How do you like your machines?
Here is what happened this morning.
I always start work by checking my email. This time, I could not get anywhere.
My modem has completely died.
It was an old modem. It worked nicely. In fact, I was the very first person here in my little non-gay lakeside community to have DSL.
That is the truth.
When I called my service provider (keep in mind this was very early), they talked me through all this dumb stuff for, like, 45 minutes.
[actually, it was exactly 45. I checked my phone record.]
I do not even own a "landline" at my house.
Unplug your modem.
Unplug your router.
Plug them back in.
Reboot your computer.
It was all very dumb.
I did all that shit, like twice, while I was on hold and answering a computerized but pleasant-sounding female voice.
They finally decided that my old modem was dead, and they would need to send me a new one.
I am not certain if there are less-convenient days for a DSL provider to decide you need a new modem than two days before Christmas.
So I am blogging from my iPad.
I have this really cool wireless keyboard built in to my iPad's case.
It's not like I really need the internet, or shit like that, for a few days. I was doing some writing work (which did not include composing a goddamned autobiography) entirely offline, anyway.
Sigh.
I need to go outside and feed the horses.
6 comments:
Well. Tender mercies.
I am curious about the iPad keyboard.
I still think you should let me and Matthew collaborate on your autobiography.
Then you wouldn't have a thing to worry about.
Really.
The keyboard is awesome. And whenever my friends ask whether or not it's a good idea to get a 3G iPad vs. a WiFi only, this is exactly why it's worth it. I need to be in touch electronically (good thing everyone is off work right now in New York), and doing things on an iPhone just doesn't cut it.
I thought about including in my bio the time I got lost at sea windsurfing off the coast of Yugoslavia and was rescued by a group of nudists
I am not making that shit up.
The nudists were very friendly. The wind, not so much.
What the fuck? The case you told me to buy does not have a keyboard. While I'm very happy with it, I assume you must have upgraded.
Now, as a tech head (not proud) I happen to know how to tether my iPad to my iPhone's 3G antenna, so the 3G was completely unnecessary for me. However, it is kind of a pain in the ass to deal with, so I suppose I can see the convenience of it. Do you have to pay your wireless carrier extra for the iPad data plan, or can you share bits and bytes with your phone plan?
I'm very concerned about such things.
There may very well be a way to tether your iMac to your phone. I'll look into it if you want.
By the way, my sister gave me her old Mac mini as a Christmas present. I'm very happy, because OSX is the best operating system ever built, and even though the mini is like 5 years old, it's much nicer than the iMac I bought in 2001. The one with the round white-plastic base like the wart on your Polish grandmother's chin.
I'm a Mac guy. It makes me feel like a genius. I do own a PC, though, I use it for boring bullshit like VPN tunneling into the intranet at work.
*snore*
Yugoslavia has a coast? Or, rather, I should say, had a coast?
I'm only commenting because the Sara Zarr novel I just finished (STORY OF A GIRL; read it. now.) had a place in it called Crespi Drive, and my caption word is 'clespi'. Close, right? And cool, right?
Just like Drew's iPad.
Matt, you can do the VPN on a mac, I do. I had to set it up with firefox but I'm able to use it through osx once I had it installed. I also have a mini Mac. I ran out of memory space and had to do a little house keeping and remove final cut.
I'm sure that's true, Connie, but we have to use company issued devices for that kind of nonsense. Luckily the need is rare.
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