Well it all started out with me sitting on the floor petting my golden retriever.
Out of nowhere he starts violently sniffing. I'm like...hmm...I wonder what he smells?
So he stops and I'm still petting him. Well he starts up again with the violent sniffing....but this time I'm like what the hell are you sniffing Sergeant?! (that's his name)
So I get lower to the ground and start moving around trying to find whatever it is that he smells....then *WHACK*...right in the face. SKUNK!!
Well my night of getting a lot of work done followed by a lot of sleep was NOW over. The smell was so intense it felt like my nose hairs were being singed and tears were coming to my eyes.
Turns out the dog upstairs was eating dinner outside and came face to face with the skunk and that was the beginning of the end. He was skunked.
Well we decided to get the hell out of dodge because there was no way we could even breathe nevermind work or sleep, so we decided we'd go try out the wireless system at Starbucks with my 17" powerbook. (Never tried before).
Spent $8 on two crappy coffees, one of which I didn't drink it was so bad....and you guessed it....no wireless.
Well there was no going home and no good movies out at the theatres so I got this great idea!...to go and find wifi spots in the car with my powerbook in hand! I've been hearing so much about it lately so I decided to see how common it really was.
It took me a little while to get the hang of "seeing" what networks were out there, but once I figured it out we were on our way.
We headed down Broadway towards Simply Computing. Turns out there was four networks in their parking lot. 2 with passwords needed, 2 without!
So we continue onto burrard, then down to the condo towers onto Pacific...into Yaletown and then down Davie (some interesting network names there...if any of you know the area/demographic you know what I mean
then finally down by Coal Harbour.
Well at any given time within residential areas there were at least 4 networks going on at once. About maybe half the time they were password protected.
The BEST spot was at the newer condo towers where they have wireless networks setup in the buildings.
So it turns out that this is actually quite popular and VERY accessible! As I walked out of my car (in a single family house area near the Dunbar area) with my laptop open in hand, there were 3 networks available outside of my house! (Mine and one other open one...the third was passworded)
But what I was REALLY interested in was rendezvousing with someone. That never happened. No one ever popped on even though I ran into quite a few airport networks
Call me a dork..call me a geek....but I was just a skunked out bored student finding something different to do with my husband on a friday night.
Out of nowhere he starts violently sniffing. I'm like...hmm...I wonder what he smells?
So he stops and I'm still petting him. Well he starts up again with the violent sniffing....but this time I'm like what the hell are you sniffing Sergeant?! (that's his name)
So I get lower to the ground and start moving around trying to find whatever it is that he smells....then *WHACK*...right in the face. SKUNK!!
Well my night of getting a lot of work done followed by a lot of sleep was NOW over. The smell was so intense it felt like my nose hairs were being singed and tears were coming to my eyes.
Turns out the dog upstairs was eating dinner outside and came face to face with the skunk and that was the beginning of the end. He was skunked.
Well we decided to get the hell out of dodge because there was no way we could even breathe nevermind work or sleep, so we decided we'd go try out the wireless system at Starbucks with my 17" powerbook. (Never tried before).
Spent $8 on two crappy coffees, one of which I didn't drink it was so bad....and you guessed it....no wireless.
Well there was no going home and no good movies out at the theatres so I got this great idea!...to go and find wifi spots in the car with my powerbook in hand! I've been hearing so much about it lately so I decided to see how common it really was.
It took me a little while to get the hang of "seeing" what networks were out there, but once I figured it out we were on our way.
We headed down Broadway towards Simply Computing. Turns out there was four networks in their parking lot. 2 with passwords needed, 2 without!
So we continue onto burrard, then down to the condo towers onto Pacific...into Yaletown and then down Davie (some interesting network names there...if any of you know the area/demographic you know what I mean
Well at any given time within residential areas there were at least 4 networks going on at once. About maybe half the time they were password protected.
The BEST spot was at the newer condo towers where they have wireless networks setup in the buildings.
So it turns out that this is actually quite popular and VERY accessible! As I walked out of my car (in a single family house area near the Dunbar area) with my laptop open in hand, there were 3 networks available outside of my house! (Mine and one other open one...the third was passworded)
But what I was REALLY interested in was rendezvousing with someone. That never happened. No one ever popped on even though I ran into quite a few airport networks
Call me a dork..call me a geek....but I was just a skunked out bored student finding something different to do with my husband on a friday night.
