vote on The most unusual place I have logged into Perl Monks from is:
my home, whilst taking a bath
somebody else's home
somebody else's home, whilst taking a bath
my office/school/university
my office/school/university, whilst taking a bath
my car, whilst driving
a train
a bus
a boat/ship
an aeroplane
StarBucks™
a SpaceShuttle
a public washroom
a private washroom
somewhere else...
Comment on The most unusual place I have logged into Perl Monks from is:
Re: The most unusual place I have logged into Perl Monks from is:
by gam3 (Curate) on Oct 01, 2006 at 04:22 UTC
My car whilst taking a bath.
-- gam3
A picture is worth a thousand words, but takes 200K.
Re^2: The most unusual place I have logged into Perl Monks from is:
by spiritway (Vicar) on Oct 03, 2006 at 04:54 UTC
++. I've seen limos with bath-tubs (or tiny swimming pools - not quite sure). It could happen that someone checks into PM from one of those. Knowing us, it probably *will* happen.
by McDarren (Abbot) on Sep 30, 2006 at 10:03 UTC
heh, I was hoping this poll would get used. Gives me the opportunity to brag about having logged into Perl Monks from 38,000', whilst on a SIA flight from Tokyo to Singapore earlier this year.
First time I've used the net on a plane, and I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of the connection. The only real challenges were elbow room, and hitting the wrong keys during turbulence :)
by itub (Priest) on Oct 11, 2006 at 15:41 UTC
The only real challenges were elbow room, and hitting the wrong keys during turbulence
And what about the price? ;-)
by McDarren (Abbot) on Oct 11, 2006 at 17:11 UTC
From memory, I think it was around US$20 for the duration of the flight. It was a 6 hour flight, so that wasn't too bad :)
Only problem with that was - the battery on my ThinkPad only lasts 3 hours tops :(
by herveus (Parson) on Sep 30, 2006 at 12:46 UTC
Someplace else...sitting in a tent, and I don't mean "circus".
by zentara (Archbishop) on Sep 30, 2006 at 11:38 UTC
Planet Zipwon, the last WIFI point before entering the great Void.
I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Cogito ergo sum a bum
duh! How could I possibly have missed that one as an option :p
by greenFox (Vicar) on Sep 30, 2006 at 14:00 UTC
A hotel room on the gold caost... In my defence I had been out on the beach already, had had breakfast and my friends *still* weren't out of bed, in their defence it wasn't 8am yet *grin*
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. -Basho
by tye (Sage) on Oct 02, 2006 at 05:58 UTC
Gee, and all of those times I even pointed out that I was chatting from the hot tub (zip-lock bags++)... Not that I think that's the most unusual place I've connected to PerlMonks from... Doctor's exam room? Tent? (tilly even dropped by and blew up my bed) Rodeo? Oh well, I guess I now have one more reason to take a hot-air balloon ride.
- tye
by samizdat (Vicar) on Sep 30, 2006 at 21:07 UTC
... an embedded PicoBSD computer... with lynx. Really. What a pain, but I did it. :)))
Don Wilde
"There's more than one level to any answer."
by kudra (Vicar) on Sep 30, 2006 at 17:54 UTC
I had to pick the friend's bathtub option, although in truth I can't remember if I checked Perlmonks as well, or just my email.
But that's nothing, compared to typing with a toothbrush while taking a shower...which I have only heard of, but never witnessed.
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 09, 2006 at 18:26 UTC
Where can I get a waterproof computer? I hope you disabled the WiFi camera.
by gregor42 (Parson) on Oct 10, 2006 at 13:20 UTC
Where can I get a waterproof computer?
Make your own!
First you start with some balsa wood & silicone gel ...
Wait! This isn't a Parachute, this is a Backpack!
by Koosemose (Pilgrim) on Sep 30, 2006 at 20:09 UTC
Home, but that's plenty weird enough.
Just Another Perl Alchemist
by woolfy (Chaplain) on Oct 02, 2006 at 14:11 UTC
Not all the above. Too bad, I really would like to have been on a Space Shuttle. But...
I have logged in while taking a bath, both in my own home and in another home.
Train, boat, car (yep, while driving, once)
Home, another home, at the office
In a very nice pub in Cambridge (not StarBucks, but hey, free wifi!), while watching the telly, England beating Andorra in a soccer match.
Can't remember about a washroom, so I guess not.
Too old for school (well, at 43 I could teach, and yes I know, at 43, I could follow a course).
My university! Yep. The Amsterdam Perl Mongers organized the Third Dutch Perl Workshop in the main building of my "old" university in Delft. Even though it was 20 years ago that I was a student, it still felt "mine".
Somewhere else... yep, plenty. In a park. And in our backyard, on the terrace, in the garage. Visiting the neighbours, using our own wifi-network. In the building of the Birmingham City Symphony Orchestra during YAPC::Europe::2006 (I've seen other Perl Monks there who did the same).
Most unusual place... the boat. The high-speed trimaran ferry from Hoek van Holland (The Netherlands) to Harwich (United Kingdom), and back. Wonderful to read nodes while speeding the North Sea, taking over immense cargo ships, and once in a big storm.
I hope to be able one day to log in while taking off in a rocket to outer space. Shuttle, SpaceshipOne or whatever. Gotta get rich first... but how... once upon a time we have a Wendy in space. Wendy keeps on dreaming.
by dws (Chancellor) on Oct 02, 2006 at 04:39 UTC
An exhibit in TomorrowLand at Disneyland, before they figured out how to lock things down.
by AJRod (Scribe) on Oct 01, 2006 at 14:23 UTC
In an international airport whilst waiting for connecting flight. Internet was free.
by ambrus (Abbot) on Oct 18, 2006 at 11:41 UTC
Free Net? Which airport is that? I wanna go there!
by ambrus (Abbot) on Aug 28, 2009 at 11:48 UTC
I wrote that in 2006? Strange. Ferihegy (Budapest airport) has free wifi, at least on some parts of terminal 2, and I think it might have been like that even in 2006. When was terminal 2 reopened?
by mikeock (Hermit) on Oct 01, 2006 at 19:59 UTC
On whatever network is unsecured in my neighborhood!
Got a few small coffee shops that all have wi-fi that is totally unsecured!
My sig Sucks!
by prasadbabu (Prior) on Sep 30, 2006 at 09:42 UTC
Somewhere else: Looks for Internet Center :-)
Apart from office, when i go to internet center, first i log in to Perl Monks.
by brig (Scribe) on Oct 11, 2006 at 07:41 UTC
My somewhere else is a secluded cubby hole inside a tiny grove of trees nestled between a fraternity house and the university building where I work. You are surrounded by hundreds of people but you can't see them and you can barely hear them.
I love WiFi.
by arkturuz (Curate) on Oct 02, 2006 at 07:43 UTC
This summer I logged into PM.org from a used book store/ineternet caffe (in a city 500km from my hometown) where if you buy a book you get half an hour free surfing. I bought three books and was happily surfing for one and a half hour for free :-)
by margulies (Friar) on Sep 30, 2006 at 16:41 UTC
Whenever I see a computer! Home, work, school.... I'm addicted!
by DrHyde (Prior) on Oct 03, 2006 at 12:15 UTC
The dungeons of a medieval castle, while bored and waiting for a small child to stop fondling the torture implements.
by zshzn (Hermit) on Oct 01, 2006 at 06:26 UTC
by cyclist38 (Hermit) on Oct 02, 2006 at 23:30 UTC
the Khana Nirvana Community Café in Dharamsala, India.
by PerlBear (Hermit) on Sep 30, 2006 at 23:26 UTC
somewhere else.... from a starship.... aft science station ... on the bridge of The Enterprise NCC-1701-E ...
while on a return visit to Earth, Starfleet Command
by blue_cowdawg (Monsignor) on Oct 05, 2006 at 13:41 UTC
ummm... how do I put this delecately.... errrm.... while sitting on the lap of the Porcelain Goddess! Yah... That's how I'll say it....
Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional
Peter -at- Berghold -dot- Net; AOL IM redcowdawg Yahoo IM: blue_cowdawg
by Moriarty (Abbot) on Oct 07, 2006 at 00:10 UTC
This seems to be a very appropriate pole for me just now as I'm currently logged on from the Rosny Library in Hobart, Tasmania.
Having a lovely time, wish you all were here. :)
by swampyankee (Parson) on Oct 02, 2006 at 21:55 UTC
While bathing?
I'm sorry, but electrical equipment and water is not the best of combinations; I would think one would want to avoid using a computer while (I'm from the US; we don't use "whilst" 'cause our teachers would hit us for it) in the bath.
As an aside, the closest I've ever come to an exotic locale is logging on to Perl Monks at my sister-in-law's house. The only likely form of transport would be either MetroNorth or an Acela
At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation.
—Igor Sikorsky, reported in AOPA Pilot magazine February 2003.
by monarch (Priest) on Oct 03, 2006 at 08:02 UTC
I don't know if a low voltage device in a bath is dangerous, but I have committed the sin of logging into Perl Monks whilst using a DELL LAPTOP ON MY LAP!
Ouch! That's very risky behavior. Maybe you should take up something safer. Skydiving?
While the low voltages used in laptops wouldn't be dangerous to humans (or aliens?), water probably isn't good for the innards of a typical laptop. The laptops I've seen don't tend to be watertight…
by g0n (Priest) on Oct 03, 2006 at 18:55 UTC
I just voted 'a boat/ship' from a boat. GPRS++, after 6 months of isolation, I can access the net in the evenings :-)
"If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing."
John Brunner, "The Shockwave Rider".
I wonder which of the 9 (as I write) Monks whose most exotic sites were on a Space Shuttle were lucky enough to have been able to get to PerlMonks from the Space Shuttle. (Or conversely, which 9 astronauts who've flown on the Shuttle are lucky enough to be Perl Monks.) I wonder how many Monks could get near an active Space Shuttle,
It only says logged in from a space shuttle... not necessarily from a space shuttle whilst in orbit.
I never mentioned the Space Shuttle being in orbit at the time, either. I did, however, make the assumption that it was an active Shuttle, not one in a museum, where interested persons could climb all over it with few restrictions.
I am quite aware that the set of people who have access to the Shuttle is much larger than the set of people who fly in the Shuttle.
by tbone1 (Monsignor) on Oct 02, 2006 at 12:35 UTC
The Greatest Spectacle in Racing
tbone1, YAPS (Yet Another Perl Schlub)
And remember, if he succeeds, so what.
- Chick McGee
However this is the Greatest Spectacle in Racing
by rdm (Hermit) on Oct 06, 2006 at 03:21 UTC
Admittedly is was to prove a point, but halfway up a 30m cliff-face.
On the same face, I also took some time out to read a book on my Newton, and to make some notes about climbing techniques.
-Reality might not get out of Beta today. (O.Timas, "Bot")
That's a toughie. I guess I'd have to say whilst NetStumbling from a Gondola in Switzerland ascending the Matterhorn.
by jdtoronto (Prior) on Oct 03, 2006 at 15:51 UTC
In the train from Toronto to Montreal
On a plane from Tokyo to Hong Kong
Sitting in a public park here in Toronto
Eating lunch at an amusement park in Forida
On an ocean going liner in the mid-Atlantic
by ysth (Canon) on Oct 09, 2006 at 02:31 UTC
A sukkah.
by jonadab (Parson) on Oct 10, 2006 at 17:48 UTC
From within the State Library of Ohio building, during a break in a conference.
by blazar (Canon) on Jul 21, 2007 at 13:23 UTC
I know I've noticed this poll just a "little bit" late, but the most unusual place from which I've logged into Perl Monks is a hospital's bed, which in the course of the year or so since May, 31st 2006 has unfortunately become not unusual at all... and this is an option I haven't seen mentioned yet.
by TStanley (Canon) on Oct 02, 2006 at 23:53 UTC
Al Dhafra AB, United Arab Emirates
TStanley
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that "nothing is worth war" is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. -- John Stuart Mill
by kutsu (Priest) on Oct 07, 2006 at 23:26 UTC
From the USO, God bless those volunteers.
Nothing is stranger then a bunch of military members getting together....except, maybe, a bunch of perl crazed monks getting together.
<quote> Nothing is stranger then a bunch of military members getting together....except, maybe, a bunch of perl crazed monks getting together.</quote>
Where would Perl-crazed monks in the military fall in this ranking? It may be a very small group, however. The only member of the Perl monk's military order of whom I'm aware (there may be many, many more) is brian d foy.
well the PM Military Orders seem to be more "Ghosts" and "Ninjas" so good luck finding out who they are but there are a lot of service members, or former service members, here at PM....And yah, that proably makes us all extra nuts :)
by chacham (Prior) on May 13, 2016 at 12:15 UTC
I was takin' a bath
Long about a Saturday night... yeah!
Rub-a-dub
Just relaxin' in the tub
Loggin' into the Perlmonks site.
by Athanasius (Bishop) on May 14, 2016 at 04:14 UTC
Laptop or not, the whole idea of mixing electronics with bathwater makes me cringe inwardly; and now I can't get Roy Johnson's homenode picture out of my head. :-O
Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,
Oh, come on. They make ziploc bags large enough for a laptop, don't they? :) In truth, though, i have my Kindle in a Ziploc quart bag for bath-time reading. It works quite well.
by stevieb (Canon) on May 13, 2016 at 18:28 UTC
TMI, but still, you win :)
by jimbus (Friar) on Oct 13, 2006 at 03:42 UTC
in the restroom from my pda... somethng that might happen more often... reading the forum on my PDA in remote location, not just while using the restroom :)... if I could figure out how to get the forums with out all the noise that renders them difficult on a small screen
--Jimbus aka Jim Babcock
Wireless Data Engineer and Geek Wannabe
jim-dot-babcock-at-usa-dot-com
by gj2666 (Beadle) on Oct 13, 2006 at 20:05 UTC
Winfield Kansas, County fairgrounds, Acoustic Music Festival