Not dead!

Out here in beautiful Fauquier County, we've been having some connectivity issues. We're not connected to the inter-tubes by anything so ordinary and mundane as a wire or fiber-optic cable. Noooooo! Instead, there's a cable from Ashburn, microwave to an undisclosed location, and last-mile transmission over radio frequencies usable only because the FCC is run by idiots. We're not making this up.

So let's return to basics.  Via xkcd.