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Trip of a Lifetime

To clarify: We went to Cape Breton Island, which is part of Nova Scotia.
Yeah I looked it up. Looks cool. We did Niagra, lower half of VT, breezed through Southern NH and then did 8 days in ME one time. Always wanted to go back to see upper VT, all of NH, revisit ME (especially Camden) and then head up to Nova Scotia. We will do this in a few years in the new adventure rig and take about 5 weeks.

On a side note, someone along the trip suggested we do West Point and we followed their advice. Glad we did as it was one of the highlights of our trip. We only had a few hours but loved it. So much history and gorgeous setting. We will go back when we can spend more time.
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Summer Movies?

I took the afternoon off from work (OK, I was sent home for not having enough flair) and went to see Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. Thought it was outstanding.

Thought it was OK. Liked other Tarantino films more (but I don't like comparing someone by their previous work, something Christopher Nolan hates as well).

I liked the background noises (radio commercials) and 60's decor (the signage) more than anything.

Sad that I don't think Harvey Keitel or Samuel L. Jackson were in it (but I didn't look too hard). Funny that Sensei Kreese from "The Karate Kid" was in it.

I 100% think QT has a fetish for a certain body part. It's pretty obvious.
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Roku/Google TV, vs DirecTv/Cable

Have any of you been following the next Elon Musk business venture where he hopes to provide fiber type internet speeds (up and down) to all locations, even deep country areas, by satellite?
If you live in an area like me, country, woods and farms, internet speeds are a big limiting factor. I’ve looked into satellite based services a few different times over the past 10-15 years. Sadly, the upload speeds have been the breaking point in the technology for me. So, I’ve been forced to stick with DSL, as it’s my only option for high speed service. I get 25 down and 1.5 up.
Musk’s new business vision uses a new satellite based technology implementation that has 3 shells, or layers, of satellites at various depths or distances from earth. These shells would handle various tasks but together they hope to get fiber type of speeds nearly anywhere. And they hope to sign American based military services as one of their first customers.
I hope they are able to accomplish this, it would be awesome for my area. But it’s also more crap in our nights sky. Thoughts?

I've been somewhat following it. There are currently 3 different companies working on putting this technology into space over the next 2 years, however Elon's is furthest along at this point. Basically, think of it as Mesh Technology on a global scale with satellites. One concern I would have is that it requires ground connectivity from "stations" placed all over the world that are connected to the internet, and then the satellites would connect to those stations which then provides satellite internet service to you. In short, there's an extra point of failure and "hop" for all internet traffic.

Still, as you pointed out for anyone limited to slower speeds this will be HUGE.
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BTN BTN Prepares for the 2019 Big Ten Football Season

BTN Prepares for the 2019 Big Ten Football Season
BTN Communications via Big Ten Network

Ahead of the Big Ten Network’s 13th football season, BTN president François McGillicuddy today shared the network’s perspective on the 2019 season at Big Ten Football media days. “We are responsible for representing all Big Ten institutions across more than 40 games and over 750 hours of programming during 14 weeks of the 2019 Big Ten Football regular season,” said McGillicuddy. “To do that, our focus will be on three things –production of quality live games, compelling storytelling about the Big Ten Conference and the most expert Big Ten analysis.” The following updates were also provided: FOX Sports App Beginning

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