Stomping into my office and making irate demands is not the best way to gain assistance. Being rude makes me want to make things even more difficult for you, which is most likely not the consequence you had in mind.
One person today was so bad that Derek said, “If she comes back again I’m going [...]
I believe it says something about how compatible Microsoft makes their products, that I have to convert my “What’s New in Office 2007″ to an Office 97 – 2003 file, and then open the file in Word 2003 in order to convert it to a pdf to make it available to our users.
Just saying.
And I’m [...]
There are some creepy unattractive guys that come in to use our computers. Since the facility is open to West Virginia residents, we can’t turn ‘em away unless they do something wrong.
But since they’re creepy, (like 27-inch TV guy) we’re often looking for them to do something wrong.
Several years ago, one creepy guy came [...]
I walk out of my office and sitting at one of the back computers is a guy who has the bottom of his shirt pulled up to his chin, and he’s staring at his nipples.
I never fails to amaze me what people think is acceptable to do in a public space.
Finally! The Plumber skit from The Electric Company!
Happiness!
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Happy Fat Tuesday!
Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may die.
Shockingly enough, I’ve been writing in and around this general vicinity for five years now.
As I was writing sporadically even then, and keeping everything in a straight HTML page, here’s the page containing the first three months of posting. Don’t worry, there’s only about six or seven posts there. Not an auspicious start, but [...]
Happy Year of the Boar!
Good luck and prosperity in the coming year!
The Alchemist’s Challenge
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Happy Hallmark-and-FTD-Are-Making-A-Killing Day.
In case you couldn’t guess, I dislike Valentine’s day. Not the idea of it–I think the idea is lovely. The execution, however, leaves a lot to be desired. I see no need to spend $5 on a stupid card and $80 on flowers and whatever else on whatever other material goods you’re being [...]
1. If I’m going to have to relearn a new operating system, why am I not just learning how to use Linux or a Mac?
2. I really HATE the fact that it prompts me any time I want to do things like, say, move files, to confirm that I want to take [...]
To Whom It May Concern:
If you call my grandmother’s cell phone and she does not answer, calling back EVERY TWO MINUTES FOR THE NEXT FIFTEEN MINUTES IS NOT GOING TO MAKE HER PICK UP THE PHONE.
I’m this close the saying, to hell with cell phone etiquette, I’m going to answer the phone and say “SHE’S [...]
While doing laundry, I realized that I had “We Three Kings” running through my head. Only not the whole song, just the dark verse that you probably only know if you were raised Catholic.
Myrrh is mine, its bitter perfume
Breathes of life of gathering gloom
Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying
Sealed in the stone-cold tomb
As I type I am installing MS Vista onto my work laptop (the one that’s been a PITA since day one.)
I’ve become comfortable enough with Office 2007 to say that as different as it is it’s not the horrific nightmare I was expecting.
We’ll see how Vista goes.
ADDENDUM the First
Not impressed so far. Couldn’t figure out [...]
That’s IT. That’s ENOUGH already. Really.
No more bad news. I mean it.
Otherwise I’m going to just hide in my basement and stop talking to people.
Got an interesting question this morning:
“Can I print out my voice mail messages?”
How does that go? “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic?”
You’d definitely need magic to be able to accomplish that one.
(You’re lucky–I skipped a rant about why this is completely impossible with our current technology.)
It’s almost 8:30 and it’s 0 degrees F. We’re waiting for my Dad to come by to jump start our car, so we can go buy a new battery.
Yup.
It’s Monday.
When The Departed first came out, Michael and I were in the middle of getting the house ready for my grandmother to move in, so we didn’t make it to see any movies for about three months, so I was pleased to see that because of the Oscars, the local theaters brought back [...]
They finally have a release date for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
I’m torn as to whether I want to pre-order it or not. I didn’t last time, but ended up buying a copy the first day it went on sale (but not at a midnight sale thank you) and reading the whole thing in [...]
Guess with Pantheon of Gods I should be worshiping…
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