George sighs. “He got my mother’s brain.”
“You installed a splitter with a dedicated carrier wave,” Sheldon says, voice flat. young sheldon s01e06 dsrip
“Dad, I’m handshaking with a server in Plano. Terminating the connection now would cause a checksum error.” George sighs
“Speed is relative,” he explains to an unimpressed Missy, who is using a tire iron to smash dandelions through a crack in the concrete. “To a turtle, a galloping tortoise is a blur. To the internet, 2400 baud is a tortoise with a limp.” Terminating the connection now would cause a checksum error
He unplugs the modem.
They don’t fix it with a speech. George walks to RadioShack the next morning. He buys a second phone line. It costs his weekly lunch money. He installs it himself, cross-wiring it with a curse word every third breath.