Bandwidth

I was glancing back over my past few posts, and I realized that I don't have many to glance over. This is largely due to a lack of bandwidth. Some of you probably don't know what bandwidth is except that more of it is better than less of it. Allow me to indulge my inner nerd and explain.

Imagine the connection between your computer and the Internet as a two lane highway. In one lane, cars carry information from your computer to the Internet (such as what website you'd like to see), and in the other lane you have cars bringing information to your computer (such as music from www.allofmp3.com). If you aren't sending and receiving very much information then the cars flow down the highway without incident. When you start sending and receiving lots of cars then traffic starts to build up and things slow down. If you build up enough traffic, all the cars pretty much come to a halt.

There are two ways to decrease traffic and increase flow. The first would be to increase the speed limit on the highway. A higher speed limit would allow cars to get from their origin to their destination faster. This works up to a point, but if their are enough cars even the autobahn will get a traffic jam. Eventually, you will need to expand the highway and add more lanes. If you expand the lanes from two to six then multiple cars can travel on the same highway at the same time in the same direction, and all will arrive their faster since they their won't be any traffic build ups.

Alright, now that you understand bandwidth, I need some. I need mental bandwidth. I think my brain is going about as fast as it can go, but I still can't think about all the things I need to think about. During the school semester, I spend so much time studying that it my brain is in traffic jams pretty much every minute of the day. With school taking up so much of my mental capacity, any other distraction can easily bring my mind to a bumper to bumper standstill.

Currently, I've got a situation at school I'm trying to resolve (my professor flunked me for not formatting my paper correctly), and I'm trying to keep up with my reading. Add to that a part-time job, a wife, a dog, and an ice storm that my school refuses to cancel class for and my brain can barely keep my vital organs functioning, much less think about things I'd like to think about or come up with anything interesting for this blog.

Anyway, my brain is shutting down now. Goodbye.