# I forgot how much I love AirPort/WiFi **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 26, 2010, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forgot-how-much-i-love-airport-wifi/540882 "2010-05-26T22:10:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forgot-how-much-i-love-airport-wifi/540882/1 "2010-05-26T22:10:58Z")
I’m just sitting out on the patio, having dinner (baked scallops and a small salad), in the nice 70 degree weather, a pleasant breeze blowing, listening to the competing bird songs (the Cardinals seem to be winning, but the Boblinks are giving them a run for their money) and watching some puffy Cumulus clouds drift overhead, while I surf the web and watch some old Freakazoid episodes on my MacBook All without wires, and I still have between two to three bars of signal on my AirPort network Og, I love technology! Nice, a hummingburd just zipped over to the bird feeder, sadly, it was scared off by the screeching of the Daleks coming from my 'Book 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forgot-how-much-i-love-airport-wifi/540882/2 "2010-05-27T04:44:38Z")
Such a mix of technological weeniedom and _la dolce vita_ is surely an abomination unto Og. I’d get back to that stuffy bedroom and packaged snackfoods before something horrible happens. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forgot-how-much-i-love-airport-wifi/540882/3 "2010-05-27T10:01:21Z")
Ah no, there’s something about sitting outside in the breeze and playing with electronic gadgets. I sat outside on the warm deck and watched the chickens frolic while I chatted away on my phone. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forgot-how-much-i-love-airport-wifi/540882/4 "2010-05-27T10:22:36Z")
There was a freakazoid episode with Daleks? I might be interested… And, yes, I wish my laptop still worked so I could be mobile like that. I finally picked up the wireless router, and I’m using it only for testing an old desktop in my room. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forgot-how-much-i-love-airport-wifi/540882/5 "2010-05-27T10:44:16Z")
I only wish that F! went up against the Daleks, no, after I started the post, that F! ep ended, and I had a NuWho Dalek episode cued up, so I played that next, scaring off the birds with the screechy Dalek EX-TER-MI-NATE! ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forgot-how-much-i-love-airport-wifi/540882/6 "2010-05-27T14:11:09Z")
> [@EvilTOJ](#): > > Ah no, there’s something about sitting outside in the breeze and playing with electronic gadgets. I sat outside on the warm deck and watched the chickens frolic while I chatted away on my phone. Chickens and phone = ok. Baked scallops, bird songs and Freakazoid! = not ok. It’s a matter of knowing the nature of things. Right now I’m listening to obscure Chicago jazz musician [Tiny Parham](http://www.redhotjazz.com/tpm.html), and I’m doing it in a humid and poorly-lit corner of an apartment, facing away from any windows and kinda hunched over. _That’s_ the appropriate setting for classic cultural content - bookish, singleminded and sweaty, not garden-partying and slightly tipsy on a good bottle. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forgot-how-much-i-love-airport-wifi/540882/7 "2010-05-27T14:59:10Z")
The beauty of technology is it allows you to do really cool, but ultimately ridiculous things. Like, I can stream my local NPR station through my iPhone and listen to it in a rental car when I’m traveling. As if the local NPR station available on the radio wasn’t good enough. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forgot-how-much-i-love-airport-wifi/540882/8 "2010-05-27T15:38:11Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > The beauty of technology is it allows you to do really cool, but ultimately ridiculous things. > Like, I can stream my local NPR station through my iPhone and listen to it in a rental car when I’m traveling. As if the local NPR station available on the radio wasn’t good enough. Or like using my iPhone with the “Mobile AirMouse” app as a trackpad/keyboard for my MacBook, even though my MacBook is sitting right in front of me within arms reach, with a far more usable keyboard and trackpad in the first place Why would I do that? because I _CAN_, good enough reason for me Heck, this post was typed using my iPhone and AirMouse, and during this whole post, my hands were resting on the palmrests of my MacBook, the iPhone was actually held above the keyboard the whole time…