Posted by
ryuzaki0
on from the first-it-was-a-screwdriver dept.
weighn writes "The SMH has this story about an eccentric Frenchman who carries about 1300 useful items attached to his body by various means. A digital camera is mentioned, so I guess there may be some form of computing device nearby. Anyone else a bulging pocketed geek-scout?"
Interesting pickup lines...
by
MacOS_Rules
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· Score: 5, Funny
Must be an embarrassment for the poor guy.
"Is that a ruler in your pocket or are you happy to see me?"
"Actually, it IS a ruler."
-- If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
-Thackeray, William
No Picture!?!?!
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Geeyzus
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· Score: 5, Insightful
The story is about a guy who basically has a bunch of tools attached to him, who calls himself "Crazy Eric" (go figure). The whole story is just about how crazy this guy looks, and there is NO PICTURE! What's up with that?
Mark
Re:No Picture!?!?!
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 5, Funny
Yeah, it's not like he didn't have a camera on him!
Anyone remember Parker Lewis Can't Lose? His buddy wore a trenchcoat, and was already prepared. Each time he whipped out an item you heard the sound of separating velcro.
This guy in the story should design suits for certain professions, with neatly designed inner pockets, outer pockets(like on the Ps1 game "P'Oed" featuring the chef with sidearm cooking utensil) and so forth and then sell them.
I only wish I had more coat pockets and such, but my trendy Dockers will have to do. Carries everything but a handgun in the pockets.
I find that Dockers don't last too long. If I might recommend: Tilley Endurables Their washing instructions are "Give 'em hell!", and they don't need ironing.
I'm giving them a plug because I had a pair of pants that the zipper failed on after a few years. I figured what the hell, and took the pants back to get the zipper fixed. And they did it -- free of charge! (I guess they really do mean "Guaranteed for life".)
The shorts have enough capacity to handle a six-pack. (To hell with all those gadgets!) And there's a secret pocket too. They cost a bit more, but will last waay longer than Dockers under geek washing conditions. Besides, they have this neat stone head outside their Toronto store, can't go wrong! The Big Head
-- One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Reminds me of the dilbert series where Dilbert has a gadget rivalry with one of his co-workkers. The two finally meet in a hallway and have a stand-off, western style. Both draw at the same but, but Dilbert's rival wins (rings all of Dilbert's gadgets) because his gadgets have speed dial.
"Speed Dial. Fool."
Can someone find that cartoon?
Yes, but does he have his towel?
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Discopete
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· Score: 5, Funny
He makes mention of sleeping in some unusual places, but he never mentions a towel!
Re:MIT cyborgs
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Fnkmaster
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· Score: 5, Insightful
I don't know any of them, but I rode in the elevator with one in the Media Lab back when I was working there as a research assistant a few years back. Fucking spooky when you hear a guy quietly clicking away with his one-handed keyboard-thingie while staring straight ahead. It was like he had no awareness of my presence or any other people around him.
Frankly, that kind of thing isn't good for humankind. I'm all for connectedness, but when we are so connected we lose our connections to the immediate world around us and the people right under our noses so we can email, check weather, and write code all the time - well, we truly lose some of what makes us human. And that's sad.
Apparently plans to produce a First Person Shooter game based on this frenchman were cancelled after prelimenary versions had gamers sitting there for 2 hours pressing "[" to cycle through inventory items.
Actually, this guy has proven possible half the first person shooters on the market today. "Lets check my inventory. Pistol, shotgun, rocket launcher, minigun, chainsaw, flamethrower, railgun, 6 ft claymore sword, M1A1 Abrams, deck mounted battleship cannon, small country, and 15 trillion rounds of ammunition for each... all of it fits conveniently into my armor/trench coat/pants pockets. MWHAHAHA."
It's still 200 items short of the number the average woman carries in her purse.
Re:I guarantee you one item he doesn't need to car
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1000StonedMonkeys
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· Score: 5, Funny
You know you've got problems when people on slashdot start making fun of your sex life...
What has it got in it's nassty pocketsses?
by
sbaker
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· Score: 5, Funny
My father used to work for the airlines doing Radio and Radar repair. He carried a little kiddies pencil case containing a Swiss Army Knife and an expensive Fountain Pen. The case was labelled "747 Repair Kit" and he swore those were the only tools he ever used. He also remarked that he used the fountain pen more than the knife.
My Swiss Army knife (a top-of-the-range one) includes a small ballpoint pen - so I don't need the fountain pen...but I have a tiny LED flashlight. That's the software guy's PC repair kit.
Re:MIT cyborgs
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scott1853
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· Score: 5, Insightful
It was like he had no awareness of my presence or any other people around him.
This has nothing to do with technology. Have you ever gone to a grocery store?
A surprisingly large number of people are completely unaware that that they are blocking the aisle when they have there cart on one side of the isle, themselves on the other, and yet they don't realize that you're coming despite your driving of the loudest shopping cart in the store.
Apparently choosing a spaghetti sauce takes a large amount of conentration and puts people in a trance like state.
The real way of the geek ...
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mboedick
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· Score: 5, Funny
... is not to have a lot of tools, but to use the same tool for many different tasks, like those old 101 uses for a Zippo lighter ads.
I've been bested!
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Engelbot
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· Score: 5, Interesting
Or, to be more accurate, completely outclassed. I'm still in the game, however.
Early on in college, I got diabetes, which I ended up treating with an H-Tron Plus insulin pump, from Disetronic. After trying a few different schemes for securing it to my person, I decided to park it on my belt.
Shortly thereafter I switched to a different blood glucose meter, which I discovered had a belt loop on its pouch. This made carrying it around much easier and more reliable. Sometime in here I found I needed my Leatherman more often than I happened to have it around. On the belt it goes.
The Palm and its belt case came shortly thereafter, rounding out the utility belt. It's served me well, but I'm not a student any more, and it's starting to get a bit awkward. (Yes, I probably ought to have realized this sooner.)
I'm hoping to consolidate, using a Visor and a FreeStyle Tracker for the meter (coolest device ever), but I'm also looking at a wireless telephone . . . maybe I should just give up and get a nice vest instead. Hmm.
Oh--yes, going through airport security is a royal pain.
No I think he just carries around their EULA for self defence. I can't imagine a much more suitable blunt object than that.
argh no no no
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nomadic
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· Score: 5, Informative
Well, the thing is France crumbled almost immediately. And they shouldn't have.
Well, maybe you didn't notice, but the Nazis were the most powerfull force in history at the time (they didn't start conquering the world on a double dare you know).
That's what the high school textbooks say. Unfortunately, like many things in the high school textbooks it's not quite accurate. France had a very large army, well-fortified, and after the invasion of Poland Britain also stationed troops in France.
Textbooks (well high school ones) also make a big deal about the German panzer divisions, but sometimes forget to mention that the French tanks were superior. The Germans just knew how to use them better.
So we have two well-equipped, sizeable forces in France, expecting an attack.
So what happens? The Germans flank the French, ignore the Maginot line, smash both the French and the British armies, and have reached the English channel in 8 days.
Yes, the constant insults about French courage are unfair, but they didn't exactly cover themselves with glory in 1940. Ditto for the British. It also doesn't help that the French have absolutely no sense of humor about themselves. Neither do the Germans, but the Germans at least have the excuse that they don't have a sense of humor about anything.
This is all held on with a single quick-release clasp in case I fall in deep water!
By way of explaination I'm a volunteer First Responder occasionally known to the brigade as "Gadget".
Vik:v)
Re:marauding pruner
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orthogonal
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Of course, I was completely outclassed by a guy at my college who carried at all times, among other things, flashlight, rescue sheers, first aid kit, fire repellent mask, multitool
I'm just guessing here, but... he had no need to carry condoms, right?
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Must be an embarrassment for the poor guy.
"Is that a ruler in your pocket or are you happy to see me?"
"Actually, it IS a ruler."
If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business. -Thackeray, William
The story is about a guy who basically has a bunch of tools attached to him, who calls himself "Crazy Eric" (go figure). The whole story is just about how crazy this guy looks, and there is NO PICTURE! What's up with that?
Mark
Anyone remember Parker Lewis Can't Lose? His buddy wore a trenchcoat, and was already prepared. Each time he whipped out an item you heard the sound of separating velcro.
This guy in the story should design suits for certain professions, with neatly designed inner pockets, outer pockets(like on the Ps1 game "P'Oed" featuring the chef with sidearm cooking utensil) and so forth and then sell them.
I only wish I had more coat pockets and such, but my trendy Dockers will have to do. Carries everything but a handgun in the pockets.
I thought standing behind someone in the supermarket paying with cheques was bad... imagine being behind this guy in airport security!
Pfft, frenchmen... I may be a geek, but I don't need any artificial means to be bulging.
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
...is a condom.
Reminds me of the dilbert series where Dilbert has a gadget rivalry with one of his co-workkers. The two finally meet in a hallway and have a stand-off, western style. Both draw at the same but, but Dilbert's rival wins (rings all of Dilbert's gadgets) because his gadgets have speed dial.
"Speed Dial. Fool."
Can someone find that cartoon?
He makes mention of sleeping in some unusual places, but he never mentions a towel!
Frankly, that kind of thing isn't good for humankind. I'm all for connectedness, but when we are so connected we lose our connections to the immediate world around us and the people right under our noses so we can email, check weather, and write code all the time - well, we truly lose some of what makes us human. And that's sad.
Apparently plans to produce a First Person Shooter game based on this frenchman were cancelled after prelimenary versions had gamers sitting there for 2 hours pressing "[" to cycle through inventory items.
It's still 200 items short of the number the average woman carries in her purse.
You know you've got problems when people on slashdot start making fun of your sex life...
My father used to work for the airlines doing Radio and Radar repair. He carried a little kiddies pencil case containing a Swiss Army Knife and an expensive Fountain Pen. The case was labelled "747 Repair Kit" and he swore those were the only tools he ever used. He also remarked that he used the fountain pen more than the knife.
...
My Swiss Army knife (a top-of-the-range one) includes a small ballpoint pen - so I don't need the fountain pen...but I have a tiny LED flashlight. That's the software guy's PC repair kit.
Then of course there is my mother's handbag
www.sjbaker.org
I'm sure he carries a list.
I/O Error G-17: Aborting Installation
It was like he had no awareness of my presence or any other people around him.
This has nothing to do with technology. Have you ever gone to a grocery store?
A surprisingly large number of people are completely unaware that that they are blocking the aisle when they have there cart on one side of the isle, themselves on the other, and yet they don't realize that you're coming despite your driving of the loudest shopping cart in the store.
Apparently choosing a spaghetti sauce takes a large amount of conentration and puts people in a trance like state.
Early on in college, I got diabetes, which I ended up treating with an H-Tron Plus insulin pump, from Disetronic. After trying a few different schemes for securing it to my person, I decided to park it on my belt.
Shortly thereafter I switched to a different blood glucose meter, which I discovered had a belt loop on its pouch. This made carrying it around much easier and more reliable. Sometime in here I found I needed my Leatherman more often than I happened to have it around. On the belt it goes.
The Palm and its belt case came shortly thereafter, rounding out the utility belt. It's served me well, but I'm not a student any more, and it's starting to get a bit awkward. (Yes, I probably ought to have realized this sooner.)
I'm hoping to consolidate, using a Visor and a FreeStyle Tracker for the meter (coolest device ever), but I'm also looking at a wireless telephone . . . maybe I should just give up and get a nice vest instead. Hmm.
Oh--yes, going through airport security is a royal pain.
Wait, you actually use their software?
No I think he just carries around their EULA for self defence. I can't imagine a much more suitable blunt object than that.
Well, the thing is France crumbled almost immediately. And they shouldn't have.
Well, maybe you didn't notice, but the Nazis were the most powerfull force in history at the time (they didn't start conquering the world on a double dare you know).
That's what the high school textbooks say. Unfortunately, like many things in the high school textbooks it's not quite accurate. France had a very large army, well-fortified, and after the invasion of Poland Britain also stationed troops in France.
Textbooks (well high school ones) also make a big deal about the German panzer divisions, but sometimes forget to mention that the French tanks were superior. The Germans just knew how to use them better.
So we have two well-equipped, sizeable forces in France, expecting an attack.
So what happens? The Germans flank the French, ignore the Maginot line, smash both the French and the British armies, and have reached the English channel in 8 days.
Yes, the constant insults about French courage are unfair, but they didn't exactly cover themselves with glory in 1940. Ditto for the British. It also doesn't help that the French have absolutely no sense of humor about themselves. Neither do the Germans, but the Germans at least have the excuse that they don't have a sense of humor about anything.
From the article:
:-P
"But if I don't need something, I don't bring it. I used to carry a pedometer, for example, but I've just taken it off. I never found I needed it."
Well yeah, once you start wearing a 15 kg jacket, you sure as hell won't need one
"The ones who dont do anything are always the ones who try to pull you down" -- Henry Rollins
OK, I think I can match that. I'm currently carrying in my bum-bag/utility belt:
:v)
Symbol SP17000 PalmOS PDA with laser barcode scanner, sunglasses, hair ties, cable ties, Leatherman wave, whistle, resusci-shield breathing mask, laser pointer, universal key, pen, surgical gloves, mini-blowtorch, lock-knife, magnifier/torch, cellphone, pager, 10m parachute cord, tape measure, various medications (figures, huh?), syringe, insulating tape, lockpicks, paperclips, magnesium flint block, mini-leatherman, wire probes, pins, needles, safety pins, wire saw, compass, fishing tackle, betalight, antiseptic, plasters, steristrips, pencil, waterproof matches, salt, snow-marker, comb, rescue shears, 2 marlin spikes, antiseptic wipes, wire saw, binder, Pez, cash and a major credit card.
This is all held on with a single quick-release clasp in case I fall in deep water!
By way of explaination I'm a volunteer First Responder occasionally known to the brigade as "Gadget".
Vik
Of course, I was completely outclassed by a guy at my college who carried at all times, among other things, flashlight, rescue sheers, first aid kit, fire repellent mask, multitool
I'm just guessing here, but... he had no need to carry condoms, right?
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