued on the amounts gov’t is spending? Is billion the new million? Is there really no need for me to accentuate “bbbillion”?
I’ve done the science, millions should only be used for lottery winners and athletes. Billions are common on any story relating to government spending. Therefore sports personalities are exempt from the Anti B Popping effort.
Do you know of other network TeeVee folks on Twitter? Please give me their user name in the comments so I can help them adapt to 21st century TeeVee Journalism.
Better yet, if you’re on Twitter, give @ChrisCuomo a shout and let him know you are Anti B Popping.
If you write about, talk about, or care about getting more people faster access to the internet, then please, please don’t use the term broadband.
Between 768kbps and 1.5Mbps is now classified as “basic broadband,” and providers are also required to break down both upload and download speeds in specific increments –
To refer to these pathetic download speeds as broadband leads the general public to think this is a desirable target. It’s not. It shouldn’t even be called “basic broadband.” It should be called “minimal internet access.”
Yet, every time I run across a reference to the $8 Billion package to bring better internet access to rural America, the source calls it “broadband.”
Obama has touted the stimulus provision for broadband Internet networks as a way to generate jobs right away; workers will be needed to dig more trenches to lay down fiber and put up more cell towers. He’s also focused on broadband as a key to creating valuable high-paying jobs in the future that can help lift troubled economies.
It isn’t necessary to dig ditches or put up cell towers to get fast internet to rural areas. And, BTW, ten miles from where I sit with 10 Mbps download speed, the only access to the internet is via DSL or satellite. Smallburg is over 50,000 population. The county is over 100,000. But ten miles away is “rural.”
So even though Treehugger.com thinks rural is farmers with cows and combines, rural can also be McMansions and small businesses.
There exists today a technology to get “fiber in the sky” to rural citizens. MMDS is Multichannel, Multipoint, Distribution System. All the major network companies have versions of MMDS that will get fast internet (up to 10 Mbps download) up to 35 miles with no line-of-sight restrictions.
1. Don’t call use the term “broadband.” Call it internet access and if you want to refer to high speed, call it high speed or wideband.
2. Don’t let Connect Kentucky/ Connected Nation anywhere near the stimulus money.
