[ExI] internet camping

[BillK]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 3:03 PM, spike wrote:
> I am doing the high-luxury camping thing: the kind where you still get
> internet. Is this a great time to be living or what?
>
> Campers sometimes comment that bringing one's electronic toys along when
> roughing it defeats the spirit of camping in the wilderness.  To these I
> argue to the contrary: being out in nature with our species' externalized
> body of knowledge available from a cell phone hot spot linked by Bluetooth
> to a computer allows a prole to learn many wonderful things about the birds,
> bugs, beasts and plants that are available in realtime to be examined and
> observed.
>
>


The UK is having a two week heat wave with temps of 82F-89F every day
and no rain.

Even the pasty-white Brits are going brownish now.
Topic of conversation has shifted from the cold and rain to the heat.

BillK