I have been thrice-surprised this week by my wife‘s technological prowess, which I would like to believe is related to her marriage to me. I have a good causal argument for the third, but the first and second requires a bit of temporal jiggering.

First, she beat Mario World 2 on the original Gameboy as a kid. Nice. Using that, I can get in a few rounds of Halo 2.

Second, she was also the best shot in her house of three brothers on Duck Hunt from old-skool NES. Need I mention more as to why I am attracted to her?

But yes, there’s a third. Glory hallelujah. We switched from DSL to cable for internet access. The cable guy came over while I was at work and she was home. I figure I would come home early and reconfigure my somewhat complicated home network setup to use the new pipe. What with the pipe going in to the D-Link 100mbs router, which routes the network share link, the wired computers, and the wireless router.

When I arrived home that muggy summer evening, I gave her a peck and scooted over to my iBook. Not thinking, I flipped it open and fired up Mail. To my surprise, new messages popped up. I tabbed to Safari and browed to Google. Yes, she configured the cable modem, and then the main router to use the modem, thus switching our network from DSL to cable, all in a couple of hours that afternoon.

I love that woman.

August 12th, 2005 | Technology