How do you use your technology non-traditionally?

I leave the TV on so my dog can watch.

@ChazMaz which programs does your dog prefer?

Animal planet and Sci-fi channel.

As for shows? I will have to ask him.
That is if I can get the remote away from him.

Would a woman’s hitting her live-in significant other with a rolling pin or frying pan count?

@LexWordsmith Only if pinching their butt with cooking tongs counts too.

@Bonwhin heh!

@LexWordsmith Well, I didn’t specify that it had to be a positive use, so I suppose so!

@bonwhin : I thought that the actions that i mentioned might by now be considered traditional use of the technology, but the one you suggest is novel by me!

@LexWordsmith I only ever think of attacking intruders with such implements.

@Beta_Orionis : if you let that be known, i’m sure you’ll get lots of visitors!<grin>

@LexWordsmith wait, I meant the pans and rolling pins! ><

I warmed up a taco from Taco Bell with my laptop once.

My computer monitor at work is also a post-it note and picture holder. The laptop at home is also a cat face-rubbing place. :-)

using a milk crate to hold bottles in the bathroom. using the milk crate and the towel so an iguana can get in and out of the bathtub. using the radiator in the bathroom to keep him warm.

@Ria777 Iguanas are so much fun to watch while they’re in the water! Excellent milk crate usage.

thank you!

Duffy (the iguana) goes into an empty bathroom. I think (because of his sheltered upbringing) that he freak out in a bathtub full of water. in fact I think I tried putting him in there and he did panic.

@Ria777 awww!

I don’t have a baseball bat for a self-defense weapon in the house, so I use a 36” aluminum bodied pipe fitter’s wrench (with solid steel jaws) instead. A baseball bat might break; this thing, never. I inherited it from my MIL. It belonged to her husband; but he used it to open pipes. His idea of home defense was a semi-automatic 12 guage shotgun.

This is slightly off-topic but related; my son used his textbook called Computer Architecture to hold up his monitor. Amused me no end.

@janbb That’s not off-topic at all! It is a perfect example. You should tell your son that he is cleverly geeky and I appreciate it (as I’m sure you must as well!) :)

@Beta Onions I will tell him you said so but believe me he knows! (Both my sons are hilarious and I delight in their quirkiness.)

@janbb Good! We need more self-acknowledging, awesome people in this world. And kudos to you for raising such sons! :D

I use my tv in my bedroom as a shelf to put random crap on. I use my computer monitor as a digital picture frame. And my phone is my alarm and my security blanket, tucked safely in my hand when I sleep…

This has already been said, but up until a few days ago we didn’t have the heat on in the house (and i’m sure you know it’s been pretty chilly around here) so I would come home from work at 3 ish in the morning and before I got into the shower I’d put my laptop on my bed…by the time I got into bed there was a big warm spot in the middle. It was perfect, lol.

iPhone=Paperweight

XD

Had to come back to this question because I just found myself using the finely honed jaw of my precision machinist’s digital caliper to nick the stem of my lunch banana to make it easier to peel.

This started me on a reverie in which I imagined the dawn of Man, the toolmaker: a hairy ancestor reaching for a sharp stick to nick his lunch banana. Fast forward 4 million years to the development of the semiconductor and space age alloys that make this little miracle of digital measuring precision possible, and what does the dude do with it? Nicks his lunch banana.

@Harp Excellent. Couldn’t have provided a better example or visualization myself. :D

I found the cover to an emergency light (it’s orange and cylindrical, almost like it was a caution light cover) and I use it as a pen/ anything holder at my desk now.

@kurtman cool!