My friend Andy writes:
We’re doing some advertising for a bank that’s introducing its internet banking app. Do you have any creative/unusual locations for people to use their laptops?
So what are the most interesting places you’ve used a laptop?
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1. the hotel lobby of Big Bend National Park in far southwest texas, just last week. It was ironic because the hotel is quite rustic and 300 miles from the nearest cell phone tower, but they had wifi. They didn’t advertise it, but somebody in the hotel office had thrown a wireless router on their DSL line and left it open access.
2. on the ground in front of a tent in the Moraine Park campground in Rocky Mountain National Park. No wifi of course, but I did write half my doctoral dissertation there while camping alone. I would’ve written the whole thing there if my battery and DC–>AC power inverter hadn’t both died. The study breaks were majestic.
My wife and I have wireless in our apt. Let’s just say that bathroom reading has taken on a whole new dimension for me.
Josh K. beat me to it. Bathroom, definitely.
Wardriving - not the best safety message to send, but I know I’ve spent time driving around a city with the laptop in the passenger seat looking for wifi.
Standing in line for a movie, buying tickets to the movie on Fandango, just in time to see the guy in front of me not get any because they’re sold out.
During the New York blackout, I used mine as a flashlight since I lacked any other source of light.
Stayed in a little Mom and Pop motel in Rushville IL (Crossroads Motel) that ended up having wireless. It was just a router in the office and I had to put the chair in the front corner of the room for it to work, but hey, I was on line!
Interestingly, the router was set up for open access with the default name (lynksys). When I got home and fired up my laptop, it automatically connected to my neighbor’s network, which hadn’t been properly secured.
Chris-
They were saying in the talk about the MIT Media Lab’s $100-laptop-for-every-child project that for many 3rd-world families that receive the laptops, it’s the brightest source of light in the home.
Sitting in an arcade across from a closed e-cafe at a ski resort in Wyoming during the summer season, surfing on the newly upgraded PSP browser. My father sitting next to me doing the same on his work computer. We were not very cool to the youngsters passing us by on their way to the bar, but I felt the dawn of a new age of information. Suddenly I was thinking things like, “What a bother it is not to be able to instantly access all of human knowledge from any given location in the universe”.
I used my laptop all over Vancouver, stealing whatever open wireless signals I could find in a race around the city. I used Google for information to solve the clues, TransLink for bus schedules and Google Maps for directions. But despite the technological edge we had over our competition, my team unfortunately didn’t win.
Though, I guess that has nothing to do with an Internet banking app, does it? Hmm.