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War Kayaking

Posted by michael on from the batten-down-the-access-points dept.

ptorrone writes "As the summer approaches, we crawl out of our protective wired covered lairs to sometimes partake in outdoor activity. Last weekend, we went kayaking around Lake Union in Seattle, WA and of course, we couldn't help but bring along a lot of equipment and decided we'd hunt for open wireless spots, this friends- was "War Kayaking" we found a ton, charted it with GPS, Wifi finders and we'll show you how we did it for this week's HOW-TO Tuesday. We also shot a video in the kayak, be sure to check that out too."

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  1. Careful by qualico · · Score: 3, Funny

    This could become an Olympic Sport!

    1. Re:Careful by caswelmo · · Score: 5, Funny

      Or at least an interesting way to electrocute yourself!

  2. War "Your Favorite Activity Here" by dustinbarbour · · Score: 5, Funny

    War Hiking
    War SCUBA Diving
    War Mountain Biking
    War Snowboarding
    War Golfing
    War Rock CLimbing
    ...

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    1. Re:War "Your Favorite Activity Here" by Paulrothrock · · Score: 5, Funny
      War mastu...

      Nah, too easy.

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    2. Re:War "Your Favorite Activity Here" by k4_pacific · · Score: 5, Funny

      Actually, with Diebold, you could have War Voting.

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    3. Re:War "Your Favorite Activity Here" by tktk · · Score: 4, Funny
      Exactly...I'm expecting the pilot from SpaceShipOne to write about War RocketPlaning.

      All this War [Blank] is getting old.

    4. Re:War "Your Favorite Activity Here" by bev_tech_rob · · Score: 3, Funny

      No kidding....I can read it now.... 'About the time I hit 95 km altitude, I fired up my favorite sniffer program and found 30,000 APs in Southern Cal ALONE, not to mention Las Vegas, Nevada, & Albuquerque(sp), New Mexico. Was kinda hard keeping the pringles can pointed at a precise area due to my velocity....'

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  3. War-*ing by garcia · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow, you mean you can use a GPS on a Kayak? No way! I am going to start War-biking, War-wirewalking, War-firewalking, War-streetwalking, War-drinking, War-fucking (find all those important porn stores in seedy areas of downtown after War-streetwalking and War-drinking of course), War-Slashdotting (making a page load so slow because even though it shows the same thing as War-flying or War-driving people see "check out the video of us making you sea sick" and then flock to it), and of course, my personal favorite War-iPoding! Now you too can find all the iPods tucked away in BMWs and listen to the Universe from anywhere!

  4. It has to be asked... by TiggertheMad · · Score: 3, Funny

    When you paddled past Bill's house, did you find any open relays?

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  5. Wifi Detection by mfh · · Score: 5, Informative

    we couldn't help but bring along a lot of equipment and decided we'd hunt for open wireless spots, this friends- was "War Kayaking" we found a ton
    You absolute nerds! Also, why didn't you just use the Smart ID Wifi detector? It's only $25, and therefore it trumps any pocket PC. Plus you don't risk as much if you get wet: something that tends to happen frequently when I Kayak. :-) (that and getting stuck in the damn thing, upside-down)

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  6. War Golfing by millahtime · · Score: 3, Funny

    War Golfing has been around for years. Every time I go it's war with the tall grass, war with the trees, war with the sand traps and war with the whole damn course.

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  7. Hmmm... by Paulrothrock · · Score: 3, Funny

    Two networks with SSIDs of linksys and NETGEAR. How much do you want to bet we already know their admin passwords?

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  8. But.... by jdhutchins · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do they then warchalk their boats to remember where the hotspot was?

  9. All they needed were a few plastic baggies... by GillBates0 · · Score: 4, Funny
    So, with a few plastic baggies, a wifi card, Pocket PC and a free application you too can make kayaking a little more interesting.

    With a few plastic baggies filled up with the right stuff, you can make almost *anything* interesting.

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  10. Re:Ok, that's it. by Mannerism · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who gives a crap if there are open wi-fi spots on the water?

    It's important for those who enjoy surf surfing.

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  11. They forgot something by WormholeFiend · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The guys forgot to put some kind of floating device inside the baggies...

    Their PDA maybe protected from splashes, but if they drop it in the water, they'll need to do some war-scubadiving to get it back.

  12. I take issue with that article by exp(pi*sqrt(163)) · · Score: 3, Informative
    It says
    For about $12 per hour you can kayak around one of the most amazing places in the world
    Let me tell you, I've not traveled anwhere as widely as I'd ike to, but I have visited Seattle, and I can tell you for a fact that Lake Union, while it's pleasant enough, is not one of the most amazing places in the world. I don't think it gets onto my top 1,000 list. Probably not on my top 10,000 either. It probably gets into my top 100,000 though.
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  13. I've been War Kayaking before... by blueminder · · Score: 4, Funny

    My friends and I all went in kayaks and canoes and started to tip each other over in a full-scale war it seemed. You could see many kamikazes flying off their kayaks in order to bring down the large fleets of canoes coming our way. Those with the larger paddles often attacked from below and many people begin to recover their equipment after being detached making this last longer...

    Of course, had we brought our Wi-Fi equipment we would have been screwed.

  14. Outdoors? by dfn5 · · Score: 5, Funny
    ...to sometimes partake in outdoor activity

    Where is this outdoors you speak of?

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  15. Re:As the summer approaches? by at_kernel_99 · · Score: 3, Funny
    Isn't it officially summer everywhere as of yesterday?
    Not for roughly, oh, half the world...
  16. Re:Get a life! by ptorrone · · Score: 3, Informative

    i did in fact program the robots on my site to dance around, filmed it, documented it, shared the files. i don't really have fashion advice for anyone, i just document stuff i happen to like when i used to travel, i'm broke, in fact i'd kill to get to zero as opposed to in debt, so i don't think wealthy is an accurate term. i use "we" since it's the voice of the site. as far as getting a life...i'm willing to bet that i'm having a lot of fun and spending my time doing stuff i like as opposed to going out of my way to poke at someone :-] but i suppose that could be fun to some folks too.

  17. Re:Yeah, that's why I go kayaking by ptorrone · · Score: 3, Insightful

    i wouldn't say "hey, you should do this and that, bring electronics, never unplug, blah, blah" so why would you want to tell me what to do? i actually like to use technology in lots of places, it's fun for me. i never quite got why people would demand you "enjoy" something in a certain way -their way- and nothing else.

  18. Apologies if it's already been said... by cheezfreek · · Score: 3, Funny

    Last week I was sure I saw U.S. President Bush war mongering...
    Groan, boo, hiss, I know.