It's a conspiracy!

[alfreda89]

Well, no, probably not...but what if all these idiots are trying to get rid of geeks by making sure they can't breed?

Save the Geeks! Don't put your laptop in your lap!

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Laptop or fertility, which would you choose?

A study by State University of New York researchers says heat generated from laptops can significantly elevate the temperature of the scrotum, potentially putting sperm count at risk.

And for the growing segment of the working world that relies on laptops, a dilemma may emerge on whether to be productive at work or in the bedroom.

http://news.com.com/2100-1044-5485763.html

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Geeks do their work on a table because they're either doing work, or cruising interesting sites.

It's the dorkmeisters who use their laptops to watch porn on company time, and yeah, in their lap, so they can clap it shut if the boss cruises by.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

dorkmeisters?

I am pleased to say I don't think I know any dorkmeisters. I do remember, however, that Roger Zelazny used to type with his portable typewriter in his lap. There might be a few valuable people who do this with their computers!

The dorkmeisters will continue to type in their laps to hide what they're doing...thus ultimately improving the human race?

The really astonishing story was about the individual who dropped dead while traveling for the company--in a hotel room with a hooker--turned out he was a pimp working out of the company computers...government computers.

Human ingenuity never ceases to amaze me.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Maybe they don't say it any more, but when I taught high school, the dorkmeisters were the braindead ones, whose greatest idea of wit was Beavis and Butthead.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Perhaps they do--I worked hard to avoid people who thought B&B were amusing...

[ebeeman.livejournal.com]

I think it's a rather alarmist article... a lap desk is a perfectly good solution for this problem. Not like I have to worry about it like the male subjects in this article do, but I do like to sit in bed and write with the laptop in my lap, and I bought a lap desk maybe ten years ago.

Just Googled this, and there are companies already offering "heat protection" lap desks, which probably are identical to the ones that have been on the market for years.

---Ell

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Ah, Yankee ingenuity.... %^)

I am amused by the sudden alarm--this didn't occur to guys, when the first thing a fertility doctor tells them is, have the guy wear boxers instead of briefs? (VBG)