[Michael]

The Atomic was my favorite internet Café. I could bring in my laptop or a corporate laptop connect to their hub and check e-mail/ download/ upload etc etc.

During this last vacation a last minute tax issue came up during my vacation. Documents had to be signed, printed and faxed within a few days or there would be huge tax consequences (one of those miracles of the US tax code where you don’t make any money, in fact you lose money, but at the same time with little warning you owe tens of thousands of dollars).

No problem I thought, I’ll just run down to the Atomic grab the documents off the corporate server, print, sign, fax and I’m done. I get to the Atomic it is closed. I walk to the next internet Café on 10th, they will not let me plug into their hub. I ran up and down fifth, no one would let me connect to their hubs.

Perhaps the Atomic would be open tomorrow, I thought. I came back the next day and it was closed. I had a few days left and I was running out of time.

TSTAR actually saved the day for me. He had mentioned that a lot of wireless hubs around Playa are wide open and not secured. I headed down to 5th sat at one of those new benches and found four wide open wireless access points. After a five minute download I had what I needed. If I could get a printer (thanks James) and a fax machine and I could stop the evil tax Nazis.

The next day I asked people about the Atomic. Apparently they recently held a kind of a fire sale. If you like the hardware, make an offer and take it home with you. Bottom line, I’m betting the Atomic is not going to open in a new location. The hardware is sold off. The Atomic is part of history. Playa moves on.