{"id":7884,"date":"2012-07-28T18:42:25","date_gmt":"2012-07-28T23:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/wp\/?p=7884"},"modified":"2020-08-31T12:35:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T17:35:35","slug":"still-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/still-waiting\/","title":{"rendered":"Still waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miscellaneous notes:<\/p>\n<p>A few months ago I cancelled my minimal-speed DSL connection and signed up for cable internet. I am supposed to get downstream speeds of 18.5 megabytes per second, and according to online speed tests, I do. In fact, I can download a gigabyte-plus torrent in the time it takes me to shave and brush my hair. However, surfing the world wide <strike>wait<\/strike> web is still an exercise in patience. No matter how fast your connection is, a page that is assembled from 150 little items stored on several sluggish servers will always take forever to load, even if you have ads and Flash blocked.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, if you are building a website and want to add comments, please don&#8217;t use Disqus. It takes far too long to load, if it loads at all.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->*****<\/p>\n<p>The future ain&#8217;t what it used to be: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writersofthefuture.com\/time-capsule-predictions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">science fiction writers of 1987 speculating about 2012<\/a>. SF writers are lousy prophets and sanctimonious pricks, particularly Isaac Asimov. (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eve Tushnet<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>The fourth episode of <i><b>Dog Days II<\/b><\/i> emphasizes its descent from kid&#8217;s show to fanservice vehicle. I&#8217;ll probably keep watching Shinku and his friends, but I can no longer give the show any recommendation. (The first season is fine entertainment, and I can almost recommend it for all ages \u2014 almost.)<\/p>\n<p>The fifth episode of <i><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchyroll.com\/humanity-has-declined\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita<\/a><\/b><\/i> airs tomorrow. We&#8217;ll see if it continues to be the best anime satire since the first few episodes of <i><b>Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei<\/b><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Here are a couple of nice magazine covers featuring warrior women.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/SAINT51-03Planet.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/palin_fantasy.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifiwright.com\/2012\/07\/feminine-names-for-strong-womens-novels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John C. Wright<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ThePeoplesCube.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The People&#8217;s Cube<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Sakurajima continues to be the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2012\/07\/impressive-video-of-the-latest-eruptions-from-japans-sakurajima\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">greatest show<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/video.heraldsun.com.au\/2260240390\/Volcano-explodes-in-Japan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on earth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zH-Nm949-dE?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Note the lightning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miscellaneous notes: A few months ago I cancelled my minimal-speed DSL connection and signed up for cable internet. I am supposed to get downstream speeds of 18.5 megabytes per second, and according to online speed tests, I do. In fact, I can download a gigabyte-plus torrent in the time it takes me to shave and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/still-waiting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Still waiting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-23a","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97967,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884\/revisions\/97967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}