This time of year I devote considerable brain power to making up silly lyrics for Christmas tunes, but I’ve never done better than @joe’s genius George Michael / Robert Burns mashup, which comes to mind a lot, even out of season.
I’d love to link to it but can’t find it. In fact I may have crashed cohost.org searching for it, sorry.
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As the westbound #Amtrak #CaliforniaZephyr switchbacks up the Front Range of the Rockies, it passes old freight cars planted with trees to provide a windbreak.
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Passing an A #train as we ride through the rail yards on our way out of Denver on the westbound #Amtrak #CaliforniaZephyr.
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I rode the #Amtrak #CaliforniaZephyr round trip from Denver to Sacramento twice this fall, so I have a lot of pictures! Here's a thread to share them. #trains
First trip was the first week of October. I was solo in a roomette, which you can see here just after I settled in while the train was still in Denver Union Station.
I brought a portable HEPA air filter and CO2 meter. I found my rooms on all four legs of my two trips to be reasonably well-ventilated—usually less than 1000 ppm.
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The problem I’ve been having with #CenturyLink #GigabitFiber in Denver is happening to many other customers: https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/1gfdl2q/nightly_failures_of_centurylink_5_and_counting/
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Happening again tonight. Started up almost like clockwork at around 18:00. Ping times shoot up to around 60 ms, download speed in the single-digit Mbps, packet loss to internet hosts. #CenturyLInk #GigabitFiber. Why?
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I've tried all the usual things like rebooting my ONT and gateway, and replacing the ethernet cable between them. Because the problem varies with the time of day, it seems like it can’t be a hardware problem though. More like something going wrong in a network facility?
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Been having a problem with #CenturyLink #GigabitFiber in Denver, CO the last 3 days. For several hours ping times shoot up to 50-80 ms, download speed plunges to 1-10 Mbps, and I get packet loss of 10-20% to internet hosts. Upload speed is also reduced, but not as much.
This happened from about 18:00-00:00 Friday and Saturday night. Sunday it happened from 12:00-00:00. But outside of those hours I’ve had my normal 2-4 ms pings with ~930 Mbps up and down.
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I voted for Kamala Harris for the reasons John Scalzi details eloquently at https://whatever.scalzi.com/2024/10/26/the-scalzi-endorsement-kamala-harris-for-president/. In short, quoting Scalzi, “Donald Trump, in his words and actions of this election season and beyond, has shown himself a fascist.”
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I voted in the 2024 US presidential election.
I handed my completed mail-in ballot to a human at a polling/drop-off station in Denver on Monday Oct. 21st.
On Thursday the 24th I received an email from Colorado BallotTrax saying my ballot had been counted. The email contained this cool virtual sticker. Thank you artist whose name looks like Harold!
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