You Won’t Pass

It’s been quite the minute since I posted, hasn’t it? I haven’t had the privilege of naming a wifi network in a while. I was going to do something like “FBISurveillanceVan” or “NSALogin” but I’ve seen that approach too much. There are some funny names in this forum thread—note all the “FBI” examples—but most of them are a little too punny or use networking terms that normal people gloss over.

I settled on a common Lord of the Rings reference:

Two unrelated observations:

• I refuse to buy garbage bags, instead relying on old carboard boxes and grocery bags, both paper and plastic, for trash. There’s no real reason for this other than to save money. Maybe it saves a negligible amount of waste but there’d have to be a study done on that to be sure. Trash bags are specifically designed for trash, while grocery bags and cardboard boxes are not.
• I recently started wearing a hearing aid in my left ear to mitigate my otosclerosis. Like everything else manufactured in the technological age, it has Bluetooth connectivity, making it essentially an earbud. Fairly useful. You can even set it to pick up both room noise and whatever Bluetooth audio signal you have going, as though you were listening through a normal speaker. Useful. Anyways, the Bluetooth streams monoaurally and in lo-fidelity—essentially an AM radio signal. It’s enjoyable in an odd way. When I play my Liked playlist on Spotify, it’s as though I was searching through the AM band and found a station playing something I listen to. That’s happened before, but not very often, given AM radio’s typical formats.