old and ignorant, and creaky too

I've been having some issues with my right hip during yoga. It doesn't hurt when I'm just walking around, or even during basketball, but whenever I do a hard stretch like a right side split I'll notice. I was afraid I had a stress fracture or something, because the last time I had persistent pain it turned out I had a stress fracture in my left foot (although that healed by itself). Anyway, my doctor thinks I have early arthritis in my hip. Ugh. She thinks all that gymnastics as a kid might have contributed, because gym inflicts a lot of trauma on your joints (well duh). Now they tell me. I guess the 4-year-old me wouldn't have known what arthritis was anyway.

duh...what?

Every once in awhile I'm reminded of how some things are just way over my head.

I was doing an interview the other day, and asked the candidate to describe her current project. The first couple sentences out of her mouth involved something about "P4 structures" and "perfect graphs." I must have sounded sufficiently confused, because she spent a good five minutes explaining (pretty well, considering my ignorance) what she was talking about.

Speakeasy rocks

Wow, look what just landed in my inbox...

Speakeasy is kicking off its customer upgrade program, affectionately called Turbo Shot: Upgrading your need for speed! As part of our network and service upgrades, we're increasing your circuit's speed at absolutely NO COST to you.

Your upgrade will occur during the month of February, 2004, and we'll notify you via email 7 days in advance of your scheduled upgrade.

We will upgrade your service from 608/128 to 1.5/384 - all the same great services complemented by an increased speed for the same base monthly fee you pay now!

I've had Speakeasy DSL ($49.95/month) for six months now. My favorite features:
- no port blocking and/or server restrictions
- policies that explicitly allow wireless and other internal networks
- static IP, woohoo!
- support for non-Windows operating systems
- customer service people who understand traceroute results and tell me to run ifconfig

Me like. Why anyone would voluntarily continue to use Comcast for high-speed internet is beyond me, especially at $56.95/month ($42.95 if you subscribe to their crappy cable TV).