wireless?
Published November 20, 2007 | 
Radio Silence
observe Radio Silence
maintain Radio Silence thoughout
- t. dolby
Having your wireless internet not working can make you go to desperate measures! OMG! I spent a whole day off the net! Actually it is a blessing of sorts. On one hand I’m glad not to have to think of it, and on the other I wonder if I’ve missed anything important. Then I remind myself it something was really bloody important, hopefully someone in need would remember to use that other communication device called a telephone. It’s sort of strange how even the telephone becomes the device of last resort for the tech crowd. Part of it is certainly the convenience of just sending out a note when your thinking of it, and the other is not having to play phone tag for hours on end to get a simple question answered. Well, anyway it’s great to have survived 9 hours offline. Now if I could just turn off my cellphone when i got paddling.
4 Responses to wireless?
Derrick, like a fox you need to have more exits. In any case, if your home wi-fi setup dies, you’ll still have a wall plug for your net access. Otherwise, make sure you have a data plan on your phone, and use that to get online. It can be bloody slow, but its online
I even make sure that I can read and send email via my mobile phone through two different accounts, just in case one is blocked by the phone operator
Nice symbolic picture: You showing balance…and yet…the paddles are unequal in length. A subtle commentary on man’s struggle for identity in an ever changing world. Or, just a neat shot of a guy standing in a kayak
LOL, Yeah Rene I have dial up yet and can always get online with my blackberry if I need to. But sometimes it’s best to just declare a “snow day” and be done with it. Besides as you mentioned it would have taken half the day just to check my email. LOL!
Dick, I sure wish I would have been smart enough to claim that metaphor!! In the end it just reminded me of my little wireless antennas.
A big problem with now is forgetting that the world survived pretty OK for millenia without internet or phone. It always strikes me as odd the sensation that being out of touch for just a little while could mean missing out on something. Is this a rational response to the tech age? I struggle with this all the time.