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I won't claim that it's psychic. It could be just a random coincidence, or I might have subconsciously heard my neighbor's radio or television while sleeping. I had a dream about oceans in the sky instead of clouds. Now I see that there are tsunami warnings. Before going online this morning, I was thinking about making a photoshopped image of what I saw in my dream. It was going to be just a meaningless art post on one of my incompletely developed sites. It now seems to have a bit more meaning to it, and it's more ominous than beautiful.
A client of mine decided to switch from Time Warner Cable to Verizon FiOS two months ago. Due to extreme unreliability of the Verizon service, which included 4 separate on-site repairs and a complete rewiring due to complete failure of the first installation, my client decided to cancel the service.
Verizon has already turned off the video and internet services, but they refuse to revert the phone system back to POTS. That means the optical network terminal has to continue to be used for phone service. The problem is that the repeated failures of internet, television, and phone were due to interruptions in signals sent to this device. That means the unreliability of phone service might become permanent.
Verizon has already turned off the video and internet services, but they refuse to revert the phone system back to POTS. That means the optical network terminal has to continue to be used for phone service. The problem is that the repeated failures of internet, television, and phone were due to interruptions in signals sent to this device. That means the unreliability of phone service might become permanent.
The first time I saw "exho", I thought it was a one time misspelling of "expo", but Maria Sharapova, or whoever administers her Facebook fan page, has spelled it that way several times. Every time I see it, I think of it meaning a former "ho", and this amuses me.
Also, the Facebook ads for "NYU Poly" makes me think of a polyamorous group for NYU students. It's actually for NYU Polytechnic.
Also, the Facebook ads for "NYU Poly" makes me think of a polyamorous group for NYU students. It's actually for NYU Polytechnic.
My client told his girlfriend that he has been using my services for over 10 years. This was followed by either an idiom or joke which I did not understand. He said:
I am not sure what this means. Is it an old French idiom? He is in his 80's and from France. My guess is that this somehow relates to infancy, since he is jokingly exaggerating how long ago we met. Did French toddlers wear knee pads to protect their knees while crawling around on the floor?
Also, he had a wife a few months ago. I'm not sure if she died or if they got divorced. She wasn't there today. He felt no need to hide his intimacy with the girlfriend.
That was so long ago, we were still wearing kneepads.
I am not sure what this means. Is it an old French idiom? He is in his 80's and from France. My guess is that this somehow relates to infancy, since he is jokingly exaggerating how long ago we met. Did French toddlers wear knee pads to protect their knees while crawling around on the floor?
Also, he had a wife a few months ago. I'm not sure if she died or if they got divorced. She wasn't there today. He felt no need to hide his intimacy with the girlfriend.
I am at a party hosted by an elderly travel agent who is very wealthy. A young attractive woman comes to the front door and just stands there. She doesn't feel right walking in and is also hesitant to ring the doorbell. The travel agent notices her and greets her. She explains that his dog is out of food.
After feeding the dog, the travel agent decides to go thank the woman. His primary motivation is to seduce her. She did not tell him her name or where she lives. I suggest that he follow her footsteps. The house is on a beach and there is sand everywhere, which makes tracking easy.
When the travel agent arrives at the woman's house, I become him. The story takes a dramatic turn. The woman and I are both non-human. We are genetically engineered humanoid ninjas. The female and male humanoids live separately from each other, and from humans. The humans are holding a meeting to decide what to do with us. Their decision is to destroy the humanoids that they had created. This leads to a war between the humans and the humanoids. We are genetically engineered for combat and have extensive training, but we are outnumbered very significantly, so the winner is not immediately clear.
I enter the female ninja's house secretly. A card game is being played on the first floor. There are many ninjas everywhere. I have to do many acrobatic maneuvers to avoid being seen. I eventually get upstairs and find some boys playing with toy cars. Having boys in this house is against the rules. If they know that I know about this, the female ninjas will try to kill me.
One of the children is playing hide and seek. He is well hidden and sees me before I see him. He screams. This draws everyone's attention. I am suddenly attacked by hundreds of ninjas. This causes me to awaken.
After feeding the dog, the travel agent decides to go thank the woman. His primary motivation is to seduce her. She did not tell him her name or where she lives. I suggest that he follow her footsteps. The house is on a beach and there is sand everywhere, which makes tracking easy.
When the travel agent arrives at the woman's house, I become him. The story takes a dramatic turn. The woman and I are both non-human. We are genetically engineered humanoid ninjas. The female and male humanoids live separately from each other, and from humans. The humans are holding a meeting to decide what to do with us. Their decision is to destroy the humanoids that they had created. This leads to a war between the humans and the humanoids. We are genetically engineered for combat and have extensive training, but we are outnumbered very significantly, so the winner is not immediately clear.
I enter the female ninja's house secretly. A card game is being played on the first floor. There are many ninjas everywhere. I have to do many acrobatic maneuvers to avoid being seen. I eventually get upstairs and find some boys playing with toy cars. Having boys in this house is against the rules. If they know that I know about this, the female ninjas will try to kill me.
One of the children is playing hide and seek. He is well hidden and sees me before I see him. He screams. This draws everyone's attention. I am suddenly attacked by hundreds of ninjas. This causes me to awaken.
Since February 10, I have been connecting to the internet without proper authentication.
I switched modems because I had lost internet service for an entire day and I figured that it was worth a try. The new modem didn't help, but I left it connected and service was remotely restored. I just continued using this modem, because it's much newer than the other one that I had been using.
The modem that I am using requires a user name and password to establish a PPPoE connection. I noticed that it was letting me connect with the default user name of "newdsl" and some hidden default password. I figured that this might have some kind of time limit or it was the result of some oversight that would be fixed. I knew from prior experience that this default user name and password should only grant access to a limited number of Verizon sites and nothing else. I was surprised to see that I could access everything. I decided to put in what I thought were my correct user name and password, because I did not want an outage when policies changed. However, I misspelled my user name.
They finally reverted to the old policy today. This explains why I lost internet service again. Unlike usual interruptions in service, the modem reported that it had a strong signal. There was even an IP address obtained, but the modem failed all internal tests of connectivity. After a reset, I got the Verizon new DSL welcome screen and realized that they had pushed through a surprise update which included reverting to requiring a correct user name and password.
I switched modems because I had lost internet service for an entire day and I figured that it was worth a try. The new modem didn't help, but I left it connected and service was remotely restored. I just continued using this modem, because it's much newer than the other one that I had been using.
The modem that I am using requires a user name and password to establish a PPPoE connection. I noticed that it was letting me connect with the default user name of "newdsl" and some hidden default password. I figured that this might have some kind of time limit or it was the result of some oversight that would be fixed. I knew from prior experience that this default user name and password should only grant access to a limited number of Verizon sites and nothing else. I was surprised to see that I could access everything. I decided to put in what I thought were my correct user name and password, because I did not want an outage when policies changed. However, I misspelled my user name.
They finally reverted to the old policy today. This explains why I lost internet service again. Unlike usual interruptions in service, the modem reported that it had a strong signal. There was even an IP address obtained, but the modem failed all internal tests of connectivity. After a reset, I got the Verizon new DSL welcome screen and realized that they had pushed through a surprise update which included reverting to requiring a correct user name and password.
I shop at Whole Foods Market 2 to 4 times per week. I am familiar with all of their regular merchandise and I like to experiment with new products when I encounter them. This has lead to an interesting discovery.
New products often appear on the shelves before they get entered into the computer system. In the past, this resulted in delays at checkout while someone did research to find the price. This practice was abandoned last year. My first encounter with this new policy involved a conversation that was approximately like this:
I'm not sure if the policy was revised again or if the cashier that serviced me today was lazy. I bought some veal stock that wasn't in the computer system. There was no delay to make a note of it and the item does not appear on my receipt. It was just given to me for free without any delay.
New products often appear on the shelves before they get entered into the computer system. In the past, this resulted in delays at checkout while someone did research to find the price. This practice was abandoned last year. My first encounter with this new policy involved a conversation that was approximately like this:
cashier: I'm sorry. This item's not in the computer. Do you really want it?
erdos: Yes.
cashier: OK. Just give me a moment while I write down the code. Then you can have it for free.
erdos: OK.
I'm not sure if the policy was revised again or if the cashier that serviced me today was lazy. I bought some veal stock that wasn't in the computer system. There was no delay to make a note of it and the item does not appear on my receipt. It was just given to me for free without any delay.
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