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Thursday, October 06, 2005

Plugged In

The first full infrastructure install of broadband-over-powerline (BPL) technology has been brought online in Manassas, Virgina. Of course, there are complainers:

Local ham radio operators are complaining that the installation interferes with their activities.

Allow me to translate: "WAaaAAAaaAAHHhhhh! Your evil automobile is scaring my horse! Waaaaaahhh!"

I hate hobbyists.

posted by Jar(egg)head at 12:27

5 Comments:

Blogger the mad angel of Periwinkle said...

*grins mischievously* Hmmm... Gamers aren't hobbyists?

11:55  
Blogger Jar(egg)head said...

Not in the sense that I'm using the term. When I say "hobbyist," I mean someone who is obsessive about their hobby. I have lots of hobbies, but I don't obsess over any of them.

"Hobbyists" are the sort of weirdos who go to conventions, attend long seminars, and have protracted arguments about minute, meaningless details. There are a few like them in every hobby, and they invariably think of themselves as "authorities in the field"--this delusional conviction is normally accompanied by visions of themselves in royal purple, seated upon a throne.

In my experience, however, ALL ham radio operators are like that. They fall into approximately the same psychological category as survivalists. There's just something about their brain chemistry that's not quite right.

12:45  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Not sure if you can put ALL hams in that catagory, you have friends who are licensed radio operators.....

I don't have a great issue with BPL, but that said it shouldn't interfere with any other radio spectrum.

Granted there are some real strange ones in the hobby. But then again, many of the radio services and technologies in use today were originally pioneered and developed by the radio hobbyist

--jv

01:21  
Blogger Jar(egg)head said...

I stand corrected. Nearly ALL. Excepting only Jimmy and people who he says aren't weirdos. =oP

12:15  
Blogger The Mad Builder of Periwinkle said...

Maybe its a side effect of them sitting between big frequency oscillators all day. :)


I'll leave it to others to decide what effects attending all those SciFi Conventions has had on Me. *winks at the mad angel*

11:29  

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