We had our The First Mindless Diversions Friday Night Google Groups Chat Thingamabob! And it was mostly successful… but we lost Katherine to the internet a handful of times (which sucked) but we kept with James K and Glyph (and that was awesome).
Check us out!
Also, we’re going to take a week off for you to get your copy of The Sandman Vol. 2: The Doll’s House
A warning: There are Game of Throne Spoilers therein.
That was a lot of fun to watch (although painful when Katherine started to say something and you just KNEW it would be awesome and then the internet cut out).
Also, James K, it would be very awesome if you made some sort of Terry Pratchett guest post.
I’m honestly not sure what I’d say that hasn’t been said 100 times before though. Pratchett is a legend after all.
Don’t look at it that way. Look at it like this: There are a lot of people who, through no fault of their own, are grownups. They don’t read fantasy, they certainly don’t read comic fantasy.
Some of them frequent this website, again, through no fault of their own.
Even if you don’t think that you could write a post for the audience of James K-types… do you think you could write a post for the audience of Jaybird types? (Those who never read Pratchett until Schilling linked to that Cohen the Barbarian story in these very comments?)
I’ll think it over, but I’ll probably end up plowing through my trade sequence on the front page first.
I could not possibly ask for anything more than that.
You could talk about your own experiences reading the books, which ones speak the most to you and why, and all that. Pratchett has been talked about 100 times before, but not *by you*. ‘Scool if you have other stuff to do, I was just stating my fond wish :).
It was fun to see you guys, and Jaybird’s Skyrim-grade beard.
I’ve been thinking about Katherine’s issue and something jumped out:
She had to leave to get the pizza guy at the door, right? Were the people who ordered this pizza playing something online on the 360?
Because, I realized, that her symptoms exactly matched what happens when Maribou and I are squabbling over the resource that is household bandwidth. There is enough for one person to do everything they want but not enough for two people to do so.
Either that, or there could be some source of interference nearby, that can be fixed by changing the channel on the wireless router.
Video chat is a giant pig on your bandwidth. If you’re video chatting, ban everyone else from doing anything on the web for an hour.
Hilarious that you pegged pizza guy as a signal that someone might be doing online 360 stuff. My first thought as well.
Sorry I didn’t make this one. Evenings are problematical generally.
Works when you’re a family; doesn’t work when you’re renting. But I’ve Skyped with family and not had serious issues; I think it was connecting to several people instead of just one that the internet couldn’t handle.
Also, Ethernet is better than WiFi, and make sure that your computer itself is in tip-top shape (close other applications, maybe shut down and restart prior to the chat). These are the things that I have learned to do in the last week or so.
With Macs in particular, memory usage seems to grow inexorably over time. I thought that when I upgraded from 4GB to 8GB, there’d always be plenty of space, but I still need to restart apps and/or reboot to free it up.
Could be, or my internet connection could just not be very good. But I was having all kinds of issues with my internet yesterday too, and I’m not having them today.