Happy Summer Solstice! If you saw my husband’s post in
place of what was supposed to be the Friday edition, you know I was having
some difficulty with my computer. My computer would shut itself down at
randomly chosen times. Sometimes even in the middle of me doing something.
After much thought and consideration, Hubby decided it was not a broken
Internet, rather an overheating computer. He suggested cleaning off my
desk…
I don’t think it’s messy, I just think I think I need a
bigger one. And by the way, the Internet has been broken before; I don’t
care what anyone says.
Annoying Internet Memes
To be perfectly honest, when I first came across this
article, I had to look up the word meme. I’m gonna be nice, and save you
the trouble.
Meme:
an idea, behavior, style,
or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture
Now that you know what
it means,
Cracked.com has yet again given us this delightful list of
The
9 Most Obnoxious Memes to Ever Escape the Web. If you aren’t
aware of at least ONE of these little gems, you do not have the Internet.
Or, your Internet is broken. To fix your Internet, or to get the Internet
if you don’t already have it,
CLICK HERE.
By the way, there is no
chin under Chuck Norris’ beard; there is only another fist!
Tech Support
Sometimes people give a lot of crap to the guys and
girls who fix their computers. Sometimes they deserve it, and sometimes…
people are just idiots. Here are some examples from
TechTales.com:
I work as
a tech in education. Be weary of who is teaching you. They are not as
smart as the letters after their name say.
So I get a call from a visiting teacher that the monitor is broken in
the classroom. So I go over to see what the issue is, expecting maybe a
power cord or plug is loose.
So I get there, and the monitor on switch light is on, but the screen is
black. I look down at the desktop and turn on the computer.
I walk away and tell him I fixed the monitor.
User
calls up and says her delete key is sticky and always has been since she
got the machine. She has the laptop, so the thought that runs through my
head is she spilled something on it and mucked up the keyboard. Of
course the warranty ran out several months ago. If it really is a
manufacturing defect, I m going to be ticked off that it wasn’t brought
to my attention earlier.
I grab a bottle of rubbing alcohol and a few Q-tips and head on down.
She demonstrates the problem for me by pulling up Word and typing in a
little sentence. Then she hits the delete key and nothing happens. Only
She’s at the end of the sentence. Backspace works to the left of the
cursor and delete works to the right. Being at the end of the sentence,
there is nothing to the right of the cursor!
I point this out to her and go on my merry way. Normally I only have one
shaker of martinis in an evening, but tonight I think I need two. Either
that or they have to be a LOT stronger.
Was
approached by a teacher in one of the schools I work in. "My computer is
broken. The thingy on the you know isn't working."
Took 4 minutes (and 500 pounds of steam escaping through my ears) to
discover the default homepage on IE had been changed. Nothing else was
wrong with her "broken" computer.
