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What's in Your Gadget Bag, Cory?
Cory Doctorow has taken a two-second break from his road warrior ways to pen this description of the crud he lugs around. Read it and weep, wanna-bes.
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"Is that a gadet in your pocket, or are u just happy to see me?"
what a geek....oh wait.
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An Electronic Thumb
The Guide
Last, but not least, a towel
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Apparently his kit doesn't contain a host capable of withstanding the first 5 minutes of /.'ing. Still loading.
Hope he's got a spare webserver in that bag because they're going to need a new one.
I predict that there will be at least two of everything in the bag, and taco won't realize until he actually sees them right next to each other or somebody says "Hey! You've got two PowerBooks! Ha! Dupe!"
I didn't see "a girlfriend" in that list...
The coolest voice ever.
It looks like they are finding out just how 'unpopular' slashdot is riiight now
"Hey! Youve got too PowerBoocks! Ha! Dupe!"
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"60 Canadian pesos"
That's good shit.. We can insult both of our neighbors in one shot.
...one of the things he does NOT carry around is bandwidth.
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Cory Doctorow has taken a two-second break
Maybe he should have taken a 4-seconds break. He could then have used the two extra seconds to get a decent hosting service.
Write boring code, not shiny code!
Boy do I suck at this.
US Democracy:The best person for the job (among These pre-selected choices...)
Look. My acustic coupler works just fine, as well as the day I stole it from the computer center at school. Why should I upgrade? Life is good.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
Hey, look! Anonymous coward Karma Whoring! How long before he gets to moderate? Soon, I hope, because I see him posting all the time.
(buy a toothbrush when you're there).
This guy needs to check his priorities. He has all that crap with him just in case... but what if he gets laid?
Lets face it... nerds dont get that many chances... so we should all cary condoms at all times. It would be terrible to have the chance of a lifetime and not be prepared. They are much cheaper than child support and antibiotics.
Obama is a twitter sock puppet
An extra set of headphones in case an impromptu lan party were to spring up.
man, your life is gonna suck when college is over.
london is drowning and i live by river
If you had asked him before he got all those emails about herbal viagra: Swedish penis pump- that's in my bag baby, by Cory Doctorow
You only need two things. Duct tape and WD-40. If it moves and it shouldn't, use the duct tape. If it doesn't move and it should, use the WD-40.
yes.
All right. I know I am not the only one here who thinks this: I'm so tired of the phrase "Road Warrior." I like and respect Cory Doctorow, but he is not a "Road Warrior." Neither are those wanna-be geeks who go out to sell technology instead of do technology.
Until I see some souped-up buggies with frickin' lasers, I don't want to hear about road warriors. I hate that phrase more than I hate iSomething, or eOtherthing. Hell, I even hate it more than I hate "My Foo." All that was clever the first time, cold pancakes with no syrup the second time, and absolutely grating the third time.
Frickin' lasers. Until then, zip it.
Microsoft is to software what Budweiser is to beer.
Your civilization doesn't have rackmounted servers and plasma TVs in your travel bags? How primitive!
I've got more than that in my left hip pocket alone!
Of course, the 15" Powerbook chafes a bit, but...
I have a girlfriend whose name doesn't end in
A computer. ...what, you were expecting a whole bevy of singing and tapdancing gerbils?
Honorary Member of Jackie Chan's Kung Fu Process Servers
Maybe I'll throw a worry stone in there.
If you never make mistakes, it's probably because you're not doing anything.
because no matter which crowd I'm in front of when I start pawing around and pulling stuff out, it almost never fails to produce a "WTF is THAT!?!?" from whichever crowd, geek or musician, I happen to be around at the moment :-D. (Sadly, haven't ran across any fellow-geek, linux-using blues players around my area, hope I'm not _that_ rare a breed :-/ )
Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
Reporter: So, Mr. Einstein, what's in your gadget bag?
Einstein: Gad-get who?
Reporter: Gadget bag?
Einstein: Oh, a clickitty sack! No, I don't carry those. I used to have a compass, but I ruined that with the magnet.....I also used to have a motorcycle, but my licence got revoked for driving too fast. I explained to the officer that I was going under the speed limit, but he didn't understand....
Reporter: I see, how fast where you going?
Einstein: c
Reporter: see what?
Einstein: No, 299,792,458 m / s
Reporter: Could you convert that into miles per hour?
Einstein: No.
Reporter: Yeah, I was never good at math either. So, what gadgets... err I mean clickitty things do you carry around?
Einstein: Oh, just a pencil and paper.
Reporter: How about a watch?
Einstein: Ah, I find it irrelevent.
Reporter: I see. That's not too impressive. I hear even Von Neumann carries around a cell phone.
Einstein: Look, Johnny and I never got along... I don't mean to bad mouth the guy, but you think he'd invented a new fundamental law of physics or something. Oh and Godel tried to get me one of those pre-paid things... I never use it. I told him, I don't even wear socks, and when I do where socks they don't match. Oh, and I don't tie my shoe laces either. Mrs. Godel bought me some velcro shoes. They're nice.
What do you mean my sig is repetitive? What do you mean my sig is repetitive? What do you mean....