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I'm Supposed To Wear Loose Trousers

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This is what my wife told me this morning. She told me this after I was instructed not to use my laptop on my lap. Which is okay for her to do, I guess, because she's a woman. And there's less to, damage, down there.

She can be kind of a nag sometimes.

'Rob - don't drive 90 mile per hour.'

'Rob - wear your seatbelt.'

'Rob - be careful dragging the 17 foot, 300 pound Christmas tree up the side of our condo building and over our balcony.'

I mean, it never ends. And now I've been informed that the heat generated from my laptop is going to damage my boys. Based on sheer conjecture. I guess it's possible - since the tackle's outside of the box because it has to stay a couple degrees cooler than body temperature.

So according to C. Everett Wife, I'm supposed to keep the laptop off my person, and trend towards baggy slacks. Which is difficult because I'm a cyclist, which means my sporting wardrobe largely features spandex. Spandex trousers, wasn't that a Bloom County joke made by the basselope?

No topping of the lap, no close fitting pantaloons.

That's fine I guess. As long as I can still sky dive with my home-made parachute.


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# re: I'm Supposed To Wear Loose Trousers

Gravatar I think that news item had hit when the majority of laptops were wasteful heaters, easily reaching 110 degrees on their undersides. Today's more efficient models pose much less of a risk, unless you're some kind of hard-core gamer and constantly tax the CPU and GPU to its limit.

I guess on the pants issue she may have a point. Maybe these guys can get you set up with some snazzy baggy pants:

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3/6/2007 10:49 PM | Lorin Thwaits

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