Making Your Bedroom a Sanctum from Technology? 148
"The lucky few of us who've managed to not remain single can have one recalcitrant database or webserver strain a relationship to the extreme when it misbehaves multiple nights in a row. I personally have developed severe sleep disorders over the past half decade due to the little issues that always seem to happen just after that much needed REM sleep kicks in. I certainly can't fathom the patience my signifigant other has for sharing the disturbances.
I woke a few months back with a laptop near the pillow, flat screen still powered on the tv tray and an equal distribution of cats and wireless devices at my feet. I had a headache from various system fans, drives spinning, and the 'dings' of incoming mail. Enough was enough. I decided I wanted to make the bedroom as much of a sanctum as possible. The other 85% of the house can have wires, TiVos in various states, and homemade networked kitchen appliances; the place of rest should be geared to that purpose if I'm to be an efficient geek."
Sounds obvious, but (Score:5, Funny)
Well, I'd suggest getting a girlfriend. They can be very helpful about the "release tension" thing, and a significant minority can even improve your "overall quality of life."
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And comes equiped with a WiFi port, and runs linux, speaks awk, looks like Natalie Portman with a a pantsuit full of hot grits, and who and will do anything for a buck --
unless it's with Bill Gates --
in Soviet Russia.
Fix problem while you sleep (Score:3, Funny)
All you have to do is unlock your doors when you go to sleep.
Then when you wake up in the morning, you won't have any of those pesky electronic devices in your house anymore....(As well as cash, credit cards or food)
SuperGlueBooger
Great relaxation device... (Score:5, Funny)
Tips to keep the chicks (Score:4, Funny)
1. when you invite them over and promise to make dinner...don't fall asleep and then complain when they wake you up
2. don't invite them over, and then ditch them to go Play Games in the Computer labs.
3. buy a bed. Girls don't like sleeping on the floor.
4. when they sit at your computer DON'T Grab the mouse and keyboard.
5. when they say "come to bed honney"... that means its time to stop playing video games.
note: these all come from personal experiance..
ohhh...p.s. Tell them you love them a lot
I Love you Darling!
hmmm (Score:3, Funny)
The ambient hum of 26 case fans... (Score:5, Funny)
Yes! (Score:2, Funny)
Oh...I thought you said a Sanctum FOR Technology...nevermind.
Re:Tips to keep the chicks (Score:2, Funny)
2. Hmmm...a girl is coming over, and you want me to go play Quake III with you and 9 other guys? Call me back when Quake XXXIV is released.
3. Hell man, if you don't have even a little tiny kiddie twin bed by now, I feel sad. No wait...not sad, but superior. Buy a freakin bed, you geeky assclown. Jeez...
4. What??? You're a geek, but you don't have retinal scanners and biometric ass-print scanners built into your desk and chair?
5. This isn't 1984, playing Pitfall on your old non-pausing non-saving Atari 2600. Games now have save-game features for just such occasions. Set down the controller, and put those fingers you've been working out for the last 20 years to good use.
Two words: (Score:4, Funny)
Re:stupid. (Score:5, Funny)
I know it's offtopic, but once a sales person once half-jokingly said that he thought I wasn't as dedicated to the job as he thought I should be. He wasn't my boss, and that comment was uncalled for.
So, a couple weeks later I was flying back from somewhere and he told me to call him when I got back to town. I took great pleasure in waking him up at 3 in the morning to tell him that I was back in town. The next day in the office he complained to me and I responded that I am devoted to my job 24 hours a day, and I assumed that he was too.
Got him!
Re:Focus on the bed (Score:5, Funny)
Absolutely. You should spend your money on your bed and your boots because if you're not in one you'll be in the other. And the rest on beer.
Re:stupid. (Score:2, Funny)
Don't they always do that?