twangster

Nice chat with our Loyalty Ambassador just now. Vernon is such a nice guy. There were around 140 crystal blocks awarded this cruise. Vernon wanted guests to board the ship and find their blocks waiting for them so he stayed up until 1am the night before turn around to get it done. He has a sample of the new style blocks on board. Old and new style. Rear Side I like the new style. After the 140 distributed this cruise there are around 200 of the old style on board. He leaves early June for vacation and he's not sure when the old style will run out.

I logged into one of the ship computers. The upload speed is a little better. I noticed a different public IP address. On other ships I've experienced load balancing across the multiple Starlink antennas on a session basis. On Radiance they appear to be allocating different areas of the ship, or different subnets, or different logins to different Starlink antennas yielding a different public IP address. Logging back in on my phone it's another address different from my cabin and the ship computer. So they aggregating the bandwidth across multiple Starlink antennas but are doing it differently from another ship. Maybe they are trying different approaches to see what yields the best user experience.

I've read reports that Voom works best at the Voom computer area on deck 7. I suspect that because there is a Meru access point on top of the desk area. Top speeds are not any faster, it's just a more reliable signal.

Voom pricing onboard

Looks like I lost count last night. 7 of 6 drink coupons used.

Diamond Concierge hours

DL Spread Pretty much the same as the CL spread:

Look ma! No chair hogs.

Radiance has a unique piece of art hanging in the Centrum compared to her sisters.

Deck 12 above Centrum

Someone needs golf lessons

Twangster sunrise/sunset camera tip: Most smartphones and a lot of cameras try to average the exposure. This can lead to blown out sunrise and sunset pictures. If you tap and hold it locks focus and brings up an exposure slider. On Android slide left, on iPhone its a vertical slider IIRC so slide down This reduces the overexposure.

Good morning from the middle of somewhere...

Starlink at the moment: Voom did hiccup briefly just now. After being online this morning I suddenly wasn't and had to log in again to Voom on the same device. Once logged in its been fine. Just a Voom-ism. This wasn't related to Starlink, I don't think. ping 4.2.2.3 --- 4.2.2.3 ping statistics --- 39 packets transmitted, 39 packets received, +4 duplicates, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 33.330/82.414/381.757/63.091 ms curl icanhazip.com 129.222.80.222

Day Three - Sea Day Position report

Unfortunately the milky way is mostly down under this time of year. This will have to do.

That doesn't work over Voom. Not well.

Link to my myfans page here:

Other presentation of MDR menu for day 2:

The Piano Man in the main theater Apologoze for the low quality cell phone pics. It was a good performance.

Trivia in the pub Apparently, it is (or was) illegal for a woman to skydive on Sunday in Florida. Let's not talk about Texas.

Did I post an MDR day 2 menu already?