{"id":2997,"date":"2010-08-02T11:39:49","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T18:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/?p=2997"},"modified":"2022-12-28T13:35:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T21:35:13","slug":"getting-settled-in-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/getting-settled-in-austin\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting settled in Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Welcome<\/p>\n

We made it! \u00a0Driving a moving truck almost 2000 miles across America was no picnic (it gets HOT in Arizona) but ~4 days of travel were relatively uneventful (only one flat tire!). Pretty much everything made it intact, including a few hundred pounds of lab benches and equipment. \u00a0(Note to self, next time get twice as many moving pads as seems necessary!)<\/p>\n

My wife and I have been getting\u00a0acquainted\u00a0with our new city. \u00a0One of the interesting\/unique things about Austin is the local trailer food scene. \u00a0One example, shown below, is odd duck<\/a>, where you can purchase local, sustainable, gourmet wood fired food out of a trailer in South Austin. \u00a0Yum.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"odd<\/p>\n

The biggest downside to Austin I have found so far (aside from the lack of In-n-Out and Trader Joe’s) has been the pitiful upstream bandwidth that Time Warner provides with their Roadrunner internet service. \u00a0 Check out these Speedtest results:<\/p>\n

\"Time<\/p>\n

Holy\u00a0asymmetric\u00a0internet access, Batman!<\/p>\n

Compare those results with this test I ran before I packed up my computer in San Francisco:<\/p>\n

\"Comcast<\/p>\n

<\/a> Over 4 megabits! \u00a0If only I knew how lucky I was on Comcast when I could upload entire Flickr albums and HD videos in minutes!<\/p>\n

Time Warner – 512K? \u00a0Really?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Ok, that’s enough for now – time to unpack the power supplies and oscilloscope.<\/p>\n

PS. I almost forgot. \u00a0There are a few pictures of the move on Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We made it! \u00a0Driving a moving truck almost 2000 miles across America was no picnic (it gets HOT in Arizona) but ~4 days of travel were relatively uneventful (only one flat tire!). Pretty much everything made it intact, including a few hundred pounds of lab benches and equipment. \u00a0(Note to self, next time get twice … Continue reading Getting settled in Austin<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[328],"class_list":["post-2997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-austin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pioCd-Ml","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2980,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/mightyohm-is-moving\/","url_meta":{"origin":2997,"position":0},"title":"MightyOhm is moving!","author":"Jeff","date":"June 30, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I apologize for the slow updates as of late, but I have some big news that I would like to share with you: MightyOhm is moving to Austin, Texas! 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