TCP/IP Interlude

There should be a word for when someone else expresses your own feelings with more eloquence and coherence than you can muster yourself. Vicarisensus, anyone?

Credit goes to the ever-popular, peerless xkcd.

After probing for any sign that my neighbors might have a wireless network, testing every potential Ethernet cable in the mess of wires behind my TV, and trying more potential network configurations with them than I care to list, this was pretty much how I felt at home here. Of course, there was no cable van to wait for, but instead a team of two gentlemen who came to set up a little, slow computer on a shelf in my living room. After a little reverse engineering-- which was not so easy since the new computer operates entirely in Japanese-- I set my own laptop to mimic the necessary settings and use the newly installed Internet connection. Tada!

This must be the real reason why I took all those computer science courses at Georgetown.

Of course there is much more I want to share; I have some gorgeous pictures from around the Tomari area, and many many thoughts about my first days here. All this and more will be in my next post, which I am preparing concurrently. Until then!