...laptops tend to mean you're not getting any.
37 percent of Americans bring laptops (and other disconnect-anxiety stuff) to bed with them; more and more people "choose the internet or TV over intercourse," worries the tech news site, Switched.
The professor gazing at rows of laptops in her classroom is gazing at a roomful of witless celibates.
One wonders if the author is looking into a mirror.
TO: UD
RE: Speaking....
....for yourself?
Regards,
Chuck(le)
Taken at face value, the commments indicate not WANTING any. Although I don't know anyone for whom this is true (certainly not this 5 laptop household).
What we use laptops as a substitute for is TV and newspapers - which is the way it should be.
My husband and I have been spending our evenings watching movies on our laptops, or showing each other YouTube videos or shopping for products we have agreed to purchase. And then we put our laptops on the floor and make hot monkey love, because a husband who will shop online with you is sexy!
They're using the laptops to make plans to hook up later. Instead of, you know, participating in class.
TO: Peg C.
RE: What I Get
"Taken at face value, the commments indicate not WANTING any." -- Peg C.
I think 5 times a week is enough. What do YOU think?
But then again, she STILL reminds me of the female lead in that SciFi movie Life Force. She even has the same maiden name.
"Although I don’t know anyone for whom this is true (certainly not this 5 laptop household)." -- Peg C.
You got me there. We have 5, but one is the venerable Mac PowerBook 175; 16 years old, but it can still get it up.
On the other hand, we've got four towers; two of which are servers.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[Pardon me while I hose off the testosterone.]
I thought laptops were dogs. A dog is more useful, and less pretentious. If I'm sitting next to a person using a laptop (like on an airplane), I quickly dismiss the person as boring and order a double.
The Bonzos never take laptops on vacation...
After 30 years of staring out at classrooms filled with witless, sex-crazed adolescents, it's comforting to know I'm now staring out at witless celibates. Much easier on the aging libido.
The comments about witless celibate students might be meant as a joke but it is an example of the disdain and contempt that is harmful to students and their learning. Why do we feel that degrading students is a part of the job? Oh sure, it is just a joke. Lighten up. Behind jokes is an attitude that belies the beliefs of the teller, sort of like the Uncle who keeps making racial jokes. There is something deeper behind the joke. For many universities it is a belief that our students are not quite good enough for us. We need better students. Not really, we need better attitudes toward our students. We need not recruit the best but we must make those we recruit their best. And by the way, what make us think we are so damn good anyway? Many of us could never get a position and teach at the school we thing we should be at anyhow. Some of us can be so arrogant that it blinds us to ourselves and our students. They are better than you give them credit for and you may not match up to your self valuation. Now that is a good joke.
These are the attitudes that help get me work as a customer service and retention consultant. I do like the ability to put food on my table but could survive with fewer schools that need to learn how to value and retain their students rather than make them run out the doors.
