[06:31] <pleia2> nhaines: hung out with Louise \o/
[06:32] <pleia2> she says you are wonderful, and wants me to send her more nhaineses
[06:34] <nhaines> Oh, how nice!  :D
[06:34] <pleia2> :)
[06:34] <nhaines> I set up my Amazon Author Central page the other day and I'm so excited!
[06:34] <pleia2> haha, she told me!
[06:34] <pleia2> "now I know what he looks like"
[06:34] <nhaines> lol
[06:34] <nhaines> She has a Twitter account and now I know what she looks like!
[06:34] <pleia2> hehe
[06:34] <nhaines> It'll be cool to meet her at SCALE.  :)
[06:35] <pleia2> yeah
[06:59] <nhaines> Writing a book's fun.  I'm getting notes back on the first chapters now and it's really interesting to see what everyone thought.
[06:59] <nhaines> Except for Jess, who was *supposed* to handwave all my technical details through and take the free money, not write a second novel in the comments.  ;)
[20:18] <Telendrith> Morning!
[20:19] <ianorlin> hi
[20:21] <Telendrith> No Hi!?! You haven't had enough coffee today
[20:21]  * ianorlin actually doesn't drink coffee
[20:22] <Telendrith> Wait. What?
[20:22] <Telendrith> I mean, I drink a cup of Tea before my coffee but I don't think I could go without the coffee half :|
[20:32] <Telendrith> I have a question I guess I could bounce off you guys
[20:33] <Telendrith> After 6 years of being in the Army, I'm finally finishing up and heading home. I live in the country, ok. That's a bad example, it's not country, it's strait up rural no-mans land. And as beautiful and magical as it is there's no internet, etc. How hard would it be to get rural internet or start a rural ISP
[20:34] <ianorlin> I don't honestly know but it could be hard because of costs of running cables and other things
[20:34] <ianorlin> and also if someone claims to have a deal but isn't serving it
[20:34] <ianorlin> with lots of regulation
[20:34] <akk> Rural ISPs often use wireless, I believe.
[20:35] <Telendrith> Interesting, I've heard that, but there's no LOS in our area :(
[20:35] <akk> I don't know how they get the connection that they then share out to their customers.
[20:35] <Telendrith> We'd haveto run fiber
[20:36] <Telendrith> It looks like the FCC and USDA run a few subsidies and grants
[20:36] <akk> There is satellite internet but latency is pretty terrible, I hear.
[20:36] <Telendrith> But how hard would the non-red tape part be
[20:37] <Telendrith> Like infrastructure, servers, etc be
[20:38] <ianorlin> finding qualified people in the area could be a problem as there might not be that many
[20:39] <Telendrith> I'd say there's about 20-120 people