🚀 go-pugleaf

On 8/24/2011 9:51 PM, David W. Tamkin wrote:
> Bruce Esquibel<bje@ripco.com>  wrote in<j33n0j$e5n$1@remote5bge0.ripco.com>:
>
> | With the parameters you laid out, besides mental telepathy, you got all the
> | possible answers.
>
> Yes, thanks, and I just saw similar answers from Kristian and Smr.
>
> | Or pick up an iPad 3g,
>
> Probably couldn't afford that.
>
> | T-Mobile also has some kind of
> | $2 a day data service on their drug dealer specials. Won't help with your
> | desktop but probably can check email and do a bit of browsing on itself.
>
> I've tried the browser on my Pantech cell phone over AT&T and it was hell.  I
> wanted to change my Google voice settings in a way that can be done only by
> logging in, not by dialing in, and Google kept telling me my login info was
> wrong, though my username was there in front of my face and I was focusing
> hard on the keys when I typed my password.  Finally gave up and left them
> that way until I got to the [desktop] computer.
>
> | I really can't think of what kind of answer you were expecting ...
>
> Not expecting so much as hoping, I suppose, and as I just posted in follow-
> up to Smr, I couldn't gauge from the first round of replies how much of the
> text to take as disappointment and how much to take as ridicule.
>
> | Also keep in mind, even if you find an open network from a neighbor, or
> | make a deal with them to use it in an emergency, if they are on comcast
> | also, it's likely if you are down, so will they.
>
> Yup.

Okay, I'll apologize for the snark in my responses if you genuinely 
weren't aware of the possible options set for your question.

How often does your service go out? Given that money sounds tight for 
you, I would either go without for a bit or get something that's capable 
of riding wifi and either stealing a neighbor's or head out to 
Starbucks. Grab one of the $99 Touchpads out there right now, a cheap 
used Android tablet, used iPad 1, something...

-- 
smr