[jbweinbach]

Greetings.

My name is Jon Weinbach and I'm a reporter with the Wall Street Journal in Los Angeles. I'm working on a piece about bathroom tech, and specifically on the issue of folks working from their bathrooms -- and in the process, installing flat-panel TVs, phone lines, etc. I saw a thread on this site from 2003 that discussed using computers in the bathroom, and I'd love to get any funny anecdotes, thoughts, or intelligence on anything related to working and/or communicating in the "loo." If you've recently installed any tech devices (or carved out space for one) in the bathroom -- either at home or in the office -- all the better. I am looking for people looking to go on the record on a fun topic. I can be reached at: jonathan.weinbach@wsj.com, or on the phone at: 323-240-0940.

Thanks much in advance.

Best,
Jon Weinbach
Wall Street Journal
jonathan.weinbach@wsj.com
323-240-0940

[tooki]

The technical forums are for discussing that particular piece of hardware. I moved this to the Lounge. Furthermore, cross-posting is explicitly prohibited by our rules: "Do not post your question in more than one forum."

As for the question: A PowerBook is better than a newspaper!

tooki

[Doofy]

Hasn't Carrie Fisher had her home office in the bathroom for, like, hundreds of years or something?

Oh. And don't use a Windows machine in the bathroom. More than one pile of poop at a time is too much to deal with.

[tooki]

I wish I were rich enough to have a bathroom big enough to have an office in it! I'd get a submersible keyboard and a 40" LCD and lay in a hot tub and do everything there. Well, there and in the swimming pool outside that I would also have.

But for now, I have to be content with just using my PowerBook when I am sitting on the commode, hoping nothing CPU-intensive happens and causes the PowerBook to sear the epidermis off my lap...

tooki

[ambush]

I use my laptop in the bathroom, when I take a shower. I turn max volume and open iTunes. I even have a special playlist :-)

[Big Mac]

I've never had the urge to take my clamshell iBook into the bathroom with me, which is good because I doubt it would work out well - it would probably end up on the floor, if not worse.

[nerd]

I've used my powerbook in the bathroom before but there is never enough time. I just do the business and get out fast.

[iREZ]

i use the hamper as my desk when im on the john. ive also finished countless projects while on the bathroom, thing is my legs get numb after sitting on the john for more than 10 min so its always short lived. i even photographed a friend of mine while he pretended to be on the john and using the powerbook for a photography project that required me to take a picture of a chair table and person in one picture (john=chair, hamper=table, and my bud dressed like a used car salesman=person).

[JoshuaZ]

The urge to take anything more than a book or magazine into the bathroom with me has never happened. Quite frankly I was really disturbed when a co-worker told me that he often takes the phone into the bathroom with him.

I like to relax my mind as well as my body when in the bathroom.

[Dork.]

I think some of the upper management in the company I work for must have this type of setup.
It would explain where a lot of their recent ideas have come from....

[DigitalEl]

This is just gross. Doing anything in the bathroom other than freeing the dark hostages, taking the Browns to the Super Bowl or droppin' a deuce is just... Eww.

To this day, I remember my dad telling me about this nasty guy he worked with who used to take his coffee cup into the men's room and sit it on top of the urinal while he p!ssed... Gross.

Restrooms are for... Well, not resting. That's for sure. Do your filthy bid'ness and get the hell out!

[Detrius]

This post could have contained too much information.

Do you *really* want to know about my experiences in the bathroom?

[torsoboy]

Originally Posted by DigitalEl

... To this day, I remember my dad telling me about this nasty guy he worked with who used to take his coffee cup into the men's room and sit it on top of the urinal while he p!ssed... Gross.

Although I have not done that, I don't see what is so "Gross" about it. I mean what is gross about the top of a urinal? Nobody pees on the top (I was a janitor for 2 years, and I never had to clean pee off the tops), and I've never seen anyone holding onto the top while they pee, so why is setting your cup there gross? Now if he was setting it down on the floor beside the urinal while peed, that would be different.

[ShotgunEd]

Originally Posted by Big Mac

I've never had the urge to take my clamshell iBook into the bathroom with me, which is good because I doubt it would work out well - it would probably end up on the floor, if not worse.

Yeah, you might mistake it for the toilet seat.

[shunt]

*comes back with popcorn*

WTF ? They moved the theatre...this movie sux, anyways.

*sneaks into Finding Nemo*

...go little fishie, don't give up.

[ghporter]

My personal habits mean the least amount of time spent on the porcelain. However, because of the vagaries of the digestive system, I've sometimes taken the newspaper with me to er... distract me. No, not the Wall Street Journal; I don't buy newspapers without comics, because I believe in balance (and how else to balance the "news" than with absurd and silly comics?). No computers in the bathroom for me!