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

Anonymous classmate: “Do you think this was the lecture he said was canceled?”<\/p>\n

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

All: “What?”<\/p>\n

(…)<\/p>\n

(Pull up course homepage<\/a>, note news item: “Reminder: There will be no class tomorrow, September 13.”)<\/p>\n

(sad face)<\/p>\n

(inform the next 6 people who walk into the room of the news… chuckle over collective mistake)<\/p>\n

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