I knew that she was a comedian but hadn’t seen any of her standup so I didn’t really have any attachment to her as a reason to want to watch the show. But I like it. It’s definitely getting better, but it also definitely depends on the chemistry of the guests. I remember the one with Gillian Jacobs (obligatory “oh, Britta’s in this?”) was particularly good. Their YouTube channel puts up a playlist of most (all?) of the previous night’s show, and it has become a regular watch while I’m doing emails etc in the morning.

Yeah, the inconsistency and congestion are the main things I wonder about. I’m not that sensitive to latency, but if it’s bad enough that video calls will get choppy regularly then maybe it’s not worth it. I have also wondered how home internet plans get prioritized. I haven’t noticed any significant performance or congestion issues on my phone on Mint/T-Mobile but I’m not pushing that connection as hard and as often as I would a home internet connection.

As far as I can tell, Starry is not available in my apartment building. They do love to send me junk mail anyway though. I think CenturyLink might be in my building, but I had an overwhelmingly negative experience with CenturyLink in Denver a while back and I’d really prefer to avoid them. Google Fiber does not look to be available in my building.

Looks like my options so far are:

• Comcast: Currently paying $60-70 (including fees) for I think 200Mbps, but I can probably call and haggle to get it down.
• CenturyLink fiber: $50 plus fees for 500Mbps. Probably plus equipment rental.
• T-Mobile: $60 flat plus a $150 cash card promo, but I can’t tell if I have to buy or rent the equipment without going deeper into the process. This would be $10-20 cheaper if I also had mobile service directly from T-Mobile instead of Mint Mobile.
• Verizon: $50 probably plus fees plus a $50 Target promo card. Not sure if there are equipment fees.

I might see about trying T-Mobile since they have a trial period and I’m guessing it’d be pretty pain free since it’s wireless and nobody needs to come do any installation or configuration like tends to happen with Comcast or CenturyLink. Maybe I can use that to haggle with Comcast.

Her new district is actually the eastern plains. And the western slope isn’t all bad. Fruita is pretty great.

It’s got what plants crave

I grew up in Alabama but live in Colorado now. If I were forced to live somewhere in Alabama, Huntsville would be at/near the top of my list. But it’s still Alabama, and I’d still waaay rather live in Colorado. It obviously doesn’t keep everyone away, and there’s a lot of inertia there with all the existing space/rocket/defense industry in Huntsville. But is Space Command even going to be hiring heavily in the engineering fields that are concentrated in Huntsville? (That’s a real question- I’d guess they’re not hiring primarily engineers that they’d find in Huntsville, but I don’t know.)