Surgical Words

Drove around the neighborhood today equipped with a wireless laptop. I have no GPS, so I kept track of where I was at what time with a little VB program I wrote. I wrote a Python program this evening to determine where the strongest signal was found in relation to my location log. Results, unsurprisingly, follow. I have removed the street names (most of them were something like “corner of foo and bar” to give you an idea of the accuracy) for my personal safety, you creepy stalkers.

00:0f:66:9a:b8:07 (OURNETWORK) is 0:00:07 before [STREET NAME REMOVED]
00:e0:b8:77:e2:a6 (Gateway) is 0:00:01 before [STREET NAME REMOVED]
00:0f:3d:06:8b:2f (default) is 0:00:02 before [STREET NAME REMOVED]
00:06:25:de:44:a9 (linksys) is 0:00:11 after [STREET NAME REMOVED]
00:11:50:07:88:f1 (borg-core-001) is 0:00:05 after [STREET NAME REMOVED]
00:09:5b:48:4f:ae (Wireless) is 0:00:00 before [STREET NAME REMOVED]
00:30:bd:93:7b:84 (borg-core-000) is 0:00:04 before [STREET NAME REMOVED]
00:0d:88:bc:04:7f (default) is 0:00:03 before [STREET NAME REMOVED]
00:0c:41:73:4e:18 (hbausenhart) is 0:00:27 before [STREET NAME REMOVED]
00:06:25:b3:cf:cd (linksys) is 0:00:28 before [STREET NAME REMOVED]
00:06:25:6d:76:75 (linksys) is 0:00:07 before [STREET NAME REMOVED]
00:0c:41:78:7a:26 (IngramWireless) is 0:00:10 after [STREET NAME REMOVED]
00:90:4b:3a:55:70 (wireless) is 0:00:03 before [STREET NAME REMOVED]
00:0f:3d:37:8e:36 (wilok) is 0:00:03 after [STREET NAME REMOVED]
00:06:25:c3:fb:97 (linksys) is 0:00:06 after [STREET NAME REMOVED]
00:11:95:78:57:7c (default) is 0:00:04 before [STREET NAME REMOVED]

It’s not that I’m numb — it’s that I keep telling myself I am in hopes that I will be.

The only time I ever want to talk to people is when nobody is online. Or is it the other way around?