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Is a movie prop the ultimate laptop bag?

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Re: Is a movie prop the ultimate laptop bag?

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Post by bobotowned »

bobotowned wrote: post #9

if the bag was dropped in a forest would it make a sound? or just void your warranty… what's the sound of one hand clapping? Answer: OP's blog

My laptop stand is a repurposed cardboard wine delivery box, plain brown corrugated. been using it for seven years. Each side is covered with notes: my contact data for different regions, feature ideas, architecture sketches, even little 'zen' reminders for dealing with daily inbound slop, like "if you can read this, you are getting paid for this."

It has three usable heights (standing, sitting, with/without external keyboard) and actually prevents neck and eye strain.

Today’s new note for the 'zen' side: 'This box is not the ultimate laptop stand. Do not blog about it.' 0% joking. Well except for the zen note.. that was the joke

Re: Is a movie prop the ultimate laptop bag?

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Post by themadturk »

nenenejej wrote: post #109
themadturk wrote: post #91

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I'm in the suburban Seattle area, and many, many adult professionals carry a backpack...even when they commute a few miles by car and walk 100 feet into their offices.

By car? Where they all parking?

Suburban office parks still have lots of parking.

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Post by xp84 »

dylan604 wrote: post #116
xp84 wrote: post #104

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Maybe it's just startup life, but living in SF during the 2010s decade, I didn't know many people who drove to work. Who wants to sit in traffic and then pay like $300 a month in parking fees when you can sit in traffic on MUNI vehicles for much less, while doing something useful? Even people who lived in the farther-out suburbs usually drove to BART.

These comments always make me laugh a bit. When the conversation is about cars, people chime in about how owning a car is dumb and public transpo is great. Yet, when the stories pop up about how public transpo is failing, people complain about how horrible the experience of using public transpo is and it's just easier to own a car

I didn't say owning a car was dumb, just that driving to downtown SF specifically for an office job is pretty inconvenient and expensive and therefore most of my startup colleagues didn't do that.

Also it's hardly a hot take, I am sure 90% of the ones who do that commute would agree!

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Post by recursive »

kragen wrote: post #251
bigstrat2003 wrote: post #163

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You don't need to be rich to have enough backbone to do your own thing, and not worry what someone else might think.

Not if you're willing to die. Otherwise you do.

Are people... dying for using unfashionable laptop bags? That's terrible.

Re: Is a movie prop the ultimate laptop bag?

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Post by kragen »

recursive wrote: post #265
kragen wrote: post #251

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Not if you're willing to die. Otherwise you do.

Are people... dying for using unfashionable laptop bags? That's terrible.

No, people are dying because they can't get good enough jobs, which is 100% contingent on what other people think of them, or because they've been ostracized from their previous support structure, or because they're depressed and commit suicide, or because they're divorced and alone. Very few people can get away without worrying about what anyone else thinks of them.

Perhaps it's a coincidence that Joe O'Brien died this week at 48 or 49 https://old.reddit.com/r/rails/comments/1nn3jel/joe_obrien_1... after being ostracized from the Ruby community†. But there aren't many people who die that young. Social isolation is a top risk factor for depression.

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† for, in my view, good reason: he fired his employee after she turned him down when he sexually assaulted her in a bar. I don't think he deserved to die for this, but I also wouldn't have wanted to hang out with him.

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Post by tomcam »

komali2 wrote: post #246
tomcam wrote: post #205

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Trash bins at end of term

We used to raid the giant dumpsters they put in the parking lot and we'd always go to the dorm that had all the international students first because the loot was best. Scored an xbox 360 once, a monitor that still worked another time.

Damn!
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