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Oh internet
What's up with you now?
The packets are getting through; they're just taking forever. It feels awfully similar to dial-up lag.
Or, or, an activity I participated in recently where you were split into "tribe members" and "anthropologists" who were studying the tribe customs. One such custom was that a tribe member could only respond to a question after a five-second delay. If the anthropologist asked too many questions too quickly, the tribe member must wordlessly walk away, so conversations were held with tiny, but noticeable gaps.
Or, or, a CYA book I read where you end up being mildly out of sync with everyone else timewise, so everything you did only showed up to everyone else some ten seconds after you actually did it and you had to carry a sign around you at all times, to prevent bus drivers from running over you and the like (and I'm not sure why carrying a sign around you works. Oh wait, I just realized: if they could see the sign you're carrying ahead of them five seconds ago, or later, or summat, that would give them enough warning to stop ahead of their time so they don't hit you in your time. Or something.)
Okay, enough floggingmyself my connection. I think I'll start to pound something if I try to wait through any more page loads. If anyone needs me for anything urgent, send me an e-mail, and I will respond offline and send it back to you. (I can let the mail download/upload in the background, so I don't feel the effects of the lag, except that I'd see your message a few seconds later than I normally would, but ohwell ;)). Not that anyone ever needs me urgently, but I don't know how long it will take before this is resolved, so I may be relatively quiet over the next few days (so don't need me urgently, unless you really need me urgently, mmkay? <3)
21:57:55 xxxxxxx:~ xxxx$ traceroute www.google.com
traceroute to www.l.google.com (74.125.19.103), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 132.675 ms 7.090 ms *
2 10.1.160.1 (10.1.160.1) 1851.211 ms 2236.005 ms 2345.997 ms
^C
The packets are getting through; they're just taking forever. It feels awfully similar to dial-up lag.
Or, or, an activity I participated in recently where you were split into "tribe members" and "anthropologists" who were studying the tribe customs. One such custom was that a tribe member could only respond to a question after a five-second delay. If the anthropologist asked too many questions too quickly, the tribe member must wordlessly walk away, so conversations were held with tiny, but noticeable gaps.
Or, or, a CYA book I read where you end up being mildly out of sync with everyone else timewise, so everything you did only showed up to everyone else some ten seconds after you actually did it and you had to carry a sign around you at all times, to prevent bus drivers from running over you and the like (and I'm not sure why carrying a sign around you works. Oh wait, I just realized: if they could see the sign you're carrying ahead of them five seconds ago, or later, or summat, that would give them enough warning to stop ahead of their time so they don't hit you in your time. Or something.)
Okay, enough flogging
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Choose your Own Adventure? Or what? (I used to read a number of those as a teen.)
At first I thought it was "Cover your Arse/Ass".
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In fact, I tended to get killed a lot :p and then get discouraged from doing that book again.
(I never owned any of those books, only checked them out from the school library from time to time.)
Actually, I lie, I had one book once but I lost it at some point :( Was rather disappointed when I realised I couldn't find it anywhere.
That was one of the easier ones; the tough ones from the library were "Warlock of Firetop Mountain" series, whatever that one was called. The one I had was some kind of futuristic sci-fi setting.