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Squealing Like A Stuck Pig
May. 19th, 2005 09:30 pmIs it just me, or is the Internet lumbering like a dying elephant right now? Or is it just somebody DOSing my ISP? Or just selected sites that are having problems?
Neopets was so unusable when I was downstairs with the boys(that's all we do for an hour every evening, play Neopets games)that we were forced to resort to other games. Local games, on the computer! That did not require Internet access!
If it is just me, then I could be next in line for the fun fun fun of "find the bottleneck" with my ISP's tech support...(I've got high-speed through Telus, so the prospect fills me with foreboding.)
I've been reading Catherine Asaro's The Last Hawk, one of her Skolian books. It's one of those series that apparently comes out all over the place--I've read the first book chronologically, Skyfall, but it's one of the most recently written, and I've read Primary Inversion, the first published; this is the third published, but the second one is apparently a generation down the timeline. It doesn't overlap too much with the first book, either--the main character is a member of the same family, but he was missing and presumed dead in that book; here we find he's just been trapped on an isolated planet for that time. I'm into the 6th and last section, which is good because I want to finish it before we go away for the weekend.
It's been going slowly, because I was taken with the urge to reread my Dilbert collection. I'm about nine or ten books in, and amazed to realize that it's just at this point, several years into the strip, that Wally and Alice are becoming regular characters. And Alice doesn't have her trademark triangular hairdo yet, either. Asok hasn't even appeared yet. Well, I guess it took him a while to settle into it. I'm just glad that the dinosaurs' roles have been cut back, because I never liked them that much.
Oh, well, I just got my special-ordered copy of The Cartoon History of The Universe III, which I'm sure can handily trounce Scott Adams. It came out in 2002, by which point I'd given up looking for it. But then, I have no concept of how long it takes to draw your average comic, let alone do all the historical research that Larry Gonick has to do for each one. Thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
omarius for mentioning it and inadvertently alerting me to its existence.
Neopets was so unusable when I was downstairs with the boys(that's all we do for an hour every evening, play Neopets games)that we were forced to resort to other games. Local games, on the computer! That did not require Internet access!
If it is just me, then I could be next in line for the fun fun fun of "find the bottleneck" with my ISP's tech support...(I've got high-speed through Telus, so the prospect fills me with foreboding.)
I've been reading Catherine Asaro's The Last Hawk, one of her Skolian books. It's one of those series that apparently comes out all over the place--I've read the first book chronologically, Skyfall, but it's one of the most recently written, and I've read Primary Inversion, the first published; this is the third published, but the second one is apparently a generation down the timeline. It doesn't overlap too much with the first book, either--the main character is a member of the same family, but he was missing and presumed dead in that book; here we find he's just been trapped on an isolated planet for that time. I'm into the 6th and last section, which is good because I want to finish it before we go away for the weekend.
It's been going slowly, because I was taken with the urge to reread my Dilbert collection. I'm about nine or ten books in, and amazed to realize that it's just at this point, several years into the strip, that Wally and Alice are becoming regular characters. And Alice doesn't have her trademark triangular hairdo yet, either. Asok hasn't even appeared yet. Well, I guess it took him a while to settle into it. I'm just glad that the dinosaurs' roles have been cut back, because I never liked them that much.
Oh, well, I just got my special-ordered copy of The Cartoon History of The Universe III, which I'm sure can handily trounce Scott Adams. It came out in 2002, by which point I'd given up looking for it. But then, I have no concept of how long it takes to draw your average comic, let alone do all the historical research that Larry Gonick has to do for each one. Thanks to
omarius for mentioning it and inadvertently alerting me to its existence.
