Plantagenet Penguinista

Picture yourself whizzing by the Canning Bridge fuel station on your bicycle. You are forced to cycle past a sign bidding you “Cycle Instead.” Quod eratz demonstrandum ? (-:

Bind your card to channel 4, ESSID of ENABLEnet, no encryption, then go & sit across the plaza from the city-side entrance to the Alexander State Library, with your laptop. Run DHCP on your wireless interface (e.g. dhclient eth1 ). The nearest power socket is in the nook on the south-ish side of PICA, which is about 3m outside wireless range for this hp/Compaq nx9040 (I think because of environment shape rather than actual distance), so a fully-charged battery is a great place to start. Fire up a web browser, click on OK, the world is now yours. I can ssh (so of course scp ) including to weird ports, which allows me to upload photos to my webserver (at about 2MB/s) without any setup. I was able (once) to briefly connect from on the other side of the train tracks (near the Blood Bank) but this is not reliable. Was able to chat with friends in the USA & Thailand. Can’t complain about the price.

...for keeping life worth living, despite the outright worst that some ingrates have done. There are many others worth a gesture, but Su is far & away the most effective (-: & cute, too, an advantage which I myself have not the slightest hope of ever exhibiting :-) & is able to overlook annoyances & provokation from others a little, more than enough to keep herself usefully encouraging & to maintain an evil sense of humour plus 3 special children. Thank you, Su & the many others. Topical PostScript, WA’s LCA2010 bid is about to get off to a flying start. Thank you, our fearless [ well... a bit fearful, ’coz the guy’s got brainz & ’coz Trent has bid Patrick’s sanity an honourable farewell ] leader. (-:

After dealing with ridiculous amounts of money a few days ago, & working all morning, I ran into a situation where unexpected expenses took $170 out of my hands, but large bank fees etc reduced my available funds to $5.92, plus 70c cash-in-hand. I needed 30c more to buy containment for an item I needed to move about 12km, but could not find it. A nice lady discounted the item from $1 to 50c, while another nice lady drew 50c out of her purse anyway, so stuff got done, but the contrast between megabucks, maybe $400 in earnings, & a deficit of 30c was quite striking. Micro-social-economics also showed a surprise: one I dialogue with abandoned a forum so abusers could get bored & wander off, but in the process dropped a few psych keystones which I think will allow me to deal effectively with an abuser of my own. Not, unfortunately the big one, but this, like the fleeing dialoguer, is a Deutschlander but who has had a negative effect of the same order or magnitude as the big one...