(Walk to class)
(Sit down, open laptop)
(Watch and smile as automatic location detection by MarcoPolo determines that you’re now on Campus, and calls your PERL script to automatically authenticate with the captive portal)
(Smile more as Adium establishes connections and brings your IM online. The script worked!)
(Pull up calendar, news reader, and SVN repo config page)
(Grab notebook from backpack absently)
(Create a new repo to start storing your home directory in: long past due to back up some things)

Anonymous classmate: “Do you think this was the lecture he said was canceled?”

(Look up, confused. There are 3 minutes to class time, and only maybe 10-12 people in the room, instead of 50ish)

All: “What?”

(…)

(Pull up course homepage, note news item: “Reminder: There will be no class tomorrow, September 13.”)

(sad face)

(inform the next 6 people who walk into the room of the news… chuckle over collective mistake)

(go home early 🙂 )