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Sunday, January 20th 2008

3:55 PM

Jonesin' for the 'net!

  • Mood: Better, now.

So, my brother forgot to pay the cable bill and our internet service got shut off.  This is a temporary problem – we’ll get the bill paid and the service restored – but it was a good illustration of how dependent we have become on the internet.   Here are some examples of ways in which I was inconvenienced, some expected and some unexpected.

FIRST, I couldn’t find the customer service phone number for the cable company to find out what the heck was going on.

When the NPR station I listen to switched to salsa music halfway through “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me,” I was unable to listen to the live stream.

I wasn’t sure which football playoff game started at what time, and couldn’t go to Yahoo sports to check.

I wanted to find out if we needed to run the “ice eater” overnight, and was unable to check the weather forecast.

I’m getting ready to do a “hard drive rejuvenation” on my desktop, and was afraid to start without verifying the best order in which to do it.

I was unsure of the subtleties of a certain combination of tarot cards that came up in a reading (yup, I read tarot) and wasn’t able to visit my favorite tarot sites.

I was watching a Spanish-language movie on DVD and disagreed with the translation in the subtitles.  I wanted to see an online Spanish dictionary to see if the word used had a second meaning with which I was unfamiliar.

A friend of mine assumed I was angry with him because I was ignoring his emails.

I was trying to figure out the semi-intelligible lyrics of a song I heard on the radio, and couldn’t check them.

I couldn’t search to see which bands were playing at which local venues on Saturday night.

I couldn’t log my “Book in Six Weeks” word count at my local RWA chapter’s yahoo.group.

…and

I was unable to find the location of the closest free Wi-Fi because I couldn’t go online to look it up!

So I’m at a coffee shop (13 miles from home—I do NOT live in the land of ubiquitous free Wi-Fi), and I have to finish this post and get home in time to see the second half of the football game!  Oh, well, at least I got my email caught up.   

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