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great fun

23:06 Wednesday 08 December 1999

Wow!!

Today work was cool; a guy named Rey installed the circuit for our SDSL connection. That is just the 'local loop' which connects to our demarc, but not all the way to our router. In other words, we are closer to having DSL, but not yet.

I read/skimmed through the 258 page PDF file on the Netopia R7100 router which should be arriving soon via UPS.

Went to the KTRU weekly DJ meeting; station manager Meg was not there, so Dennis filled in for her. I must say the meeting was a lot quicker!

Also helped Kevin with some javascript stuff. He was coding some SAS modules to output Javascript code for our website. I had written the javascript for my offline HTML application; I showed him how to translate it to have his SAS module write it.

That was the boring part of my day.

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After work, I drove down to Ares Robotics, where we are building all of the altars for Techno Cosmic Mass tomorrow. Talked to Richard who was a bit frazzled; he wanted to have been this far completed last week, but we are doing the best we can with the time we were given.

My water table had a layer of plastic over it and a pool at one end so the pump could sit in it and push water to the top for the sprayers.

We didn't have sprayers, though. Richard went with me to Home Depot. I had a great time, and I swear he was like a little kid in a candy store. Really. In mis mind he had a vision of what he wanted to build, but didn't really know exactly how he wanted to do it. I recognized his technique as he summed it up later, "I just walk around until I find the perfect thing to do the job."

We bought the following:

12 foot garden hose, garden hose to 1/2" adapter, four 1/2 X 12" pipes, four 1/2" T fittings, one 90 degree fitting, six 1/2" close connectors, and five shower heads.

ascii picture time:

    
   SSaaT=====T=====T=====T=====9
   S   ^     ^     ^     ^     ^
  S  
   S
   S
    S

 S = garden hose  
 a = adapter
 T = T fitting
 = = 1/2" pipe
 9 = 89 degree fitting
 ^ = shower head
     close connectors are between S and a and connecting all the ^

We also grabbed some blue pastic tarp and a blue shower curtain and some blue paint and some teflon tape and some lights. Back at the shop tonight we connected all the plumbing and layed out a design for the plastic tarp (as a skirt around the table) and the lights. The mountain fountain that Wende and I made will cover the pump. It will be fantastic; I am ecstatic!!

Madeline's Earth Altar is not as far along; Richard asked if I can be in charge of helping her get it finished tomorrow. No problem. Hers will be relatively simple; no moving parts or flowing water or anything.

When I got home, there was a message from the mom of a friend of mine, telling me about the TCM and that I might want to go!! Yay! The word is out there!

I am to be back at Ares at 7:30am. It's 11:30pm now. Good night!!

With Love
- Rob permalink

netopia R7100

noon Wednesday 8 December 1999

Today at work I'm reading all about Netopia R7100 router which we will use 
for SDSL soon.  258 page PDF document on the web.  I'll get to program the 
firewall and learn how to hook this sucker up to replace our T1 and its 
router.  I think it will practically be as simple as disconnecting one 
cable from the T1 router and connecting it to the DSL router.  Sweet!!

During testing, before this simple switchover, I think I'll have the DSL 
router connected directly to my machine so I can have a 416k modem all to 
myself!  "oh yes sir, I'm still testing it.  Probably a couple more days to 
make sure it's perfect."

	With Love
	- Rob