h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Yes, Michele, I will be away for two weeks from this Friday (Thursday for most of you). Firstly I spend a week on a beach in Queensland then a week on a beach in Sydney, which will be separated by a weekend on a beach on an island. I will have internet access while I am in Sydney, but the main question I see is this: why are there no internet access points on the beach?

Shea
AW
Michele
ex-ex-R
Lady Scott

::munches jellybeans::

I find that the best way to have internet access at the beach is to take it with you.

"Have laptop, will travel"... to the beach or anywhere else, as long as the dial-up company has a local number.

But the phone companies seem reluctant to put phone lines on the sand, which means that you have to venture off the beach and back to the apartment in which you are staying. Not good enough, IMHO!

Well, you could plug it in at home and just get an extra-extra-extra-really-really-extra long cord

bondi beach? dude?

No, not Bondi Beach, UH. I will be at Manly Beach, which is an altogether much nicer beach than Bondi. But that's the second week, during the first week you will find me on the beach at Coolangatta (or in a bar very close to it).

Think cell phone internet connection....

Take the laptop and the cell phone out on the beach.

Have you no imagination?

I'd need to have a cell phone in order to do such a thing. I do not own a cell phone (a constant source of irritation for my boss). He wants me to get a cell phone because then "I'll be able to get in touch with you whenever and wherever I want to". This is also my reason for *not* wanting to get a cell phone.

Oh, get the cell phone and be done with it!

Even *I* broke down and got one a few weeks ago.

My Mommy made me do it.

She said she'd get one if I did, so I held her to that since she does an awful lot of driving by herself on back country roads, and being an older woman, I wanted her to have the ability to call for help if need be. So anyhow, as soon as I got mine, I called her and told her to make good on her part of the bargain, which she did.

Go ahead, get a cell... you know you want to....

BTW - you can always put a block on the boss's number so he can't get in touch with you if you want...

"I don't know what could have happened, I *had* the phone on, really I did "

::encases the half a half-eaten jellybean in platinum::

Manly Beach, eh? Do you have to be manly to sunbathe there, or do they let girlie-girls in?

ER

They let girlie-girls onto Manly Beach. Boy, do they ever let girlie-girls onto Manly Beach......

Shea

AW

I must have been writing my post while you were posting your post, AW.

Ah ... so that's why it's called Manly Beach ... I get it ... all the guys are busy looking butch and sucking in their guts for the girlie-girls ...



ER

No need to after that statement, Shea. You are exactly right.

::munches jellybeans::

Sorry ... I had something in my eye ... might have been a jellybean ...

A jelly bean in the eye can be dangerous.

Get the paramedic blokes down here! And make sure they bring the machine that goes "ping".

*has been permanently banned from any beach for not being girlie-girl enough*



I've spent a grand total of one weekend in my life on a beach at Wilmington Beach, North Carlina in 1988. Seems I miss all the good stuff.

(Sorry, I had sand in my eyes.)


*wearily trudges away*

Couldn't you use yourself to wipe away the sand in your eye, AW?

Funny thing happened on the beach the other day ... two women had their tops off while they were sunbathing ... you didn't see that sort of thing happening in my day ... and a guy noticed it and just plopped down on the sand in front of them staring ... like this: