Teeny hat.
STAND BACK, GENTLEMAN.
I'VE GOT BALLS TO PUNCH.
THIS WILL FIX. EVERYTHING.
Holy Flying Spaghetti Monster, thanks!
edited 18th Oct '11 11:44:04 PM by SheWhoChewsGum
"If you had to choose, would you save one baby or five old people? What if the baby had a Hitler mustache?" - Yahtzee
Figure of Hourai
I have a desire to murder the person who decided to implement an email system for my school. What this means is that no-one ever bothers telling me things, they just assume that I already saw it. Including bloody lesson timetables. >_<
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Show an affirming flame
(glomps Gummie tightly)
Some day, Gummie, you must tell all of us the secret of your awesomeness. You're enough MOFWs to make a fort!
Charlie Stross's cheerful, optimistic predictions for 2017, part one of three.
This exchange happened on the way to school:
Dad: I need to charge that iPhone up.
Me: ... You mean iPod?
Dad: Yeah, the iPhone. I can't find the charger for it.
Me: That's because I have it.
Dad: Do you? Has Robert (my brother) got one? There's got to be one laying around somewhere.
Me: It's not so much the cable you need. It's the plug. The cable is useless on its own. And I've got the only plug in the house. Now...
Dad: I wonder if Rob has a spare one in his big box of chargers?
Me: -facepalm, complete with head shake-
Decemberist
Hey
Dutch Lesbian
Believe
@ Gummie: Welcome!
@ Raineh: I wish I had something reassuring to say but since my uni has the same thing going all I can tell you is this.
Welcome to Hell
@ Crack: I conclude that parents do not understand technology.
edited 18th Oct '11 11:47:33 PM by StolenByFaeries
"You've got your transmission and your live wire, but your circuit's dead." - Media
Li'l Shardfinder
Oh Crackie...
(hugs)
You can not go to Utah again after you have eaten Utah and have not eaten.
Look, I do love my dad, but sometimes he is just incredibly dense.
Li'l Shardfinder
(hugs Crackie again)
You can not go to Utah again after you have eaten Utah and have not eaten.
Show an affirming flame
That feeling is oddly alien to me, mainly because Dad works in IT and has probably forgotten more about computer science than I'll know. He's also got the Magic Touch, a.k.a. "but I swear it was broken before you showed up!" (We've lampshaded this inversion of the natural order more than once.)
(rests head against Crackie's chest)
Charlie Stross's cheerful, optimistic predictions for 2017, part one of three.
Teeny hat.
Fuck technology! With it's CPU's and it's complex things and it's bluescreens, thinking it's too good for me! That smarmy bastard, 'I see you're trying to sacrifice your computer to a volcano God, do you need some hel-' FUCK YOU CLIPPY, I DON'T PLAY BY YOUR RULES.
"If you had to choose, would you save one baby or five old people? What if the baby had a Hitler mustache?" - Yahtzee
Humph.
Whenever something goes wrong with technology that isn't the computer, he comes to me.
And then doesn't get what I'm trying to explain.
Well, I feel really relived...
edited 18th Oct '11 11:54:23 PM by deathpigeon
Believe
My mum is great with computers - she has a computing degree and has resurrected many of the machines I have killed.
Just don't ask her about the VCR.
Or the radio.
Or alarm clocks.
Or her phone.
For the love of God don't ask her about her phone.
"You've got your transmission and your live wire, but your circuit's dead." - Media
Li'l Shardfinder
(hugs Faeries)
You can not go to Utah again after you have eaten Utah and have not eaten.
Say my dad has got a voicemail:
What I'm really saying: The little symbol on the top of the screen means that there is a voice mail. Quite easy to access. Go onto the main menu, go onto messages, scroll down to voice mails and follow the instructions.
What I may as well be saying: Blah blah blah quantum physics blah blah blah emails from an iPod blah blah blah planets were formed by this and that blah blah blah.
Anyways, enough of my complaining. How are we all?
OOOOO GUMMIE I HAZ FAN ART FOR YOU.
edited 18th Oct '11 11:57:38 PM by ToolsOfDestruction
intellectual rapist
uvula is still swollen
but i gargled myself with some salt water
should be getting better
Li'l Shardfinder
An actual conversation (paraphrased) I had with my mom:
(about the Mac startup chime)
Mom: (something about it playing a song)
Me: It doesn't play a song, it makes a "bong" sound.
Mom: No, it plays a tune...
(I turn on the computer, it very obviously goes "bong")
Mom: That was not a bong...
(facepalm)
You can not go to Utah again after you have eaten Utah and have not eaten.
Teeny hat.
Well then, whip it out, let us see!
... The art. The art.
"If you had to choose, would you save one baby or five old people? What if the baby had a Hitler mustache?" - Yahtzee
Figure of Hourai
One of the emails involved the possibility of money. Now I have today to get the form and tomorrow to hand it in. Damn it, why are you announcing something like that electronically!?
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Can't!
Am at school!
Besides, I whip it out now, I'll get some very strange looks.
edited 19th Oct '11 12:03:18 AM by ToolsOfDestruction
Decemberist
How is everyone?
Dutch Lesbian
Teeny hat.
I'm not sure if I'll be on later!
If you see me floating about, just like me to it.
"If you had to choose, would you save one baby or five old people? What if the baby had a Hitler mustache?" - Yahtzee
Gummie. XD
"You've got your transmission and your live wire, but your circuit's dead." - Media