Do any of you use laptops while traveling?

[abcdefz]

Specifically by bus or train, I think.

I ask because I saw this guy on the bus today having a bit of a time of it as the bus would go bumpity bump; his laptop use was dedicated 17% to keeping the laptop on his lap.

So I wondered if a suspender button were added to a laptop, and then the laptop tethered to the belt with a little clip or something... about a one foot (adjustable) length of something-or-other to stablize things a bit... think that would be of any use?

Just curious.

[ms.peachy]

You can buy little roll-out rubber thingies that go across your thighs to keep your laptop from sliding off. I'm sure there's a name for them, I dunno what it is though. It's just this sort of oblong mat you put on your lap. I remember seeing it for sale somewhere.

[abcdefz]

Ah.

I assumed there must be something, but I've not noticed anyone using anything.



In other news: I'd like a cell phone that has a little bit of dictation time built in, just for little notes here and there. As it is now, if I want to make a not,l I have to call my home or office number and leave myself a message.

"Don't forget to pick up some spinach."

"Don't forget the Intel meeting Tuesday."

"Don't forget to wake up."

Etc.

[mp-seventythree]

I have a Nokia 6230, that has a memo function on it....very handy (y)

[HEIRESS]

I want a laptop

I think ill buy one in november

yes yes

[enree erzweglle]

This doesn't answer the question.

Last month when I was travelling and in my room, I found that if I held my laptop in a particular way and if I held myself in a particular way around it, I got free wireless. YAY.

I was an internet hobo (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=internet+hobo) but it beat the alternative.

If they would have made something that would have dangled the laptop and maybe me with it from the ceiling, I would have been spared from having a backache or two.

When I travel on a bus, I read real books--the kinds that are bound with glue & printed on paper. If I ever needed laptop suspenders or little rubber stop-its, I'd have to make myself rethink the laptop. :o

[ms.peachy]

I might use mine, depending on how long a ride it is. For my normal commute, no. But for example, yesterday I had a 45-minute train journey to a meeting out of town. So I did use it a bit then, because I had the time and project to work on and a tray table, so why not?

[abcdefz]

...I think we're supposed to be impressed by the folks who work 'round-the-clock to such an extent that, yes, that extra twenty minutes on the bus at 6:30 AM really matters and they've got to squeeze in some more number-crunching or whatever.

I'm way more impressed with the person who's successful enough that they only have to put in, say, a six-hour day. Or less. That's success, to me.

[enree erzweglle]

...I think we're supposed to be impressed by the folks who work 'round-the-clock to such an extent that, yes, that extra twenty minutes on the bus at 6:30 AM really matters and they've got to squeeze in some more number-crunching or whatever.

I'm way more impressed with the person who's successful enough that they only have to put in, say, a six-hour day. Or less. That's success, to me.
Those people in that first scenario? I wouldn't trade places with them for the world. I've watched schedules like that consume families and drive people insane or close to it with corporate paranoia and greed. My friends who are in industry are expected to work 80-100 hour weeks; I couldn't do that even if I tried.

I think you're right--a lot of them do it to impress. Who they're impressing, I don't know--probably just each other.

[CrankItUp!]

I need one with a toilet paper compartment in it. :D

[abcdefz]

I think you're right--a lot of them do it to impress. Who they're impressing, I don't know--probably just each other.




Maybe the imaginary critic in their heads. God knows, I do stuff to impress the one in mine.

Must say, though -- the dude was well-pressed. (y)

[ms.peachy]

I dunno if I'd assume that someone who's 'working on the way to work' to impress people. If it's, like, everyday, that's some skewed priorities. But I know that someimes, if I am working on a project and the ideas are coming and I'm really into the groove of it, I'll work wherever I can, on the tube or the bus or a bench or at a cafe, wherever I happen to be. Or if I've got a presentation or something to do that day, I'll use that time in the commute to review my slides or whatever.