Super Bowl -- First Half

[kevin_standlee]

I still can't figure out why the power supply would make a difference on wireless connectivity. I have two different power supplies for this Dell. If I plug in one of them, I can't connect. If I plug in the other, I can connect. Strange.

Glad I was actually watching as the game kicked off; otherwise I would have missed the opening fireworks. And speaking of fireworks, while watching Prince's halftime show, I kept wondering if someone was going to get electrocuted operating all of those electric devices in the rain.

Best ad of the first half, IMO: The Garmin "Ultraman" commercial.

Comments

[howeird]

Two possibilities with the power supply - as danjite pointed out, it could be RF interference, and it can also be one supply is delivering lower amperage. Wireless cards, especially built-in ones, are known to not work as well on batteries as they do plugged in, it's a short leap to one power supply working better than another.

Did not like the Garmin ad as much as I would have with less electric guitar and more musicality. And they should have started with the map turning into a monster, not waited till they had already introduced the character. I liked the ending of the Fedex In Space commercial. And was somewhat shocked that a drug company did the heart commercial as a total blatant capitalistic pointer to their web site when they could have afforded to be generous and include the heart and diabetes associations. And yes, the diabetes character was a hottie, and really should have been a 500-lb middle aged woman in sweats. The ad hit home because this week I go in for the glow-in-the-dark treadmill heart test.