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To: Jay Lowe who wrote (900)	1/8/2000 3:15:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1782

Isn't it just like a poloist (1) to return from peregrination (2) and begin handing out homework assignments, immediately. Unfortunately, I'm monopolizing the only "viable" telephone line out of four (not counting cell/pcs) in the house right now and can't hang around here too long, due to a multiline-, probably a cable-, failure somewhere here in the hood. No, I'm not out there trying to fix them, I'm trying to get the telephone company to do that. I don't know which is harder, though: Reporting the problems to the telco, or finding a ladder and putting on a tool pouch? I've been arm-wrestling with several telco repair service attendants throughout the day, trying to convince them that if I hear cross talk and crossed dialing along with supervisory signaling from other peoples phones on the line (we're talking copper lines here, not analog cellular), then the problem isn't - it can't be - inside my home. (I was tempted to use onr of those exclamation points, just then.) I get the warning anyway about "I must advise you that if the problem is in your equipment we will need to bill you...", for each number that I report, and they refuse to give me a blanket trouble ticket number for all at once. Oi.. Here we are talking 10Gb-TTH within a couple of years, whilst I struggle with a batting average of .250 over the survivability of four POTS lines. ------ I'm glad to see you return and back up to your usual form. I'll return at bit later (and at a less p.o.'ed time) to see what I can do with the future, and the other issues that you brought up. For now let me just say that a part of the future, unfortunately, has just passed before my eyes while I've been arguing with "my" telco. In light of that particular situation, in fact, I feel like I've just stepped back in time a couple of legitimate decades. And as I've been typing this memo the future has probably accelerated a bit without my noticing, or at least with little if any consequences, that I can discern. Anything beyond 18 months is a total craps shoot. Before 18 months and over 9 months, I give it a maybe. We live in tactical times now, not strategic times. Or at least not as strategic as we'd all like to think, in any event. Regards, Frank ======== Note 1. Marco Polo was born in Venice in 1254. His father Nicolo Polo was a merchant. When he was 17, he went to China with his father and uncle. ----------- Note 2. per·e·gri·nate Pronunciation: 'per-&-gr&-"nAt Function: verb Inflected Form(s): -nat·ed; -nat·ing Date: 1593 intransitive senses : to travel especially on foot : WALK transitive senses : to walk or travel over : TRAVERSE - per·e·gri·na·tion /"per-&-gr&-'nA-sh&n/ noun

To: Jay Lowe who wrote (900)	1/10/2000 3:55:00 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1782

Hola Jay (or is it Juan?) Having slipped my noose at the GTR Forum, I return to what is a most paradisical palliase of postprandial perspicacity. Kudos to the Coluccio Clan. Begorra! This jester commends the crowd for assailing the nebulous niches of the lingua franca. Well said, gentlemen. Re: ....very tangible sensation of having to dial up my internal clock about 300% to retrain on the internet signal." Jay, I recommend the Gilder Forum thread for you. If you have any concern about Internet time being too frantic, that POS will surely cure you. Lately it's been closer to the next ice age than global intellectual warming. Not only does bandwidth matter, but servers and processing must also keep apace if this whole thing is to ramp. Glad you had a good time, I brought in New Year's on the beach in San Diego. Had a great "hail ball" fight with my nephew on New Year's Eve. Very kuhl. Ciao, Ray