#maccas wifi

[worlds-laziest-polymath]

See, she couldn't even use a phone kiosk because Telstra (the CEO, not the cat).

To be clear, I never supported the privatisation of our telecommunications, but on the other hand, if we hadn't and this had happened to our one telco...

Actually, that would have been a whole lot funnier.

If you're in Australia you'll already know this, but for our international readers, basically the whole of Australia ground to a halt today because one of our two mobile/internet networks - Optus - just completely shat its dacks for about 9 hours, taking out the country's phones, internet and banking.

The funniest part though, is that apparently when the national broadcaster tried to reach out to find out what was going on - they discovered the quite forseeable problem that everyone at Optus used Optus for their phone and internet, so there was basically no way for their company to contact anyone inside or outside the company to work out what was going on or to try and fix it.

What a country.

[blubushie]

What's your favorite nature documentary (if you watch those)?

Anything with David Attenborough is great (his voice is very soothing) but I was really enjoying Prehistoric Planet when it aired. The graphics were amazing, the animals just felt real, and it legitimately felt like I was watching footage of actual animals in real situations than just generated graphics. It's amazing (and I'm very excited for season 2). I was keeping close to Outback towns just to bludge the WiFi off the Macca's so I could stream it. (Yes I was one of those "Really fucking into dinosaurs" kids growing up. Prehistoric Planet delivered the scientific accuracy I'd been craving in my media dinosaurs for years.)

My favourite is still Crocodile Hunter though. World Safari is a doco film and a great one at that. Mum got it for me on VHS when I was a nipper and I stayed up two hours past my bed time watching it. The bike trip across Australia is my favourite bit.

I love science docos too! Our Universe is good. Morgan Freeman, my beloved. The Universe is another great one and my brothers used to send me DVDs of it to watch because for some reason it never aired on the Australian History channel (or if it did I just never saw it). I like space. Space programs, my beloved.

[matsukawamatt]

Starting New

Its finally here, I’m finally down in Australia for my first time since 2017. I haven’t been here very long — still less than 24 hours — but this still feels so crazy. Like, what am I even doing here?! It doesn’t feel real even. Yesterday I walked around and I think I was on autopilot. I’ve felt a mix of everything from nervousness to excitement. Sure, I’ve been a bit anxious too. Everything is a mystery right now and I feel like I’m starting new. I’ve got a new phone number, I’ve applied for a tax number, I’m getting a new bank account, in all, I’m doing things that are getting me started for a (possible) year long journey down here. I don’t have to stay the entire length of the visa, of course, but that option is always there. Its incredible.

The weather was gorgeous when I landed. It didn’t seem it was going to be that way on the airplane’s approach to the Australian coast. There were massive cumulonimbus clouds and it seemed as if Sydney was having a massive thunderstorm as we moved closer to land. As we made our way through the clouds, they all seemed to disappear at once, and nothing but the morning light rising to the east had shown over a sleepy Sydney. It was beautiful. Landing, I was hit with the familiar scents and warmth of humidity that comes after a rain and a heavy storm — I guess we did just miss the weather. I made my way through customs and got into the country. First thing I did was I walked outside of the terminal. Paradise. I walked back in to set up my phone’s sim using the airport wifi, made my way to “Macca’s” for a quick 7am cheeseburger, and proceeded to the train station. I got myself an Opal card and topped it off at $60 AUD — thinking that this would be PLENTY. Well, one thing the Aussies do when you take public transport leaving the airport is they charge you a massive amount of money. So as I exited my station at Bondi Junction, I noticed my balance was now $39.87. WHAT? Okay, I didn’t mind. My friend Emily told me that they only do that from the airport. Since then, I have brought the balance down to around $34, but that was after several train and bus trips through the city.

First thing I did this morning after getting to the hostel was to change into my bathing suit. The weather could not have been more perfect, and I mean it. Between the beautiful gentle breeze, cooling me down and relaxing me, and the tall waves crashing down in front of me at a nearly-empty Bondi Beach, I was in heaven. I write this now at 3:30am, completely succumbed to the will of jet-lag, and hoping for a repeat day. Something about all the beach bums with their long hair and wetsuits was really phenomenal. I can’t believe how many beautiful people exist here too. This place is, just, really something.

In recent days I’ve battled with whether or not I would post here on this page. This was after learning SOME people have access to it :’). But, that was a short self-battle. I’ve always posted here, and I will continue to do so. This is a public forum and I’m glad that I was reminded of this. Nothing about posting online is personal so why should I pretend it is? Its not a big deal, even if I was a bit embarrassed at the fact that there are actually people reading this, and that I’m writing (at times) some extremely personal stuff, as I will below.

I have not really talked about the past week or whats gone on. Last week, before my move to Australia, a friend of mine had come to visit me. This was a friend whom I met in Greece, at a bar in Kalabaka. Thats not entirely true. We met on Tinder, but after meeting for drinks and talking, I gauged everything to be friendly. We kept in touch as we went separate ways — me to Prague and back home, her to Iceland. While I was home she wanted to meet up. I thought about going up to Montreal, but I decided against it and all I could think about was my last visit up there. That was magical. So, I agreed, fully knowing how challenging it would be to try to settle my affairs at home and still travel northbound. She was excited and made plans for the both of us, meanwhile I was trying to find ways to get out of my agreement. I ended up telling her it just didn’t make sense for me to go up there. She, immediately, offered to come down and said she could stay with me. Okay, sure, “yeah, you can stay at my place” that’s okay. She came down, brought me some tim hortons (which I really missed), we mostly watched Star Trek — in separate chairs, we hung out, Mittens hissed at her worse than he’s done to anyone, we went to the Boston Athenaeum and spent half a day there, played trivia together, and we slept separately at night 2 nights in a row. She left that next day.

This is where it gets personal. I guess all of that wasn’t satisfactory for her. She felt confused, I guess, and as it turns out I misread everything. Well, she wanted to come back down before I left, and we set the rules that we are NOT looking for anything together. She again, came down, brought tim hortons again, and I got us a hotel room. It was a great time, we went out into the North End and got dinner and walked around a bit, talked, and hung out. We didn’t do anything that night, but at 3am the both of us woke up and we slept together. Honestly, I couldn’t stop thinking about my ex, and the sex was awful. It really was awful. I hated everything about it. She was beautiful, she had an amazing body, everything was perfect. But I couldn’t help but think of Katie. Now, SHE was good, this was just so bad. I will leave it at that. She really liked it, and she made that known, but man, this made me miss Katie so much. After everything, I stayed in the shower for a very long time and just thought back, replaying memories in my head, imagining her cute little smirk that told me “I love you, Matt” as she…. ugh… well you know the rest probably. I can’t go further with that. Again, this is a public forum, and now that I know it will be read, I’m hesitant to say things that I know would get me into trouble. Still, if I learned anything from this little fling, I learned that I am not over her yet — and that I took the sex for granted. I hope kt still thinks that I was good 😂😂 not that it matters. I’m hoping things will be different down here in the Land of Oz.

p.s. This all took me a while to write and two of my roommates at the hostel have been talking (and moaning??) in their sleep. I’m the only dude in this room of 8 people which is insane. Anyway, I have to pee and have been trying not to get up, but I definitely have to now. I’ll try and update as my life gets more interesting. Also I need a pair of socks like this guy:

[ciscodeviceprob-blog]

Not Connecting with McDonalds WiFi

When you are at any McDonalds store then you will get free wifi connections. You can easily connect your computer and mobiles easily using some easy to follow steps. When you face problems accessing macdonald free wifi internet connections then you will need to get some tricks for this. In this article, we are explaining solutions when you are not able to connect your computer with McDonalds wifi access.  see the answer to the question that whether McDonalds wifi is good or not from the blog here.

 Why I Am Not Getting McDonalds WiFi Access?

 Here are possible reasons you are unable to get wifi access from McDonald

 1.     If you have very hard firewall settings for your computer device then your computer device will not allow you to connect with public network.

2.     Click on “Accept as Solution” button so that your computer device can get connected to public wifi.

3.     There are some applications that you can install to your mobile device. these applications are designed so that you can get connected to macdonald free wifi access easily. Most of the applications are available free of cost.

4.     Click on yes button when you get “Authorize Connection?” button.

5.     If your mobile device or your computer device do not have Java enabled web browser then am sorry to say but you will not able to connect with McDonalds wifi access.

6.     If you have any old device then you will need to get a newly updated device and then you can have McDonalds high speed wifi connections.

 These are the steps so that you can easily connect your wireless devices with McDonalds wifi access. If you are still getting issues and problems then we will suggest that you must talk to store manager directly. You can talk to them and get free wifi access for your devices.      

[ciscodevices-blog]

How to connect public wifi without password

Everyone of want free wifi connections and you can easily find free wifi connections from many locations. If you are living in USA then you will find free wifi access at McDonalds stores but these wifi connections are available only and only if you purchase food from their stores. Using mcdonalds wifi login window you can easily manage your wifi settings. In this article, we are explaining some secrets that you can follow so that you can connect your computer or mobile device to public wifi even if you do not have password for connections. Check for the Macdonalds wifi applications for mobile phones from the blog here.

When you need to access any public wifi access when you do not know about the wifi password then you will need some applications for that. Some application like cloud cracker, instabridge, reaver WPS and back truck.  These are most famous application that you can use to access any public wifi and there are many third party utilities that you will find.

Although you can get connect to public wifi easily but this is not recommend at all because this is totally against the law. Because this article is dedicated to McDonalds wifi so we will mainly concentrate to McDonalds wifi. There are some rules and restrictions that you will need to keep in mind when you want to connect your computer to McDonalds wifi.

You can’t access all kind of websites from McDonalds wifi connections because they use very strong access controls or parental control techniques. You will need to keep in mind that you must not access any kind of adult website from this wifi network. When you purchase food from store, you can ask for the free wifi password. You can connect your computer to mcdonalds wifi login window using http:// 192.168.0.1 IP address.      

[katherine-mcnamara-archive]

LISTEN! I never made it past the red wedding episode because it gave me a panic attack. And I have the sound off bc I’m capping for nathalie and emilia gifs but like.

this is the body snatcher that came back instead of Jon officiating their wedding and i refuse to turn on the sound or be told otherwise.

[scribeofpnakotis]

Serious question, what the fuck do you people do as teenagers? I keep seeing this stuff where it's like 'it is illegal to exist in public in the US' and like. Idk so much of my life as a teenager was just. Hangin' out. Sitting places. Loitering outside the Maccas to bum WiFi. Sitting on curbs waiting to meet people. Looking at stuff we weren't going to buy. Do you all just stay inside?

Anti homelessness and ableism are tightly intertwined

Any measure taken against homeless people WILL harm disabled people, because fundamentally, they are about removing accessibility.

Anti homeless attitudes rely on the same underlying logic as ableism. That they “deserve” their misfortune, that they just aren’t trying hard enough, that they are inherently immoral, etc.

it’s a small wonder why when you look at how the entire purpose of anti homeless politics is to gatekeep access to society from people deemed unworthy

[zziu]

hockey’s finishing at 10pm but blooming days is released at 9pm 😭just when we go back to standard time i wanna be back on daylight savings!!!!

[lucifer-nanezgani]

Mankai at McDonald’s (crack headcanon)

That’s right, I’m back again with even more crack headcanons- this time brought to you by an afternoon I spent sitting in a McDonald’s (or Maccas as we call it down under) listening to the soundtrack again. What can I say, music makes me daydream. So, here we go!

Spring Troupe

Sakuya: Isn’t a regular customer, but tends to pick up a cheeseburger meal after a big test at school. Gets enough fries to share with everyone but they’re all cold by the time he gets home.

Masumi: Gets a family meal to share with the director and runs home to make sure it’s still hot. Ends up crying into his nuggets when the director turns him down. Gives it to Sakuya or Itaru when it gets cold.

Tsuzuru: Works at the Maccas. Resting “I hate working customer service” face. Uses the employee discounts to buy it for everyone else (because they won’t stop asking). Orders their coffee for delivery when working on a script.

Itaru: Rolls into the driveway at 3 am and orders 20-piece nuggets, everything off the breakfast menu and an extra strong coffee. Employees think he’s a cryptid. Eats it all while gaming

Citron: Always has coupons for some reason. Gets “The Biggest of Macs, please!” Steals their sauce packets for the dorm. Nobody understands him and they’re too scared to call the cops.

Chikage: Goes when there’s a limited edition spicy range to review for his blog. Asks for extra spice and is alway disappointed. Ends up bringing his own hot sauce out of habit.

Summer Troupe

Tenma: Heard about it from the other at the dorm for the first time. Now regularly goes to get fries in between shoots, school and rehearsal. Refuses to share.

Yuki: Grabs a frozen coke or frappe if someone asks him to go with them, but wouldn’t be seen dead there on his own. Has a long-standing grievance with happy meal toy choices from childhood.

Muku: N U G G I E S. Always forgets to ask for tomato sauce and is then too nervous to go get more, so he just sits in the corner and eats them sadly.

Misumi: Asks the staff to make him McNuggets shaped like triangles. Bursts into the kitchen and yells at the employees when they give him regular ones. Everyone fears the triangle nuggies man.

Kazunari: Buys it for the troupe whenever they finish a play or hang out together. His go-to order is a quarter pounder, extra cheese and shaker fries. On good terms with every cashier there- they love his energy.

Kumon: Hasn’t eaten Maccas since he was 7. Refuses to eat anything but the apple slices that come with happy meals because “it’s so unhealthy!!” Gives Muku his nuggies and sauce.

Autumn Troupe

Banri: Once ate 3 Big Mac meals in one sitting just to feel something. Now only goes to McDonald’s to charge his phone and use their wifi. Begrudgingly accompanies Juza there when he wants dessert and gets a coke.

Juza: Orders an Oreo McFlurry, sundae, apple pie and the entire McCafe dessert cabinet in one go. Is extremely embarrassed while doing all this. Gets chewed out by Banri, Omi and Sakyo when he gets home

Taichi: Always knows when there’s a deal or promotion on. Stole like... 50 Szechuan sauce packets to use at home. Orders a Happy Meal in his high school uniform with no shame to collect the toys.

Omi: Are you kidding? This man has never even been to Maccas. Why would he? He can make nuggets at home- ends up confused as to why everyone still goes when HE CAN MAKE NUGGETS AT HOME

Sakyo: The drive-through black coffee dad in the flesh. He’s a cheapskate but even his standards aren’t that low. Does try stealing everyone else’s fries if they bring them home, though.

Azami: His dads never got him Maccas as a kid and now he is filled with the rage of a thousand suns. Bought a happy meal with Taichi once just for the experience. Is in the “only eats the apple slices” club with Kumon- he found out the hard way that everything else is bad for the skin.

Winter Troupe

Tsumugi: Used to work at the Maccas Tsuzuru works at now. Never passes up a McFlurry if someone’s ordering. Mostly just funds everyone else’s food though

Tasuku: Tsumugi took him once in uni when they were super broke and needed an assignment done. Partial to a Chicken Caesar wrap, but that’s it. Sits in the corner and grumbles about it when the rest of the troupe goes

Hisoka: Orders exclusively off the dessert menu. Tsumugi told him about a limited marshamallow McFlurry once and he hacked into and emptied Homare’s bank account ordering it every day. Has been spotted passed out in the play place at midday before

Homare: Occasionally used to pen his poems over a coffee there when he was younger. Buys Hisoka the limited desserts, but had to change his bank details after the marshmallow McFlurry incident. Now harbours a grudge with the company.

Azuma: Only ever went there when he was working as a cuddler if his client wanted it. Developed a fondness for the Sakura season range and goes once a year for the limited menu items. Also funds Hisoka’s dessert escapades

Guy: First tried Maccas with Citron after moving back to Japan. Oddly fond of the salads. Mostly just gets coupons for Citron. Tried a Filet o Fish once and was personally offended on multiple levels

[ubercharge]

i'm stuck at Wal-Mart because my sister locked the keys in the trunk of the car so now she's walking home to get them . please save me

[routerdevicesettings-blog]

Check out the best, right and the easy way for connecting to the Macdonalds wifi.

[bennifits]

Bizarre idea but hey, what about the misfits (you choose) and their s/o and there's a blackout, what would they do lol

A/N: slowly moving back into the hang of things! this seems interesting. I’ll only do two maybe i’ll add others later.

Blackout

Swagger:

“Oh shit!... Oh it’s just the fuckin power”

States the obvious that there’s a black out multiple times

Busts out the pre-charged portable chargers for phones

Scrambles around to find lighters

Zuckles:

Looks at the fuse box, touches a few things and then has the idea to go to maccas (macdonalds) for wifi since the power is out

Mutters ‘this is bullshit’ a lot.

Phone dies an hour later

Toby:

Goes to the fuse box, opens it and then closes it and goes back inside

Busts out the candles if it’s night time to lighten up the place

Brings out the board games

[sardoniyx]

Officially in Tokyo!!! We can see Tokyo Tower right outside our Airbnb! It's gorgeous!

[katherine-mcnamara-archive]

quick tags being fixed the week i’m not at home asdkfasdkfjfdkj but also when i get home it’s over jasdfkjf i have SO MANY gifsets and packs sitting in my drafts i can now one click tag. ITS OVER I’M NOT EVEN SORRY. asdfjfdj

[kingsmakers]

Sydney gothic

You hear some tourists excitedly talking about Bondi Beach. You went there once, a long time ago. You never went back again. You don’t want to crush their dreams, so you speak nothing of the horrors you witnessed that day.

You go to Circular Quay. So do approximately 50 million other people. They are all taking photos of the Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge.

You don’t remember what it was like to drive somewhere for free. The toll roads are ever present, watching, waiting.

You order a smashed avocado. You can no longer afford to buy a house. 

In fact, no one you know owns a house. There are always places available for rent but somehow, they always cost so much money.

No one you know lives alone. It is too expensive. Everyone rents with at least 5 other people.

You travel to the western suburbs - Mount Druitt, Penrith. You thought you knew poverty, until you came here.

You get off the train at Central Station. You need a map to navigate. It takes 45 minutes for you to walk to your next platform.

It’s magpie season. Everyone hides indoors, fearful to go outside in case of a fatal swooping. The magpies watch malevolently from the trees.

It’s election time. You vote for the Greens, and so do most of your friends. You get yourself a democracy sausage as payment for a vote well done. 

Liberal retains power. You don’t know who did this to you all, but you will make them pay for it.

The bus is never late. Nor is it early. It arrives precisely when it means to. You, however, are frequently late because of this.

Someone says it’s snowing in the Blue Mountains. You wouldn’t know. You’ve never seen snow in your life.

One of your friends get their P plates. It is now time for the Maccas Run. This is not optional, it is a rite of passage.

The latest person to get their P plates is usually the Designated. The first person on their full licence will become the new Designated. No one questions the system. Everyone knows instinctively who the current Designated is.

You don’t know if it’s the right fortnight to put your recycle bin out. You wait for your neighbours to make the first move.

All of your international friends would like a photo of a quokka. You have never seen a quokka. You hear they are on some tiny island off the West Australian coast.

Your wifi isn’t working. You can’t remember the last time it did work. it has abandoned you permanently. You are practically dependent on your data now.

One of your favourite bands is doing an “Australian tour”. This consists of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. The fans from Perth won’t stop bitching about it.

Snakes and spiders don’t bother you. You’re more worried about the infestation of cockroaches that seems to set in every summer. There’s always at least one that flies.

You drive for 12 hours. You are still in New South Wales.

@have-fun-storming-the-kastle told you I’d do the thing, also @fraysquake because you’ll appreciate some of this Aussie goodness.

[louispinkshorts]

im not gonna b on much this weekend rip