I called ihug to move my internet service to the new house. I was informed of a $99 relocation fee pushed to them by Telecom. I’m assuming that this is the same charge as the connection fee that is often charged when starting the service. I would like to know where this $99 goes, other than into the pockets of the shareholders. Am I getting $99 worth of service?

I’ve looked around online and asked a few technical people about what work is required to connect a DSL service to a house.¹ The best answer that I could get is that an analog filter needs to be installed on the line and the line plugged into a multiplexer. I can see about 10 minutes of work there. That also brings up the question of why there is a delay of up to 10 working days for the connection. Can the volume of connection requests really be that high? And if it is, why is everyone paying that much? Shouldn’t the cost of travel times to site be averaged out when there’s a schedule of work to be done? What’s going on here?

I think we’re just getting ripped off. But this is hardly a new comment made towards Telecom.

In any case, I should have network access from the house by around the end of September.

fn. Consider that the house has already had DSL service, so any house wiring is already capable.

There is a cat that lives at my new house. He’s named Seven. I thought it was odd to use a number as a name, but it’s an interesting idea for a sci-fi story.

The premise would be that identity is explicitly tied to age. This is sort of true already, in that people refer to age groups and imply a characteristic. This could be taken further in that all people of an age are tied together and can be referred to interchangeably—the concept of the hive mind, but with a dependence on age. Imagine a scene where a 7 year old is talking with an 8 year old. It has the same effect as all 7 year olds talking with all 8 year olds, except that there are only two bodies physically present for the conversation.

An implication from this could be that since communication is so easy within an age, wisdom is rarely passed down through generations—it’s just too difficult to communicate that way. This might lead to a sense of competition and conflict.

This whole idea is quite blurry, and only exists here as a reminder to come back to it at some point. But if there is something written along these lines, I’d be interested in reading it. If only I had comments enabled already…

Thou shalt never waste a moment of true inspiration.