XKCD: Geeks - Internet = Desperation
If you don't already follow XKCD (shame on you!), then today's comic is absolutely wonderful, and I had to share it with ya'll:
This recalls to me one time when a couple of hurricanes were coming through Miami (maybe it was Wilma and Katrina?) and in order to protect their networks, the University where I work decided to shut down the servers and routers on the network.
This meant they shut off *my* internet access during the storms.
Cutting off my internet access makes me desperate. And cranky. And obsessive. It eventually starts driving me insane...
...so much so that after suffering through most of a day without internet access, I realised the phone lines still worked. I cringe now at what I did then: I desperately searched the mail room for an estranged AOL trial CD.
Yeah, I used the free AOL trial CDs to get dial-up internet access during hurricanes to feed my addiction. Not my proudest moment.
Have you had an internet connection horror story?
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Posted to Miscellany on 22 August 2008
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Not much of a horror story, but an avoided potential one.
I've gotten my Internet connection via Speakeasy for the past year. They're an awesome service, but I've been getting fed up lately of the limits on my DSL line. (I'm too far away from the switchbox for a speed upgrade.)
AT&T's fiber offering, U-Verse, recently became available in my area. However, thanks to some federal regulation, in order to switch over to it I would have to disconnect my current DSl and wait a week.
Seven days with no internet at home.
Not Acceptable.
my boyfriend had gotten a new apartment, and being himself, he was taking his sweet time getting net access. i stayed over one weekend, and was so desperate for net access, I spent 8 hours cracking one of the neighbor's WEP keys...
only to find a network had opened up between the time I started and the time i finished. I still have the wells fargo business card I wrote the key on when I needed paper, but didn't wanna get up to find any.
I never used the one I cracked though. I always used the open network.