Hiked out to a hot spring at Big Bend National Park with my laptop, my satellite dish, and a big solar panel, and spent my day working with my feet dabbling in the river.
That was a pretty awesome day for me but I bet in 50 years people will just be irritated that all the cool places are full of losers trying to get work done and ruining the vibe
The elevator shaft in 100+ year-old building while running Ethernet cables between the 8th and 9th floor.
That actually sounds pretty cool. Was it?
It wasn’t as dramatic as it sounds honestly. I was going down the service ladder and had to stop and test the cable halfway through.
My manager at the time turned white as a sheet when he found out I did that.
Had to check for unknown WiFi signals for a client. So I was walking around with my laptop in hand and a WiFi antenna. So cafeteria, toilet, staircase, server room, chill out lounge, parking spot and rooftop. It was pretty funny trying to assign all the WiFi networks to the cars in the parking lot and to the other buildings and stores around. That day I learned just how far away you can still see WiFi networks if you use a reasonably strong antenna (just a usb-stick basically).
At the computer desk where my desktop computer already is.
on the roof of the Regenstein Library
A windowless room in the upper floors of a military air terminal. NASA interns left beer in the fridge somewhere else up there IIRC. Kinda boring tbh.
Strangely its also the most comfortable room atmosphere I’ve been in. Literally just folding tables and chairs, but there was lots of hardwood trim.
Disneyland. Client needed a data migration. I’ve also had to do similar tasks by pulling over at rest stops because everything is always an emergency.
I was at a barbecue on a Saturday night once when my boss called in an emergency because he thought we were being hacked. The reason being, because he was in Starbucks trying to look at our website on his phone and it wasn’t loading properly. I had to explain that:
- It’s Saturday night and I’m not on-call for IT.
- I’m also in the art department and IT is in no way part of my job description.
- Because of 2, if we are being hacked I don’t know what to do about it.
- It’s probably just that Starbucks wifi is shitty?
That was a stressful job lol.
In an ICU room. I was the visitor. The patient had dozed off. I had a client wanting reports for a board meeting. Finance does not pause for family emergencies.
While in line for a banquet. Had to show my pass sent to me by email, had my laptop on me, and didn’t want to log in on my phone.
On the standing bench at a beach bar in the Caribbean wearing jeans while programming
