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]

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...