Genetic Engineering

I have decided to become a genetic engineer today.

I am going to breed guppies I figure I can have a new batch of guppies every 3 months. They are like little rabbits that live underwater.

I will start from just regular guppies at the pet store. Yah it will take longer, but what is the fun of getting a pure-bred to start off with? I want my guppies to be hardy, I will make the fish tanks come to the edge of dangerous levels of ph, nitrate, nitrite etc... The weaker fish will die off and I will have a strong breed and they will be cockroach of the freshwater fish tank, a nuclear bomb could go off and they will still live. I also think a lot of the pure bred guppies out there are inbred, so they might be purebred, but what good is a pure-bred slack-jawed yokel?

What will I do with all the extra guppies that I decide not to keep? I have some friends with oscars that will gladly eat them.

Broadvoice failure to register

I woke up this morning picked up the phone and realized that I had no dial-tone :( I think this is the second time this has happened. I am using VOIP provided by broadvoice. I wonder how long it has been off-line? It looks like I missed 2 phone calls.

I checked my net connection and everything was good. I could also log-in to my sipura and watch it fail to register every 15 seconds... I had this happen before, so I unplugged my VOIP adapter and plugged it back in, but it still would not register. (That is what fixed the problem last time...) I can hit my VOIP using ping and telnet'ed in to the port my sipura was supposed to be registering at.

I fired up the trusty packet sniffer and found my linksys router was dropping packets being sent to the sipura 2100 from the WAN... Although the through LAN everything was working like it should have. A quick reboot of my linksys wrt54g and I have dial-tone again!

It looks like I need to write an little application to monitor the sipura to email and page my cell phone when I lose connection, so I don't miss any phone calls.