The Internet is Slo[connection lost]

I’m here at the Penguicon, and day 2 is going swimmingly better than day 1 did. The only downside is that I can’t seem to get a decent Internet connection. It may have something to do with the million geeks all sharing the same DSL line — but still, it’s frustrating.

So far today, I had a “lobby room discussion” with John and Krissy Scalzi, and also with Randall Monroe (of XKCD). Benjamin Mako Hill agreed to do an interview with me later, AND I think I’m having sushi for dinner. What a day!

In all honesty though, I really do miss my family like crazy. Since the Internet connection is so poor, we weren’t able to Skype well last night either, so I didn’t get my fix. So this is for my family, but y’all can watch:

This entry was written by Shawn Powers, posted on April 19, 2008 at 11:37 pm, filed under Family. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback.

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  1. Justin Ryan
    Posted April 19, 2008 at 11:53 pm | Permalink
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    We love you too Shawn!

    *spritzes breath spray*

    MWWWWWWWA!

    ;)

  2. Katherne
    Posted April 20, 2008 at 12:41 am | Permalink
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    What he said. :) hee hee.

  3. Monochrome Rainbows
    Posted April 20, 2008 at 9:31 am | Permalink
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    Someone there probably decided they had to upload 800Gb of video to their blog. It’s all one jerk killing the bandwidth for everyone.

    I bet that guy feels really smug right now, sitting on a throne wearing a monicle and tophat.

  4. Nathan
    Posted April 20, 2008 at 11:59 am | Permalink
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    Awwwwww!

  5. Topher
    Posted April 20, 2008 at 2:34 pm | Permalink
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    I heard you got to talk to the web guy for WaYfm too! Man, that would be SO COOL.

  6. Russ
    Posted April 20, 2008 at 8:54 pm | Permalink
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    13 years ago I remember when you watched the progress bar on a jpeg that took 45 minutes to download.

    Now the net is so slow you can only post a blog and a minute or so of video to your website. :) Hope you arrived home safely.

  7. Anne C.
    Posted April 20, 2008 at 10:34 pm | Permalink
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    Awww. We love you too, Shawn.

  8. Jeri
    Posted April 21, 2008 at 1:42 pm | Permalink
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    Awww. Hope you had a great time too. Make sure and clean the lens of your webcam, K? ;)

  9. Tania
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 2:26 am | Permalink
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    You are so sweet and wholesome. I feel like a bitter, cynical, nasty unpleasantness in comparison to you. Then again, I’m not married to Donna, maybe that would make a difference… Hmm. I’ll have to think about that.

  10. Monochrome Rainbows
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 9:23 am | Permalink
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    It’s been a long time since Shawn has posted. Did he make it back from penguicon?

  11. Shawn Powers
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 9:24 am | Permalink
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    Heheh… I’m alive, just trying to play catchup now. I’ll have a full report soon. :D

  12. Monochrome Rainbows
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 9:31 am | Permalink
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    Just wanted to make sure you didn’t take a wrong turn and end up in the ghetto or something.

  13. Peter Smith
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 4:34 pm | Permalink
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    Yeah, Shawn’s just being all social and outwards now that he’s back home; emailing everyone who had anything to do with Penguicon about how he can help out for NEXT year!

    Which is of course, always appreciated. :)

    Feeding the LAN Party, the 30 machines in the Computer Lounge, and everyone in their hotel rooms leaving their machines on doing who KNOWS what, off of the hotel’s baby T1, certainly was a problem. :)

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