Bite My Shiny Technological Ass!

I am sure all of us have gone through the experience of staring at the download process status bars that show how much of the data has been downloaded and how much more to go! Even though it might say the expected time left, we keep staring at it, hoping against hope, that somehow, it will accelerate and get done.

Of course, there are many situations you just get fed up, curse the network connection and close the whole darn thing! There is a limit to it, Isn't it? A tech company in South Africa, "Unlimited IT" got so fed up with the internet network speeds available there, performed a stunt where they attached a data card to the feet of a pigeon and the pigeon beat out the elctronic transfer of data to Capetown from Pietermaritzburg, a distance of 50 miles. The news report mentioned that, including the time to obtain the data from the card, the pigeon data transfer route took only 2:06:57 during which time, the internet network transferred a grand total of 4%. The pigeon took little more than an hour to cover the 50 miles. (Of course, the leave out the amount of data that was transferred). Weird wild stuff!