Where are You and Your Computer

[glennmac]

When you are talking to us here on Tractorbynet, I mean.

I am in one of two places. Right now, I am in my office in Hartford, CT. I am on the 22d floor of an office building. I only use an IBM 570 laptop. It is on my credenza, which is right below a large window. So if I lift up my eyes, I see a park below me and the golden-domed CT state capital building across the park. The trees in the park and beyond are now all in foliage.

But I hate coming into the office. 55 mile commute each way. I only do it 3 days a week. Like someone said on another thread recently, "A bad day on the tractor is better than a good day working in an office." I agree.

So, most of the time I'm online is when I am at home. There, I am always in bed with the laptop on my chest. I have a nice home office with a Mac, but I like hanging out in bed, and hence just love the laptop -- or chesttop, in my case. Often my dogs are laying with me on the bed -- Max, the stickaholic German Shepard, and Sasha, the Tibetan Princess Lhasa Apso. In the evening, I have talk shows on, which I listen to as I periodically check Tractorbynet and other internet things.

Where are you?

 

[bpence]

Interesting question. Lots of us will probably get fired over this thread.

At this moment I'm sitting in beautiful Dearborn, MI at work. Unlike yours glennmac, I don't have a great view, but do overlook a small courtyard. I'm running a Dell Latitude laptop right now off a T-1 connection from our network (at least I think that's right). Tractorbynet is kept minimized on the bottom tool bar, along with a couple of other sites I like, and I spot check on occasion some days. Other days I don't. Since I travel some, the laptop keeps me wired to the world from wherever I end up at night. Tractorbynet is kind of a fun thing to keep up on when you're stuck in a hotel room somewhere. I do a 52 mile each way commute, and I use the time to keep up on all the CDs I love to listen to.

At home, about halfway between Pontiac and Flint, MI the HP 600 mhz machine is on a dedicated phone line and from about 7:00 PM is on-line full time until everyone goes to bed. Between the kids, my wife, and the occasional times they let me use the system, the keyboard stays pretty warm. On weekends, it's really tough getting system time(everyone is home), so it's usually real early on Saturday or Sunday before everyone starts stirring that I get to run the internet.

Later.

Bob Pence

 

[Alan L.]

Right now I am sitting in my office on the 14th floor overlooking downtown Dallas to the South. I can also see Texas Stadium over to the West. I'm using a Dell Dimension PII 333 on a T-1 line here. At home (52 miles away) I use a Dell Latitude PII 300 notebook computer on a regular analog phone line.

I make the commute 5, sometimes 6 days a week.

I use my tractor on my 24 acres 6 miles west of my current home, but we should be moving out there before yearend.

 

[geneP]

Glenn, before I get off the topic of the thread, I'm always at home when on Tractorbynet. I'm retired, so I have to participate on my own time.

I, too have a Lhasa. This is our second one. I think it is in their blood to think they are royalty. Ours has our routines down pat, and even knows what day it is by what we do when we get up. She lets us know when we don't do something in the right sequence! She is 11 years old, so she has us pretty well trained by now. My two have been very fierce protectors when approached by strangers.

Gene

 

[Harv]

I'm right at home on my computer. Literally.

I work at home and have one of those bedroom-turned-office setups. Nothing fancy -- just what I need to get the job done. Naturally, I do all my TractorByNet'ing from my main workstation, which is an older PowerMac 6500/250 with 2 monitors, flatbed scanner, film scanner, DSL hookup and...

Oh, what the heck -- the attached photo tells it all.

 

[Thomas]

Harv,
I can't believe you don't have any tractor pictures,but mostly of your new Kubota. /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[Bradey]

A little light reading on your scanner, Harv?

To answer the question, I'm currently in a corner office of a two-story building (ground level, 2nd floor, corner). The office is set in a 40-50 year old red pine plantation stocked by school kids from what-was a nearby K-12 (now gone in consolidation, building leveled with little remnant). My typical view is across the entrance and wood lot, at some neighboring storage rental units. Out my other window, I can see, about a quarter mile away, past trees, swamp and houses, a former home where I lived nearly ten years. Behind me is a local softball field. My other computer is about 2 miles away at home (an easy lunchtime run), a place where I more typically log-in.

 

[Thomas]

Glenn,
My office located on the fifth floor which over looks quarter of the campus,also I have view of Vermont and New Hampshire mountains and when its a nice day outside its very hard to set in the office. /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif
I face 2 Dell computers in which one for chemical alarms and the other for system control checks,than there the good old lap top which mostly use for {email..tractorbynet..instant messages}back up. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

My home tuck in on a side of a mountain which I can see New Hampshire & Vermont and during the winter months barley see New York. /w3tcompact/icons/cool.gif
Elevation about 1033 feet and thats a steep pitch. /w3tcompact/icons/blush.gif

My Packard Bell located in front of my sliding glass doors so I can have a view of the weather plus any activity,oh yes I'm about 13 steps away from the coffee maker /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif less than 75 to my dream {Kubota} machine. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Glenn you drive 55 miles to work /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif for my round trip to work about 19 miles.
Just can't compare the country to the city. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif


Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[RobertN]

Thomas,
I have a Farmall-A collector plate on the wall, and 1/16 Ertl '58 cub, Super-AV, and wide front C on the shelf. Working on the complete "letter" line of 1/16 Ertl Farmall's. My poor Kubota doesn't have a picture. Maybe when it is a 60 year old collector tractor

Glen,
I watch tractorbynet, followed by ytmag and atis on a old P-100 Intel built machine at home in the office/reloading/sewing room. From there can see the Crystal range, looking east towards Lake Tahoe. At work, I look out over a sea of cubicles while looking at a IBM thinkpad. At least on the way to our lab, I can see a coutyard... Then it's a 15mile commute to the home office.

RobertN in Shingle Springs Calif

 

[Boots]

glenmac,

Right now, about 11pm, I just sat down with the laptop on the bed and check out the new tractor posts while watching Dave Letterman on the tube. This is the norm at night.

By day, I check the site a couple of times a day. My office has NO window's but is decorated with several green tractor toys. My job is associated with building a new power plant so I don't see many tractors at work, but I do get to see some neat heavy equipment (big cranes, big trucks and one of the biggest tractors I've ever saw, I'll have to post a pic of it somewhere). Anyway, I get tired of seeing all that so I sneak around and look at tractorbynet.

Boots

 

[scruffy]

Glenn, and all, I am sitting in my desk chair on the sun-porch/office/school room/dining room and wife's office.
This is caused by having furniture for a 2000 sq ft. home stuffed into an 1100 sq ft cabin! The ol' puter is a home built Athlon 700 w/256 meg ram and 30.6 gig h/d. it is networked with two 450mhz machines and the old 200mhz school computer (for homeschooling) which all go out to the net via a super-duper 56k modem (each one has there own modems or network connection -which is too slow when more than one are on). I have an ISDN router, but pacbell won't let me use it, they want individual ISDN modems on the machines. What can I see? Nuttin. My desk is a corner unit with hutch, with the wife's desk butted up to one side
and the school unit on the dining room table for the duration. The other computer is the son's and is in his bedroom along with enough other electronics to make any 10 kids drool. Not TOO spoiled.

 

[alan40]

Good Morning to all. Right now the coffee is brewing, my son is watching Clifford and this is when I get my chance on the computer. I'm using a (now don't laugh) Gateway 486-66 and yes it still runs great but when up log on it's easy to go get a cup of coffee since you don't miss anything. I live in Vermont on a little hill and have a nice view except for today. The fog is so thick I can't even see past the deck. As for work I stay at home with my son. When I retired from the Navy my wife and I made a deal who ever finds the best job go's to work. She has 2 college degrees and I hunted subs for the navy. To say the least there are no submarines in Lake Champlain. We really believe in family so we don't do daycare. That's the one reason I am home. As for the computer when you buy a tractor,FEL,rearblade and bushhog all in one year somethings have to go and you know I don't miss them at all. I've come to the conclusion that a tractor rates right up there with the outdoors and a good dog!!! They can't be beat.
You all have a great day!!!
Al

 

[WVBill]

I'll join in.

I'm in my office on the fifth floor of an office building in Washington DC. (If this were a melodrama, that would be your cue for the "booo.... hisss....).

I have a window but it looks out on a brick wall about ten feet away and the neighbor building is tall enough that I cannot even see the sky. I work on a Dell Optiplex GX110 and access Tractorbynet through the network to the internet at T1 speed. I keep Tractorbynet minimized all day and check in between phone calls, e-mails, spreadsheets and memos.

I live in West Virginia so my commute is about 65 miles each way, 5 days a week. My home computer is an old 486 DX4-100. It's good enough for what I do on the computer at home, which is almost nothing since I sit in front of one at work 9 hours a day.

Al: I'm retired Navy too. Did you hunt subs as a SWO or Airdale? I was an NFO in EA-6B's.

Bill

 

[huckflynn]

Where am I? I have two views from my office. One, behind me, is a view to the west through the bay window that takes up most of my back wall. I see nothing but big blue sky with white, billowing clouds and rolling hills that just keep on rolling into the horizon. To my left and up (about 10 o'clock) through my office door and continuing through the door to the patio, I have the rising green of the grass and a smattering of pine trees that climb the hill into more big blue sky.

Where am I? I'm at home - and if it seems like a bit of heaven -- it is. And I'm at work. A bit of heaven about my work is that I work at home. I'm a lucky man.

Huck

 

[huckflynn]

I dug out my little "web cam" to give a bit of the view out the back window. I think the lens is a bit cloudy but you get an idea. As for internet connectivity, I'm on a Roadrunner cable modem (Time Warner).

Huck

 

[EddieW]

I am in my study. To my left are two 4' x 12' windows that run from the floor to the ceiling. I look out toward my front lawn which is absolutely the deepest richest green I have ever seen right now. There is stand of pine trees with a white 3 rail PVC fence just beyond. My computer is a 400mhz HP w/56K modem, scanner, and Read/write CD drive. My wife uses the scanner to scan images and convert them to a format for her embroidery machine. My computer sits in a cabinet where the doors can be shut and it looks like a big armoir. I am the Information Resource Manager at work and it would look really bad for me to be caught surfing. I don't view it as any different than a smoke break but I choose not to do it.

 

[Bird]

Well, Glenn, being "retired" I have one bedroom of the house converted to an office/study with my desk, file cabinet, stereo, and a couple of bookcases. I can look out the window to my right at my backyard, blackberry patch, vegetable garden (plowed ground right now), and pasture, or I can look out the window behind me to a pecan tree, crepe myrtle bush and beyond that, the barn. I'm just using an IBM Aptiva AMD K2/300 with dial up Internet connection on old country phone lines that get 26400 bps at best.

Bird

 

[ERNIEB]

I'm at a desk that serves as my "office", located in the living room. Out of one window I can see the backyard, presently littered with toys, beyond that the propane tank and mesquite pasture. Out a window behind me is an area that I've cleared and is mostly bermuda, beyond that are other peoples houses, fields, and pastures. I can also see the steeple of the Catholic church in St. Hedwig, it's about two miles away. If it's quite, or if I'm outdoors I can hear its bells chime everyday at 6:00am and 6:00pm.
ErnieB

 

[huckflynn]

<font color=blue> I can hear its bells chime everyday at 6:00am and 6:00pm </font color=blue>

Nice.

Huck

 

[TexasJeff]

Currently I am at work.Round trip commute for me is 4 miles I am a Process Operator of a Lime Kiln.
I have 9 screens to watch with only 1 having the ability to get tractorbynet on LOL.Compaq deskpro on network at work
compaq 5240 at home on modem
here is a pic of me hard at Work