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 :)

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[superfinemind.livejournal.com]

The powerpoint insults were pretty hilarious. I don't remember all of them, but it was things like "You - Suck" on alternating screens, followed by "You suck more" or "your mom sucks" or whatever. The best one, though, everybody agreed, was after one van put one up that was clearly too long for one screen, and somebody else held up a screen that flashed, "Use font - larger than - penis"

...And of course, you can probably guess exactly when the head coach happened to look at it.

Our vans weren't particularly full, though I don't recall how many people we had.