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  • 75 Skills Every Man Should Master

    Today’s young men are overly feminized, indecisive, binge drinking good-for-nothings who need a backbone and a brain. Or so my grandpa might say. For those of us who endeavor to rise above that description and desire to achieve real manhood, Tom Chiarella has a few things we can work on to get there. My favorite?

    29. Understand quantum physics well enough that he can accept that a quarter might, at some point, pass straight through the table when dropped.

    Sometimes the laws of physics aren’t laws at all. Read The Quantum World: Quantum Physics for Everyone, by Kenneth W. Ford.

    Followed closely by:

    30. Feign interest. Good place to start: quantum physics.

    It’s Esquire, so you know going in there will be questionable content in the general area. You’ve been warned.

    The 75 Skills Every Man Should Master


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  • New theme added

    Ed has submitted another theme, xudaz, which is now available via the repo.

  • Sprint broadband

    Sprint Ovation U727

    Recently the company I work for had the need for Internet access at a job site where there were no traditional means of connection, so we decided to give Sprint’s wireless broadband a try.

    For the choice of card, I opted for the USB Ovation U727. The tech support said it boasted the highest signal strength of any of the USB models due to the flip-up antenna.

    We have an older Dell laptop we needed access on, so I bought a PC card USB 2.0 adapter to run the Sprint card on. I had difficulty, however, getting the card to stay connected; it just kept connecting and disconnecting through the USB.

    I quickly realized that the problem was in the PC Card adapter, because the card worked fine plugged into the USB 1.1 port on the laptop. So much for trying to maintain current standards…

    Once connected, I was impressed at the speed, though I couldn’t stream video very well, most of the broadband meters clocked the connection at just under 650 kbps…. not bad for broadband wireless if you asked me.

    When downloading software updates from their own server, I averaged around 80 – 90 KB/sec, also faster than I had expected.

    We’ll see how service fares on site, which happens to be in Crete, NE. The map shows the general area being in a ‘roaming’ zone, but we’re waiting on clarification from Sprint on that detail.

    All in all, initial impressions were good, but overall opinion is pending network performance on site… will keep you posted.

  • More Eee PC giveaways!

    If you missed the memo (and the ensuing knockoffs), Eee’s are hot right now. Not only is some bank in Canada giving them away for free, but now PowerUp Mobile is as well.

    UK customers who sign a two-year contract with PowerUp Mobile for T-Mobile’s Web n Walk broadband service will get not only a free Eee (2G), but also a free USB modem.

    PowerUp Mobile - Free Eee

    Again, this offer is outside the US, but maybe someday we’ll get a similar deal.