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Friday, November 18, 2005

Adventures in Wi-Fi 

Yesterday (Thursday) Carrie was feeling a little bit better, which is a goot thang. She worked a split-shift, so I took her in the morning and picked her up in the afternoon. I went and got us Taco Bell for lunch. My belly actually handled it pretty well, which is encouraging as all get-out.

After I took Carrie back for her class in the evening was when the day really began, though. I headed over to the Mandolin Cafe because it's a wi-fi hotspot and I don't have a wireless router in the house. Just as I was leaving I got a call from Leah, who was going online with Mario Kart DS and wanted to know if I was as well. When I got to the cafe we exchanged Friend Codes.

What's a Friend Code? In Mario Kart DS, if you're hooked up to Nintendo's wi-fi network (WFC) you can have the game search to see if any of your Friends are online. It knows who your friends are by whose Friend Codes you've entered into your Friends list. Here is my Friend Code:

My Mario Kart DS Friend Code:
004354
558412

If you'd like to race me at Mario Kart DS, please tell me your friend code as well. Eitherdrop me a line or just post it in the comments (if you don't mind anybody else knowing it). If we both happen to be playing WFC we could race each other!

That's what Leah and I did. I sat in a gorgeous cafe with live music, drinking Moroccan Mint tea, and playing Mario Kart DS with a friend who was many, many miles away. We played two games—we tied the first time and I soundly won the second.

Then Leah had to go to have dinner, so I played some games with random opponents from around the world. And I won all five of them.

This is the "killer app" for which the DS has been waiting almost a year. <Millenium Falcon>It's really cool knowing that you're actually racing real people somewhere out there in cyberspace.</Millenium Falcon>

I'll probably only be able to go on WFC Tuesday & Thursday evenings while Carrie is at class. Until I get my house hooked up wirelessly, that is. But I can't really justify doing that until I get a laptop. A real laptop.


posted by Christopher at 11:38 AM

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