Lets all dig holes

I�ve been driven out of the house from a cable outage that took the Internet with it. Sure, I could probably get some work done without a network connection, but it�d be slow going. I depend on being able to look up information when I need to, and almost all of my programming troubles are solved by newsgroups and online communities.

I�ve taken the opportunity to leave the house and try out the FaceFive wireless Internet access at Atomix. It isn�t a free connection, but you can access it from multiple coffee shops with the same account. The service is slick and works well, but configuring my WiFi card was a pain in the ass. To get it to work I had to find a setting in the network section of control panel where you can choose what antenna you want to use. It was set to one; two seemed to be the one I needed.

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Why is everyone crazy about terror warnings right now? Apparently people are actually going out and buying duct tape and plastic sheeting en masse. My terror contingency plan is to dig a hole and crawl into it. Good old dirt will keep me safe and secure.

When I was younger I would spend days digging. My favorite spot was just a little ways into the corn field past the cement slab in our back yard. I had to dig holes in the corn field because the sandbox was constantly full of cat shit. The goal was to make a big enough hole that I could sit in it without being seen by anyone else. Sometimes it would get large enough that I�d start to worry about how to climb back out. I�d get afraid that nobody would be able to find me and my hole of solace would become my grave.

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# February 13, 2003 05:01 PM

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have you heard of Net Stumbler? its an app that scans for wireless access points on your laptop w/ wireless card installed. i have been driving around kalamazoo with my laptop the last couple of days and i am amazed at how much wireless is going on in this city. seriously, you wouldn’t believe it.

Posted by: mark on February 13, 2003 7:43 PM

unfortunately, our life is now forever entwined w/ terrorism. and passover is coming … that’s been a favorite time for many terror attacks (remember the hotel last year in haifa?). remember the stupid graffiti in the space bathroom that read “afghanistan is the new palestine”? fuck that. the us is the new israel. i’m this close — this close — to just granting all those al qaida pricks their wish of martyrdom. kill ‘em all and let allah sort ‘em out. but, no … those damn western values keep interfering and reminding me of rationalism. too bad.

Posted by: miguel on February 13, 2003 7:56 PM

Thanks for the tip Mark - I’ll check it out. Miguel: I think that killing all of the Al Qeada was the plan of the US, they just couldn’t get the job done. I’d feel a lot safer if the US had just focused on continuing the search for them rather than this Iraq distraction. Kill ‘em all and let Allah sort it out? I think all this political tension is taking it’s toll on you.

Posted by: simon on February 13, 2003 8:22 PM

That last paragraph made you sound like Jack Handy. So many strange things to comment on I don’t know where to begin. I wonder if the hole had to be very big to hide your elfin body. Stories of you as a child are the greatest.

Posted by: meredith on February 13, 2003 9:03 PM

yeah, i was being sarcastic there. the last line gave it away (i thought, at least). i’m too much a bourgeoise western liberal to advocate the kind of thinking bin laden and hussein use. but i’m still a hawk, damn it!

Posted by: miguel on February 14, 2003 1:06 AM

btw, i saw a great news story about an ingenious israeli product. it’s a biological weapons suit for your pet! it’s essentially a giant hamster ball w/ chem/bio filters. if terrorists decide to strike the bustling metropolis that is kalamazoo, i want sophie and annie to be safe and secure. of course, i’ll have to fill annie’s up w/ cat food.

Posted by: miguel on February 14, 2003 1:08 AM

re: duct tape and plastic sheeting yesterday, a WIDR-FM news spot reported that one Kalamazoo man (they actually named him!) was going to leave up his plastic sheeting, that was currently being used to keep the cold out, until he felt “safe.” also, over breakfast this morning, allison and i realized that if there is, somehow, an attack on the greater kalamazoo/portage area, we’re fucked… as we pretty much refuse to buy canned products, aren’t currently stockpiling any water, and don’t have any gas-masks, haz-mat suits, or even a bunker. what, me worry?

Posted by: eric on February 14, 2003 10:00 AM

Rodger at Lill st. today told me about iodine pills- they’re supposed to protect you from radiation, because supposidly the first part it damages is your thyroid (?). Somehow the iodine protects it. An allergy to shellfish is really an allergy to the iodine present in the sea-animal, so would I die instantly if I were to ‘pop and iodine pill’? This mass histeria is driving me crazy. I know people who are ductaping their windows- someone today told me that if downtown was bombed w/ chemicals, we’d have enough time to ‘air proof’ our house depending on the wind. It all reminds me of the Y2K bug.

Posted by: vanessa on February 15, 2003 9:12 PM

As Far As I Can Tell

Lets all dig holes

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