… was awesome right up until they lost in overtime. :-/

The pre-game show was a pretty nifty setup worth sharing though.

Watch this:

Turn into this: (click on the picture for the pre-game video)

Pictures from my trip to Vegas are posted.

and you know you have a million things you should be doing, what to you actually do? You play the piano. At least that’s what I did this morning. The good news is this brings about 2 new tasks to add to my list:

1) Tune the piano
2) Play more (fingers are starting to lose muscle memory)

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Sample clip #1

Sample clip #2

I woke up to see this out in the field this morning — kinda neat.

Cable access has once again returned to normal

–21:45:42– http://cluster/100mb.bin
Connecting to cluster:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `100mb.bin.1′

7% [==> ] 8,107,040 1.09M/s eta 90s

I ended up upgrading my DSL access to 5mbps anyway. One can never have too much bandwidth at home, afterall.

After years of solid performance things are starting to crumble. All summer I was able to regularly hit 27mbps peaks with Comcast’s delayed packet shaping (aka PowerBoost) and then things would lock in right at 8mbps after being shaped. Over the last couple weeks things have degraded until they hit a new low tonight:

–19:51:21– http://cluster/100mb.bin
Connecting to cluster:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `100mb.bin’

1% [ ] 1,328,952 79.1K/s eta 20m 38s

It’s a sad day when my 3mbps DSL service kicks 8mbps cable Internet’s ass.

What the heck is this?

… just to recreate this video!