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pshrynk · 06-26-2008, 09:14 AM

I have proof positive that James Tiberius Kirk, Captain of USS Enterprise is real. Just bear with me here.

So, I have a Kindle. I live in La Crosse, WI, population about 200,000 all told. Kindle has Sprint wireless as the engine to get books downloaded direct to it from Amazon.

If you go to the Amazon site and look around enough, there is a map that shows coverage for Whispernet and what sort of quality you can expect from it. On the map orange is good (EVDO) green is okay (+1) and white is right out.

La Crosse, population around 200K is green, with a lot of white all around it. The kindle works fine, and I have no problems with it.

Now, the proof:

I am going home to Washington, IA, population about 5,000 when the wind is in the right direction and there's not a good movie on in Iowa City. It is the County Seat of Washington County.

I wanted to take my Kindle along and show off to my sibs what a cool toy it is, so I checked the coverage, thinking that it would be highly uncool to show how badly the device work when there is no signal.

Fully expecting there to be gobs of white space all over that part of Iowa, I logged on. Yes, there are areas of Iowa that have no coverage, and a lot of green with a blobs of orange aorund Iowa City, Cedar Rapids, the Quad Cities, and Des Moines.

And a little orange blob right in Washington County. Now, bear in mind that Washington did not have touch tone phones as late as 1983, when I graduated med school. My mom does not own a computer. She gets upset at the complexity of her new cell phone (it has a camera!) She is very prototypical of Washingtonians.

SO WHY THE FAR DOES WASHINGTON COUNTY HAVE EVDO AND I GOTTA PUT UP WITH 1+???!!??!

Here's proof that James Kirk will exist: In the "biography" of Kirk, written when the original series was on TV, they threw out that he was "born and rasied on his uncle's farm, in Iowa. Later, as a publicity stunt, Riverside, Iowa, (Washington County) declared itself the "Future Birthplace of Captain Kirk." Shatner even did a reality show there once.

A little Podunk type town in the middle of farking nowhere has advanced reception for the Kindle before vast tracts of population. Coincidence? I don't think so. The reason that Capt Kirk is destined to be who is will be is that he is going to be born in an anomolous site of advanced technology.

06-26-2008, 09:14 AM	#1
pshrynk Beepbeep n beebeep, yeah! Posts: 11,726 Karma: 8255450 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: La Crosse, Wisconsin, aka America's IceBox Device: iThingie, KmkII, I miss Zelda!	Kirk is real! I have proof positive that James Tiberius Kirk, Captain of USS Enterprise is real. Just bear with me here. So, I have a Kindle. I live in La Crosse, WI, population about 200,000 all told. Kindle has Sprint wireless as the engine to get books downloaded direct to it from Amazon. If you go to the Amazon site and look around enough, there is a map that shows coverage for Whispernet and what sort of quality you can expect from it. On the map orange is good (EVDO) green is okay (+1) and white is right out. La Crosse, population around 200K is green, with a lot of white all around it. The kindle works fine, and I have no problems with it. Now, the proof: I am going home to Washington, IA, population about 5,000 when the wind is in the right direction and there's not a good movie on in Iowa City. It is the County Seat of Washington County. I wanted to take my Kindle along and show off to my sibs what a cool toy it is, so I checked the coverage, thinking that it would be highly uncool to show how badly the device work when there is no signal. Fully expecting there to be gobs of white space all over that part of Iowa, I logged on. Yes, there are areas of Iowa that have no coverage, and a lot of green with a blobs of orange aorund Iowa City, Cedar Rapids, the Quad Cities, and Des Moines. And a little orange blob right in Washington County. Now, bear in mind that Washington did not have touch tone phones as late as 1983, when I graduated med school. My mom does not own a computer. She gets upset at the complexity of her new cell phone (it has a camera!) She is very prototypical of Washingtonians. SO WHY THE FAR DOES WASHINGTON COUNTY HAVE EVDO AND I GOTTA PUT UP WITH 1+???!!??! Here's proof that James Kirk will exist: In the "biography" of Kirk, written when the original series was on TV, they threw out that he was "born and rasied on his uncle's farm, in Iowa. Later, as a publicity stunt, Riverside, Iowa, (Washington County) declared itself the "Future Birthplace of Captain Kirk." Shatner even did a reality show there once. A little Podunk type town in the middle of farking nowhere has advanced reception for the Kindle before vast tracts of population. Coincidence? I don't think so. The reason that Capt Kirk is destined to be who is will be is that he is going to be born in an anomolous site of advanced technology. Last edited by pshrynk; 06-26-2008 at 05:44 PM.