Happy Thursday and Happy Draft Day! Today is night 1 of the NFL Draft – who’s excited? Who are you dreaming your team snags for the 2022 season?
In This Issue: Yard Games and Cookouts | 3M LC-LC OM3 | Single Mode vs Multimode Fiber Cables | News to Start Your Day
The CK Daily – Yard Games and Cookouts
This past weekend was a blast. The weather was great and I ended up going to several cookouts. It’s always nice to get together with people to cook out, relax, and have fun, especially with friends you haven’t had a chance to see for a while. Part of the cookout festivities included a wide selection of yard games. This has kinda become a thing in the new neighborhood. Everyone has their own different games that they bring over. We had everything from ladder ball to Kan Jam, cornhole to badminton, and everything in-between. The competitive nature tends to really come out in people when their favorite game is being played.
This year I invested in some new cornhole boards. I wanted some that were durable but were kinda different than just your normal boards. I got competition-level boards with a flag design on them and had built-in led lights. They seemed to be the hit of the later cookout, especially when it got dark. I have to admit they were a bit cooler than I thought they might be. Below is a cool pic I got of them in the evening.
So, what’s your favorite backyard game to play with friends and family?
Have a great Thursday and upcoming weekend!
Jason
Product Spotlights & Updates
Fiber optic cabling is the medium of choice for longer-distance and challenging cabling runs. These 3M LC-LC OM3 fiber patch cables are thinner than copper patch cords and immune to EMI (Electromagnetic Interference) making them perfect for riser runs and uplink cables.
Learning Center Article – Single Mode vs Multimode Fiber Cables
Fiber optics are essential for building the most capable networks, but when making design choices, there are plenty of options that serve fiber optics in general. One of the primary choices available to any network engineer exists between single-mode fiber and multimode fiber.
These are physically different approaches to fiber optics communication, and as such, they offer different strengths and weaknesses. To effectively choose the right design for your network, it helps to have a better understanding of what separates these types of cables.
Today’s News to Start Your Day:
- Australia has opened a facility that will ‘blast’ human waste and convert it into fertilizer.
- Denmark has announced that they plan to halt their Covid vaccination program.
- American Trevor Reed, a US citizen and former Marine who had been detained in Russia since 2019, is back in the United States. The release ended a nearly three-year ordeal for Reed, who was sentenced to nine years in prison in July 2020 for endangering the “life and health” of Russian police officers in an altercation.
- Moderna has asked the FDA to authorize its Covid vaccine for children ages 6 months to 5 years old.