Papa's been monkeying around with the internet connection and we occasionally find an open connection so we listen to video game soundtracks from youtube whenever we do. Yes, we know how to have fun. We've also been experimenting with Voice Control over Willie's iPod touch, and it plays the darndest things when you ask it to do something else. For example, when Willie says "what flavor is my ear" the iPod goes and plays some Lord of the Rings stuff. What does it mean?
The big internet news is that our 6 month experiment with Clear wireless broadband is over. They are one company that is clearly not ready for prime time. We give them 3 months until they declare bankruptcy based on their crappy service. So it's back to DSL for us, albeit at a higher speed, complete with our tails between our collective legs. But Papa's not done tinkering yet--he's working on some VOIP thing called Ooma (no, not Uma, but he can wish) that is part pyramid scheme and part miracle cure to the phone company's stranglehold on our phone line. We'll see how it works over DSL, cuz it didn't work well over Clear, but then nothing really worked well over Clear. Wouldn't that be ironic if the phone company's DSL line allowed us to cut our landline connection for phone service? Here's hoping.
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