http://www.boingboing.net/2005/11/08/verizons_evdo_servic.html

I thought this was quite funny, as their terms of service contradict itself and basically state that you cant use it for anything. “Unlimited NationalAccess/BroadbandAccess services cannot be used (1)… (2) with server devices…”

every web connection of any kind talks to a server device.

too bad this post came from my verizon evdo connection. I guess this violates my terms of service since I am using a connection to a server… my service will be terminated, and will be forced to pay the termination fee for my contract because I USE IT.

Last night was my first real Astronomy class, and it was quite interesting. First off the planetarium is the second largest community college planitarium in the US, and was the first until just recently. The teacher said it was built in 1971, and was state of the art at that time. Star projector was donated at that time by a large corporation and had a working life of 15 years. 34 years later, it is still there and barely working with duct tape and glue, but it still appears new. I have yet to see it work as we just had a discussion and watched part of a really bad old film that was about the history of our solar system and how we know what we know today. I cant believe that until 1962 people actually thought there might have been people on mars. I guess that just shows how fast we have evolved technically as a society in the past 40 years or so.

So I went to Togo’s to pickup a sandwich for dinner tonite, and on the door was a sign that said ‘out of bread’. C’mon guys, you make sandwiches, you are not supposed to run out of bread. I mean, KFC doesn’t run out of chicken do they? or how about Starbucks, you don’t see them running out of coffee. This isn’t the first time either. I was waiting at San Jose Airport for a flight for the 4th of July weekend this year, and the Togo’s in there also ran out, and it was the only place to eat in the terminal.

So today I went on a bike ride with my brother for the first time, it was fun, but he slowed me down a lot, and all my new bike wants to do is go downhill really fast. Before we left I was cleaning up the chain on my old bike for my brother, and he was trying out my new bike, and just about kills himself and breaks my new bike. Luckily neither happened, but he was riding about 5mph just trying it out, decides to pull the front break, and flips over the handlebars. He was lucky because he wasn’t wearing a helmet, and he didn’t land on his head. He got a few scratches on his elbow, but was alright. The bike was OK too, it needed a little tune up as the gear shifters got hit out of wack a little bit, but that was an easy fix. Tomorrow I think I’ll ride in Santa Cruz, at wilder ranch, since I may have to go work on some stuff at the beach house :(. I wish I had someone to ride with that was at my skill level. Riding with a beginner kinda sucks because i don’t really get a workout, but hell, everyone has to start somewhere.

My comcrap (comcast) is still broken at home. It usually goes out at night and I get about 50% packet loss for several hours, then randomly it works again. Also while the internet is broken, i also cant get any HD or high number digital channels either. Comcast needs to fix their shit on my street and give me free service. I think they have already credited my account more than $80 for the month, its free until they fix their shit and I stop calling. It being broken is also costing them a lot, since I’ve had a service call every other day for the past 2 weeks or so. I’m also pissed that my dsl is not going to work, they came back after 4 weeks of figuring shit out and said that my line is 17,000+ feet away from the CO, which i actually already knew, but they convinced me otherwise when I ordered it. We’ll see how long it takes for them to ask for the modem back.

I need to move out of the house now so i can finally have good internet again. I’m at Starbucks right now because my crap is broken at home and its pissing me off. Hopefully when I get kicked out of here at 12 I can go hang out with Jenn for a while.