Check's Ramblings

Great website for travelers: PluggedInns.com - US Hotels with High Speed Internet Access.

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So, I'm sitting in my hotel room in Fayetteville, NC and my room has free high speed internet access (~300K). Since I didn't bring a Cat5 cable with me, the hotel was nice enough to loan me one for a $25 deposit. This room has a desk and a bed. The internet connection is by the bed, not the desk. The cable the loaned me is only about six feet long, no where NEAR long enough to reach the desk. I find this interesting. Did they figure out that most people would rather lay in bed and surf rather than sit at the desk? I'm just glad that the hotel has high speed internet access even if it is slower than my cable modem at home. The odd thing is that from what I can tell, this is the only hotel in Fayettevill, NC that has "high speed" internet connections in the rooms. That's what sold me. I wonder if there is a site somewhere that lists hotels in different cities with high speed internet access. If there is, I'd like to know the URL. I'd choose those hotels everytime. If there isn't, there should be one. Hmmm. Not ANOTHER idea for a website. I've already got more than I know what to do with.

Can you tell, I'm bored in a hotel room? Commercials will do that to ya. I don't watch commercials at home so I don't know what to do with myself when they come on (I've got two PVRs in my living room).

What is the deal with the political ads? When I heard Lyndon LaRouche putting his radio ads on the air I thought he was nuts because he begain every ad by saying "This is Lyndon LaRouche, I've approved the following message". Now it seems like every ad I hear has the candidate saying "I've approved this message". If I see the candidate talking to the camera during the ad the I pretty much figured out that they approved the message. Why do they need to use these magic words? Maybe it's just me but it gets old after a while.

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I've been inspired by a coworker to create a blog. Will I actually continue to post here, time will tell but here I am.