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I bought it 2 years ago. A brand new NIC card for my computer a Linksys I believe. Having no use for one before my freshman year of college my computer had no NIC card pre-installed. Two weeks before classes started I trudged to the Best Buy on Ann Arbor Saline Road. Never having used anything faster than a ISDN line on 30 year old wire I was a little excited at the prospect. Apparently Best Buy had anticipated my excitement, as they often do, and had a huge stack of lynksis NIC cards 3/4 the height of an adult. Not knowing any better I fled to the checkout with my prize. Upon inspecting the network card in the car I was pleasantly surprised to find out that it had a second connector on it. A round connector. I figured this must be some new wave of light speed communication that has yet to be fully realized. Oh how wrong I was. The connection of course was BNC. A relic really. And the card itself was a 10 meg card. The BNC connector I realized a year or two ago was not cool, or new at all. The latter, however, is something that had not been brought to my attention till this evening.

Working as a network administrator for the Departmental Computing Organization I consider myself a learned computer geek. I may even be a little proud of my geekey status. But, finding out all along that my NIC card has been running at 10 meg for 2 years enrages me to no end. To think that I wasted so much time waiting for a page to load or a file to download makes me crazy.

Lucky for me I recently acquired a free Ethernet card that I proceeded to throw in a box. Oh sure! Why would I ever dream to think that this free card would be better than my $20 marvel? Sigh!

Even luckier perhaps is the fact that this evening my old NIC card decided to stop working. Oh sure I was mad at the time. But then in a single moment of glory I remembered the free NIC card I had shoved away in a box. I switched them. And as I was inspecting the driver settings of the new NIC card I realized that this card was 10/100 meg and my old card was 10 meg.

And then I felt like a moron.
Game over man!

So, in closing I would just like to say, “So I’m thinking of ordering one of those mind erasing kits.”

Well, we are here. And by here I mean in the apartment of unbounded suckdom. Actually all things considered it’s really not as bad as I was expecting. Sure the bathroom sink leaked terribly when we moved in, and sure there was a fine layer of dust covering everything. But we have moved so far from then. For instance, the sink doesn’t leak anymore. The ceiling does. That’s right. The ceiling. From the light no less. An electrical hazard that could cause the building to go up any second.

Among all this. Classes have started. Three history courses and one Geology class. By some folly or perhaps a bit of dumb luck my Geology class will satisfy my upper level writing requirement. And it sounds like the easiest requirement ever.

On Saturday I got a new cell phone, a T68i. The most wonderful phone on the planet. It does AIM, E-mail, Internet, and glorious, glorious Bluetooth. I have no use for Bluetooth. YET!! But I envision a time where all of my digital electronic devices are connected wirelessly through a network of seamless functionality. It will happen I promise.

Register. Go ahead. It will work. I guarantee it. And not like a cheap Men’s Warehouse Guarantee. A genuine guarantee. It will tell you how many times you have visited. You’ll love it