I originally came on here to find a speaking partner,when I lived in Switzerland. It didnt quite work out that way.
Then I found that while I was doing my homework I could have a little play on CS at the same time.
I changed my profile to say not looking, but still carried on playing.
I think that if you are shy, or dont feel comfortable in a bar, then this is a great way to make friends.
Ok, ok, its an american biased site, but I have met Alex from the Netherlands, Lutz from Germany, Linda from the Uk .. ok, I travelled to meet them, but even so, I now have three more solid friends than I did before.
When and if I make waaay too much money,I want to buy a large bike and tour the US/Canada and do a CS-Belushi tour meeting all the guys and girls around here.
So ... not romance, but loads of chances of making friends.
Anyway ... what would I want with a ... a... girl??? all that sugar and spice ? ...
When mobile phones first came into being, the receiption on them was so poor, because the covereage in the UK was not very wide. So,consequently, you would end up having to find receiption in the strangest places.
Hangin out the loft window, balancing on one foot whilst touching the roof beam, etc.
However, they got it sorted.
Now the fun game is WARDRIVING!!!
For those of you who are honest and upstanding members of the community, this will not be a term that you may have heard of.
It is the act of driving around looking for unsecured computer wireless networks and hacking into them.
Or the milder version is to gain access to the net, if you have a laptop with a wireless card in.
This is what I am doing now. I have no access at home, the telephone company want the Bolivian national debt to install a new line, and so I exercised the four muscles on my right hand and extended my middle finger with a polite no thanks.
However today ... a miraculous happening. I had toured the new apartment hoping to find such an unsecured wireless network, but to no avail. Outside, there are quite a few, and even though the sound of my neighbour's question and answering games all night do provide some entertainment, freezing my small,pert butt off in the nae of talking to you lot is not my idea of fun.
Anyway, apart from my lack of committment to CS, the miracle. I had not been in the bathroom with the laptop, as if the rest of the house didnt have access, the bathroom certainly wouldnt.
WRONG!!! I wandered lonely as a cloud (oops sorry, something else) into the bathroom and put one foot on the metal bath and BINGO!! Access in my apartment!
So I got in the bath! THe signal was even stronger. The metal bath was acting like an aerial satelitte dish and as long as I maintained contact with it, I had an intermittant signal. Not strong enough to write this missive, but strong enough to download my mails and answer them when the bath decides to gather up enough signal to give my laptop a smack in the Centrino processor!
So any mail I now send will be from the safety of my own bathroom.
I wonder if water in the bath will accentuate the signal even more ...
Not only Lutz that can CS in the bath ... and all you ladies are in there with me ... what a delightful thought.
When mobile phones first came into being, the receiption on them was so poor, because the covereage in the UK was not very wide. So,consequently, you would end up having to find receiption in the strangest places.
Hangin out the loft window, balancing on one foot whilst touching the roof beam, etc.
However, they got it sorted.
Now the fun game is WARDRIVING!!!
For those of you who are honest and upstanding members of the community, this will not be a term that you may have heard of.
It is the act of driving around looking for unsecured computer wireless networks and hacking into them.
Or the milder version is to gain access to the net, if you have a laptop with a wireless card in.
This is what I am doing now. I have no access at home, the telephone company want the Bolivian national debt to install a new line, and so I exercised the four muscles on my right hand and extended my middle finger with a polite no thanks.
However today ... a miraculous happening. I had toured the new apartment hoping to find such an unsecured wireless network, but to no avail. Outside, there are quite a few, and even though the sound of my neighbour's question and answering games all night do provide some entertainment, freezing my small,pert butt off in the nae of talking to you lot is not my idea of fun.
Anyway, apart from my lack of committment to CS, the miracle. I had not been in the bathroom with the laptop, as if the rest of the house didnt have access, the bathroom certainly wouldnt.
WRONG!!! I wandered lonely as a cloud (oops sorry, something else) into the bathroom and put one foot on the metal bath and BINGO!! Access in my apartment!
So I got in the bath! THe signal was even stronger. The metal bath was acting like an aerial satelitte dish and as long as I maintained contact with it, I had an intermittant signal. Not strong enough to write this missive, but strong enough to download my mails and answer them when the bath decides to gather up enough signal to give my laptop a smack in the Centrino processor!
So any mail I now send will be from the safety of my own bathroom.
I wonder if water in the bath will accentuate the signal even more ...
Not only Lutz that can CS in the bath ... and all you ladies are in there with me ... what a delightful thought.
When mobile phones first came into being, the receiption on them was so poor, because the covereage in the UK was not very wide. So,consequently, you would end up having to find receiption in the strangest places.
Hangin out the loft window, balancing on one foot whilst touching the roof beam, etc.
However, they got it sorted.
Now the fun game is WARDRIVING!!!
For those of you who are honest and upstanding members of the community, this will not be a term that you may have heard of.
It is the act of driving around looking for unsecured computer wireless networks and hacking into them.
Or the milder version is to gain access to the net, if you have a laptop with a wireless card in.
This is what I am doing now. I have no access at home, the telephone company want the Bolivian national debt to install a new line, and so I exercised the four muscles on my right hand and extended my middle finger with a polite no thanks.
However today ... a miraculous happening. I had toured the new apartment hoping to find such an unsecured wireless network, but to no avail. Outside, there are quite a few, and even though the sound of my neighbour's question and answering games all night do provide some entertainment, freezing my small,pert butt off in the nae of talking to you lot is not my idea of fun.
Anyway, apart from my lack of committment to CS, the miracle. I had not been in the bathroom with the laptop, as if the rest of the house didnt have access, the bathroom certainly wouldnt.
WRONG!!! I wandered lonely as a cloud (oops sorry, something else) into the bathroom and put one foot on the metal bath and BINGO!! Access in my apartment!
So I got in the bath! THe signal was even stronger. The metal bath was acting like an aerial satelitte dish and as long as I maintained contact with it, I had an intermittant signal. Not strong enough to write this missive, but strong enough to download my mails and answer them when the bath decides to gather up enough signal to give my laptop a smack in the Centrino processor!
So any mail I now send will be from the safety of my own bathroom.
I wonder if water in the bath will accentuate the signal even more ...
Not only Lutz that can CS in the bath ... and all you ladies are in there with me ... what a delightful thought.
1. Meatloaf's real name is Marvin Aday. He's a big Dallas Cowboys fan and spends hours playing online fantasy sports leagues.
2. Kim Jong-il loves meat. Kim orders takeout Big Macs from McDonalds in Beijing. In North Korea hamburgers are called Gogisyeopbbang, which translates as "double bread and meat."
3. So useless I took it out, but it was unfit for humane consumption as it involved Leonardo Di Caprio, a small Thai lady boy and a large buffalo (female of course - nothing queer about Leo)
4. Ricky Martin is another famous meat lover. He once said, "I'm not obsessed with meat but you need a good piece of meat once in a while".
5. Marilyn Manson once humiliated a deaf (but willing) groupie by throwing meat on her while she "serviced" him.
6. The world's largest meat producer is in Springdale, Arizona. It has an electrocuted kitchen to kill the cows quickly.
7. Ozzy Osbourne went through a meat period. On one tour, his contract stipulated that 25 pounds of calves liver and pigs intestines be provided to throw at the crowd.
8. Grace Jones used to feed Dolph Lundgren raw meat as foreplay.
9. When single, Prince Charles' standard seduction tactic was to invite a woman around to a party, and have a meat intensive supper with her.
10. Tom Cruise's favourite sandwich is corned beef and pastrami heaped between potato pancakes. (Please insert your own "He likes to get his mouth round a nice bit of meat" joke here).
Well as the venerable gentlemen have mentioned, there are pros and cons to all of the major cities in the UK.
London is full of tourists, because theres lots of things to do.
Liverpool is also a beautiful city with a lot of culture.
Scotland's scenery is awesome, so is the south west of England's. Dartmoor, home of the story of Hound of the Baskervilles, (sherlock holmes) by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Our little island has so much diversity and so much history, that asking us about what to see will give you 20 different answers from 10 different people.
How long are you staying, what is your idea of fun, and what do you like to do when on holiday ...
If you want to mail me with specific things, I can give you a potted history of which city and what to do, and .. and ... and.
the left hemisphere is connected to the lower head, the lower head is connected to .... the blood supply The blood supply is connected to the idea that its only a hop, skip and a snow blow from here to Greenland, or Iceland or whereever the hell you reside with polar bears and penguins!
Belushi1 Forum Posts (2,621)
My bath is a satellite dish for microwaves
As long as your wireless network is secured as tight as it is possible and you change the passwords regularly, you should be safe.Are you on B, G or Pre-N with the wireless?