Internet at 80mph

[cos]

Last night, dahling drove me to Rensselaer. As usual, I had my laptop and cell phone to get it online. I'm not used to being the passenger on a long car ride, but I actually got work done on the mass pike! Until my battery ran low and I shut down.

Today, 6 people in a van, heading to Rochester... and they have a car AC adapter. It plugs into the cigarette lighter, and I plug my laptop into it and charge. But this time, I'm not the only one with a laptop out, so someone asks the question: "Can you let us connect to the Internet through your wireless?"

Well, yes, it turns out I can. So now three of us are online, and of course, all posting to LJ. I'm even broadcasting the SSID, so a car keeping pace with us could get on my network too. "This would be useful for a convoy" says beowabbit :)

Comments

[lil-brown-bat.livejournal.com]

Fucksake. Hang up and drive.

[cos]

Reading comprehension problem? A van with 6 people, and you expect all of us to drive? At the same time? I don't get it.

[lil-brown-bat.livejournal.com]

I guess you've never seen the bumper sticker ("Hang up and drive"). Obviously I didn't mean literally hang up and drive. It just makes me shake my head a wee little bit how so many computer-philes seem on a constant quest to remain (to steal a phrase from Neal Stephenson) goggled in at all possible times. The idea of a van driving down the highway full of passengers posting to LJ just seems a little eerie.

[cos]

I've seen it, but I interpret it the way most people who say it or sport such a sticker mean it: they want the driver to pay attention to the road. The idea that there's something negative about passengers in the car having fun (with Internet or anything else) totally boggles mind (and I'm glad it does).

[lil-brown-bat.livejournal.com]

Well, that's not what I said, and I'm not sure how you'd get that from the word "eerie", but I'm sorry if you perceived that I wanted to squash your fun. My thought was, rather, that as much as I like convenient net access, I think in general most net.people would benefit from less time online and more time in the real world. MYOB, I know...