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Doing the Laptop Drive of Shame
netbuzz writes "If you bring your work computer home with any regularity, chances are good that you've done the Laptop Drive of Shame. (Oh, c'mon, admit it.) It's happening more than ever ... and costing more than ever, too, what with the price of gas and all." I'll spoil it for you — they mean leaving your laptop at home. Yay, Monday news cycle.
This is the first time I wish I had been rickrolled instead of getting that awful article.
See my journal for slashdot ID's by year. Mine created in 2005. http://slashdot.org/journal/289875/slashdot-ids-by-year
Slow news day ... or no news day?
At the bottom of the
On purpose, to avoid Monday.
I don't live that far away from work, so if I ever forget my laptop it's not too much of a trek. To be honest I'm more likely to "forget" my pass and then I have to go and temporary one from the lovely girls in premises (I'm not stupid you know).
Seriously though, I usually just put my laptop bag, with the laptop inside it (the most important bit) across my front door so that I have to pick it up to open the door. Obviously this only works if you're the first person out the door in the morning...
Summation 2
Go home you fanboys!
reminds of the last unfunny news cast where you stood outside an apple store and asked the people in line if they'd ever seen a naked woman.
As a rock-in-roll Physicist once said, No matter where you go, there you are.
Wouldn't that more likely be the Fedex next-day-air mail drop of shame?
I haven't done that with a laptop, but I have done it with marketing material I was supposed to bring to a conference. What did they expect? I'm a programmer... They should be glad I show up to work with a full compliment of clothing every day, much less remember to bring their pack of branded security badge holders and 8.5 X 11 fliers of lies and shame.
My sig sucks.
Still, it's good to know my porn buddy will be there to remove my drive of shame when I die.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=porn%20buddy
reminds of the last unfunny news cast where you stood outside an apple store and asked the people in line if they'd ever seen a naked woman.
That's only unfunny because they probably HAVE. Now, repeat the experiment in front of a GameStop....
More Twoson than Cupertino
Of course not, silly. It's an Apple store. Now, had you said naked man...
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Well, it would be easier to lug that damned thing without the desk. Cut the chain.
reminds of the last unfunny news cast where you stood outside an apple store and asked the people in line if they'd ever seen a naked woman.
That's only unfunny because they probably HAVE. Now, repeat the experiment in front of a GameStop....
Don't forget to append "in person" to the question.
Don't blame me for redundant posts. I can't type very fast. Hence the user ID.
Being an old and proud Slashdotter, I'd gone many months with R'ing TFA, and somehow I picked this morning to try it the other way.
Yay me.
Here's looking forward to another long stretch of blissful ignorance.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
A couple of weeks ago I changed an on-site router for one with a better firewall. No-one had the admin password for the old one so I setup the new one from scratch without any reference point. I would normally leave the old router on site 'just in case' but I managed to 'tidy it up' and bring it back to the office.
Guess what, a few hours later someone from the site was calling because a piece of neworked kit (a stock management scanner) could not connect to its remote ordering server.
To cut a long story short, my colleague drove the old router to Portsmouth (UK) - about 30 miles - and it was put on a hovercraft over to the Isle of Wight, where it was picked up by one of the site staff!
That must be the hovercraft of shame!?
AT&ROFLMAO
"it's where I put my phone, wallet, diary, car keys and sunglasses"
I think the word you're looking for here isn't "brief case," it's "purse."
Further, its just a warmed over I forgot my insert, I have to go back home:
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong fix.
"Sometimes I forget things and have to go back to get them. Now I leave my work laptop at home, and people laugh at me when I have to go back home to retrieve it."
It's not even news. It's just a pale, pale attempt to do Andy Rooney type fluff columns.
So yeah, I now regret reading the whole thing. It was a Rickroll that was so lame it didn't even have Rick Astley in it.
Imagine a 20 minute commute, and I didn't even notice I was missing my pants. Hell, neither did the other people on the bus. (It was the Bay Area.)
And people ask me, why did you hate living in the Bay Area so much?
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
I once had to do a software install on an ice-breaker. I had to fly out to the east coast, catch a twin-otter from a Canadian Forces base north to middle-of-nowhere-ville, then get flown by helicopter out to do an at sea landing on the ship.
After I arrived I discovered I had left one of the install discs on my desk at work.
Life is like a web application. Sometime you need cookies just to get by.
Eh, but four million US is what, like 300 GBP these days? You can buy an iPhone for that!
That's saying to much. Chances are they got there because of their poor driving skills. (note to mods, we are JK)
Help fight spam
Also add, "World of Warcraft characters with no gear on don't count"
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
I vote for adding "Cowboy Neil" as a mod option.
(interpret "or" here in the Boolean sense).
We english-speaking humans have devised a shorter method for explaining that. Behold: "and/or"
What an interesting concept.
Some lucky IT folks get a desktop and a laptop issued by the company, they also get a company issued wireless air card for computing while on the commute.
But wait there's more! You'll also get easy web based remote access to email. And as a bonus, you'll also receive VPN, and Citrix web access, so you can do work from any computer ... So for those of you who have a computer in almost every room at home, the only easy way to get away from work, is to go somewhere outside!
Wait!!! ... That's covered too! ... Let's not forget about the blackberry, the lock on your electronic leg irons!
CmdrTaco needs to do the Slashdot Non-News Walk of Shame.
Overheard earlier during the morning's staff meeting...
Boss: Now take a look at Johnson over here. He's a real-go-getter... wish I had, well, 5 more of him. I see him saunter up to the front door and what is he carrying? A gym-bag. That's right, while the rest of you slackasses are toting around your briefcases, laptops and courier-bags, he's ready to to work so hard that he'll sweat. While typing. At his cubicle.
Hoi Polloi: (Shrinks down in his seat, embarassed, actually starts to sweat.)
Boss: See, he's even doing it right now! Now some of you might complain of the smell, but not me. This plumber's son knows all about sweat equity and the way my old man would stink to high-heaven every day after work. That's the smell of success. So quit killing time in the break room and by the copier, and start making this company some money already.
Boss: Meeting adjourned.
We noticed, but anyone who rides a bus knows better than to talk to the person not wearing pants.