So Time Warner is finally selling Road Runner Turbo service here for an additional $10/mo at speeds of 10Mb/1Mb. That’s more than double the standard residential speed for $10.00 more. Now that we’re up to almost half the speed of most other cities I might actually have to find another company to pester for a while, HAHA!
Bandwidth Test #1
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Edit: Oh, here’s a video I shot of Phish last weekend. The second set was delayed for a severe thunderstorm that rolled through the area. The storm really got the crowd and band fired up and we ended up getting soaked. Seeing my favorite band perform one of my favorite songs during nature’s light show was defintely an event I will never forget.
Memorial Day weekend is always the unofficial beginning of summer. Kayte had a few days off from work so that Friday night we decided to drive down to Chattanooga. Click below to browse those pics.
So it seems another birthday has snuck up on me as well, the second sign of summer. I’m not a TV watcher but we do watch quite a few movies. HDTV and LCD prices have sunk so low I recently gave in and upgraded my main computer monitor. Up until now we were still sporting a lovely 36″ Sanyo CRT (approximately the same size as Saturn) in our living room. Side note: Out of curiosity I decided to see if there were any 36″ CRTs on eBay. There was one JVC and it was going for $20 + local pickup only.
You knew where this post was going. My self-purchased “birthday present” was the Sharp Aquos LC-40E67U 40″ 1080p LCD. I did my homework and this model is by far the best display for the money. It’s not a Samsung but it was several hundred cheaper and the quality is very close. I’d been watching prices for a long time and when Best Buy marked this TV down lower than all the online retailers after the Holiday, I jumped on it! The picture, brightness and contrast are excellent and 6ms is more than fast enough. It also has 8 inputs, I can’t imagine ever needing that many for anything as I’m only using the VGA and 1 HDMI port.
Finally, next weekend I’m seeing Phish with some buds in Noblesville, IN!!! This is probably the most excited I’ve ever been to see a concert. Five years ago this month, at the same venue, I saw them perform what everyone thought would be their final tour (come on, this is Phish right?!) and getting tickets for this summer was slightly harder than impossible times fifty!
