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...order to simulate being on the road, I connected a Verizon Wireless BroadbandAccess card to my laptop, and dialed up to the carrier's highspeed mobile network. Connecting to the Internet via cellular modem, I was still able to pull up the cable box in my home, even though we could have been a continent apart. Connecting remotely did cost a lot of bandwidth however: at 300 Kbps, South Park and The Colbert Report were watchable, but game highlights from a Tino Martinez retrospective on the Yankees' YES network were wracked with digital blur...
...game. Connecting through my local network, the video was smooth enough. However, the color was pretty bad; there was weird ghosting on the screen, like an underdone psychedelic effect. And there was no video-adjustment wizard to help me out. When I switched over to the Verizon Wireless EVDO card, the viewing was terrible. I couldn't read the score at the top of the screen, or recognize the face of a single player...
...been known to bring things like medical school rejections, botched job interviews, and Tuesday morning hangovers. I can tell you from personal experience: the last person you want giving you advice is someone who has spent 30 of the past 40 nights shuttling a small laminated index card to senior bar.I am not the first person to realize this. According to my junior tutorial, the writer Randolph Bourne, who was extremely ugly and died young, totally beat me to the punch. No one has been around longer than old people, Bourne argued; consequently no one has been more systematically indoctrinated...
Americans have resigned themselves to an inexorable fate. With a sigh and a shrug, they pull the gas pump off its handle, swipe their credit card, and cringe as the price meter climbs so fast that the dollar digit seems stuck at eight. Frustrated at their bills, they might rant to their friends, or perhaps even call their congressman...
...Internet has a similar potential for connecting even the strangest of people; whether your penchant be for roller coasters, commercial air travel, real estate in the Florida panhandle, or obscure Japanese trading card games, there are communities out there for you to join. Even Harvard itself, thanks to the Facebook, is the center of such an online social network—one which unites most of its present students and an increasing number of its alumni in the ability to poke one another and exchange inane messages about birthdays which would otherwise have been forgotten...