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Reading Slashdot From Strange Locations
aarrieta writes "I was thinking about the location of Slashdotters around the world. Many of us read /. from our houses/offices/schools. But I guess there are people reading Slashdot from non-traditional places/sites (an oil platform in the middle of the sea, Antarctica, the ISS, etc?) But what's the strangest place you've ever read Slashdot from, or the most remote place you're currently reading it from?"
But we only get Slashdot part of the day because of the satellite.
.. in bed with my wife.
But it'll never happen again honey, I promise!
Responsibility is the punishment for compentenc
Ahh...my office away from my office. The toilet. The only place where one can truely be left alone with Slashdot.
I read slashdot at an internet terminal at the foot of the Himalayas.
But what's the strangest place you've ever read Slashdot..
In the butt?
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. -- Carl Sagan
I have browsed /. more than once while tethered to the top of a 100' broadband tower.
My new title at the office is "Vice-President of Everything Else"
I'm in the stall next to you. I'd appreciate a courtesy flush.
-prator
I've actually read it from 700m below the earth, in a salt/potash mine in Germany.
in the highlands :) on a 28k modem in a small house(hut) that belonged to one of my friends dad. there was only one power socket so we had to unplug the fridge to charge the laptop :)
All spelling mistakes are due to solar flares...honest
My cell phone provider (Fido.ca) gives me 150 free email messages a month which I can send out from my basic SMS enabled phone. I format an SMS just right and it'll turn into an email. I send this email to my an aliased email address on my home machine which pipes it into a perl script. I can request weather information, system uptime, etc. And yes, I can download the slashdot XML news page and parse it up, tokenize it into emails 160charactors long and EMAIL it back to my cell phone.
"new SMS to 003436". "CMD S" for slashdot news command. 10 seconds later I get 2-4 SMS messages giving me the slashdot headlines. I've done this from a cottage, a highway coach, toilets in dingy bathrooms.
So naturally I read it in a cave and under bridges.
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Go canucks, habs, and sens!
I read slashdot before starting a shift at the Canada France Hawaii Telescope on the 14, 000' summit of Mauna Kea, on the Big Island of Hawaii.
... and got rejected, I'd be very upset right now.
Drill baby drill - on Mars
"On the toilet" : 1,624,115
"In Soviet Russia" : 890,560
"While commuting" : 5,109
"While stuffing face with food" : 4,483
"While watching pr0n" : 1,294
"While having sex (solo)" : 1,154
"Inside Michael Moore's colon" : 27
"Inside George Bush's head" : 25
"Hiding in the rafters at the Democratic convention... my God, the gas! The gas and hot air and bullshit are suffocating me! : 1
"While having sex (with partner)" : 0
--- Ban humanity.
Can't tell where it was, but the speed was 150 mph ;-).
Regards, Martin
For those who don't get the reference, and why it's funny... There used to be a TV game show in the US called "The Newlywed Game." It featured recently married couples and the idea was to see how well they really knew each other. The host would ask the men a question, and in order to get points, the women would have to guess how their husband answered. (And vice versa, women would get a question and the husbands would try to predict their wives' answers.)
Some of the questions were tame, e.g. "Ladies, what is your favorite type of seafood?" If a guy's wife answered "Shrimp" but he had predicted "Flounder" they didn't get a point. You get the idea.
Well, on one episode, the question for the ladies was: "What's the strangest place you've ever made whoopee?" (This was back in the '70s, you couldn't say "made love" or "had sex" on TV, so they would say "whoopee.") They were going for answers like "the kitchen table," or "the movie theater."
They got to one woman and she answers, "In the butt."
Hilarity ensued.
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I've done work as an underground network administrator for an energy company that has a huge fiber optic network underground. There was about 1200 feet of earth above me, and about 6 miles between me and the elevator out...
you insensitive clod!!!
Between the fountains and the Pompidou center is a great wifi spot. I posted using my Zaurus regularly while I was in Paris for four months.
I even met the guy who's point it is. He's on the third floor to the right of the police station. I asked him if it bothered him that I was on his wifi and he said, "Pas de tout" ("Not at all").
PS - Go easy on him, turn off images while browsing.
I'd rather have someone respond than be modded up.
I used to read it at my girlfriend's apartment. It was great - until my wife found out.
Why don't you just repeat the joke, but in a less-funny way? Oh, you just did...
Sorry but I think Sammy Hagar sucks...
Luckily my box seats were free and I had my Blackberry with me.
Bad boys rape our young girls but Violet gives willingly.
I'm posting this from that mythical place we have all heard of. Outside.
I don't know how much longer my body can take the bombardment of these intense rays of heat and light. Man was not designed to undergo such a harsh and cruel environment. The people around me walk with no regard for their fate. Not knowing that little by little this intense heat is killing them just as it is me.
It is for the better of those in my local D&D group that I am undergoing this experiment. I know, one day, that my dice will be saved in remembrance of this great and perilous journey.
What strange species is this? It has long hair and smells nice. And it's skin even has color.
I# los#ng signa########## [end of line]
News for turds. Stuff that splatters.
Especially if her port is in promiscuous mode, you never know what worms may have gotten through. Pay close attention and see if any Trojans which may use that port.
My favorite was being stuck in a burning commercial warehouse. We were positioned with a two-and-a-half to protect a rather large fire-load (huge pile of pallets and several tons of lumber), while the fire rocked on the opposite side of the structure. We had a trench cut in the roof about 40 meters farther in, with the wood behind us. Our job was to wait, and make sure the fire didn't cross that trench cut... and also tell the attack crew to run like hell if it got behind them.
:)
So, we drag our line to where we need to be, mostly blind. We've got a thermal imager with us, so we can see what's going on, but most of the time is spent staring at... nothing, just smoke wafting in our faces, along with faint glow from the imager display.
After about 10 minutes of this I'm bored out of my skull, and I realized I'd stuffed my IPaq in my shirt pocket before putting on my gear. The ambient smoke only allowed you to see about 4 feet, but the temperature was tolerable... so I whipped it out, and... detected an open wifi, lmao. So, slashdot is hard enough to read on an IPaq, but throw in wearing full gear with an SCBA in a medium smoke condition, it was probably one of the stranger places I've read slashdot. Had fun, though, I managed to get AIM up and send off a few lines to the wife.
And no, trying to read it with a thermal imager doesn't work
help me i've cloned myself and can't remember which one I am
In a strip bar. There's always at least one lady who doesn't do it for you. So I pulled out my... G1000 pda phone and surfed over to see what the poll on /. was. BTW the dancer was not happy that I'd still given her a dollar but completely ignored her. Oh well.
_damnit_
It's my job to freeze you. -- Logan's Run