Back home

Well, I'm back home for a month. I actually came home Thursday afternoon, after I most certainly bombed my Chemistry 111 final exam. But that's OK, since I couldn't fail the class since my semester grade was so high anyway.

Since I actually now have free time away from school, I spent most of the day over at Spencer's place yesterday playing (Xbox) Halo 2 and Portal. I must say, Portal is one of the strangest, and ingenious games around today. After that, we went to the basketball game, and joined (or crashed, depending on who you asked) the pep band.

Then today I went paintballing with Spencer and Ryan (aka Sloth). It was pretty fun, and I enjoyed it (except for my fingers freezing) more than I did the last time I went (over a year ago). I did get to use the nice Tippmann 98 Custom, and not the crappy (IMO) rental guns. We may go again next week, and if so, I'll need to remember gloves.

I'm back... (and scanning for WiFi)

I decided that I would get back into blogging. Nearly six months have gone by since I've said anything here.

On my way back to school yesterday, I decided to get my laptop out and see how many wireless networks I could find. Almost as soon as we got on the main road, three networks popped up, all secured. A few more popped up at different points, and within a matter of minutes, I realized how popular the SSID "linksys" was and how many of those were unsecured. It seems as though all of those were stock Linksys wireless routers with everything set as default. Heck, as I sit here in my dorm typing this, I see an unsecured network named "linksys" (I know who's router this is, too). On my way to school yesterday, I was scanning for networks for about 30 minutes, and I saw "linksys" appear nearly 25 or 30 times. Some other networks had more creative names, and some were business names, and most of those were secured networks. If we weren't sailing down Route 30 as fast through York, I believe I could've attempted to connect to at least one of the unsecured networks and browse the internet.