Speedtest.net is a snazzy graphical Internet connect speed test service.
Here are my results from home:
My results from work look as if they are much faster:
But in fact the delay before anything happens (latency?) feels much larger at work, so the office computer feels slower. I don’t know if that’s a DNS issue or what, but it’s very noticable.
Joe Mathlete Explains Today’s Marmaduke solves the problem of finding humor in this remarkably horrible daily comic. At first I didn’t think the explanations were funny, but by the end I was roaring. It grows on you, like a certain type of near-surrealism. (Read at least a dozen before you give up.)
Wednesday’s post was entitled I Quit, which made me nervous, but fortunately Mathlete wasn’t serious.
Mathlete does not, however, explain how it can be that newspapers continue to carry this thing.
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