Mmmm... southern food

March 17, 2005 by Eric Richardson

It's fun to be back down here spending time in South Carolina. I've had a good chance to spend time with family, and Kathy and I are getting in the tourist things here and there (tomorrow we're heading down to Charleston for the day). No trip to the south, though, can help but center around food.

Monday night I had a fried chicken breast, mashed potatoes, biscuits, corn, and collared greens. Tuesday night I had fried shrimp, a baked potato, and hush puppies. Wednesday night I had stew beef on rice with peas and a biscuit, and peach cobbler for dessert. Tonight I had fried flounder, fried shrimp, and hush puppies. And of course, sweet tea.

So what if it's not healthy? It's good.

Fly-by

March 15, 2005 by Eric Richardson

I just looked out the window and saw three A-10 Warthogs buzzing low down the beach here in South Carolina. It's been a long time since I lived near an air force base and saw those planes all the time.

a fun looking ping

March 14, 2005 by Eric Richardson

I'm now in the Charlotte, NC, airport and again I'm online via my phone. Access where I'm sitting is a little ugly, though:

--- 206.124.64.1 ping statistics ---
576 packets transmitted, 410 received, +141 duplicates, 28% packet loss, time 575426ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 433.710/6312.642/73431.795/12311.383 ms, pipe 74

What's up with the duplicates? I get those everywhere on this connection.

Sitting in LAX

March 14, 2005 by Eric Richardson

I'm sitting in LAX Terminal 1 right now, waiting for our plane to board. I don't know if it's just me, but we're flying US Air this time and I'm finding the whole process just confusing. First of all, always avoid airlines in the same terminal as Southwest. Their lines invade everything. But then US Air has multiple gates clustered in the same area, and people line up when nothing says that any particular flight is boarding. So our flight might be starting to board, or it might not. I just don't know.

Fun With SMTP

March 13, 2005 by Eric Richardson

I'll warn you ahead of time, this post's geeky.

Before I head out east tomorrow morning, I wanted to get email working on my phone. Like Sean I don't plan to recieve email on the phone, but I do want to be able to use it for sending photos. The s710a actually has pretty much the same email configuration any normal email client would have, so most of the settings were easy enough to configure. But authenticated SMTP (sending mail) was failing, and I needed to figure out why... — Continue Reading...