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Old 07-12-2008, 07:03 PM   #46
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Think you're teetering on the border between minion and fully-fledged evil genius there Tinny.....
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Old 07-12-2008, 07:16 PM   #47
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They are the sort of tech support calls I get from my neighbors. Although, they aren't usually all that specific. It's mostly "My f**king computer is dead, come over here and find out what's wrong with it!!" Or, "The f**king internet is down, is it down at your house?? No?? Then come over here and find out what's wrong with mine!!"

Sometimes I can fix it, sometimes not so much. But then, when a neighbor buys a "complete computer system" for $300 ... and the motherboard is deader than a doornail, the proprietary replacement costs close to $300, and none of my generic parts will fit .... even I will admit defeat.

However, over the years I have learned to build and repair computers, and even how to run cable for a network and do my own punchdowns. The software, well, that will drive me crazy long before hardware problem will. I hate having to do work-arounds for badly programmed software. Just plain hate it.
Uh...........Do you make housecalls? I'm not TOOO far away........and I"m starting to get pi&%ed at the smarmy remarks about 'parents learning comuters. Like we're brain dead. We were smart enough to raise you little arseholes and in some homes pay for your education. If we have a harder time learning what came so easily to you, its because we were too busy working to support you to learn all the new gadgets as they came along. Sit with us, for cryin' out loud, and take the time to show us, yes over and over again, JUST LIKE WE TOOK THE TIME TO MAKE YOU LEARN YOUR MULTIPLICATION TABLES, etc...until we get it thru our heads. We aren't stupid....we're just learning an entirely new process.
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Old 07-12-2008, 08:28 PM   #48
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Uh...........Do you make housecalls? I'm not TOOO far away........and I"m starting to get pi&%ed at the smarmy remarks about 'parents learning comuters. Like we're brain dead. We were smart enough to raise you little arseholes and in some homes pay for your education. If we have a harder time learning what came so easily to you, its because we were too busy working to support you to learn all the new gadgets as they came along. Sit with us, for cryin' out loud, and take the time to show us, yes over and over again, JUST LIKE WE TOOK THE TIME TO MAKE YOU LEARN YOUR MULTIPLICATION TABLES, etc...until we get it thru our heads. We aren't stupid....we're just learning an entirely new process.
Good way to stop that attitude is to put a hoe in their hands and tell them to chop cotton. Or just hand them a slide ruler and have them multiply some numbers.

I had lightening hit a tree near my house. Knocked out a modem, computer, telephone, and oddly enough my water line. Appears the tree shook so hard with the pipe running among its roots that the pipe broke.
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Old 07-12-2008, 08:29 PM   #49
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Think you're teetering on the border between minion and fully-fledged evil genius there Tinny.....
Hey tinmouse, don't let them jerk your chain!
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Old 07-12-2008, 09:18 PM   #50
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Uh...........Do you make housecalls? I'm not TOOO far away........and I"m starting to get pi&%ed at the smarmy remarks about 'parents learning comuters. Like we're brain dead. We were smart enough to raise you little arseholes and in some homes pay for your education. If we have a harder time learning what came so easily to you, its because we were too busy working to support you to learn all the new gadgets as they came along. Sit with us, for cryin' out loud, and take the time to show us, yes over and over again, JUST LIKE WE TOOK THE TIME TO MAKE YOU LEARN YOUR MULTIPLICATION TABLES, etc...until we get it thru our heads. We aren't stupid....we're just learning an entirely new process.
I never said I didn't think they could learn to use the computer. I just didn't want to be their teacher because at that time I only saw them about once a month. That's too long between lessons. I also wanted to be sure they learned the right way, not my shortcut way. Besides, they had more fun in class than they would have had with me.

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Good way to stop that attitude is to put a hoe in their hands and tell them to chop cotton.
Oh no....the dreaded hoe! Every summer I ended up with blistered hands from that tool of torture. But we never grew cotton, just every other vegetable in the Burpee Seed Catalog.

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Old 07-12-2008, 09:37 PM   #51
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Hey tinmouse, don't let them jerk your chain!

Alas. pshrynk revealed the shocking true behind my inability to successfully achieve world domination. I'm in fact I'm only a few cm high as can be seen in my updated avatar.

That chain makes it damm hard to get around too. I have to keep waiting for my owner to get distracted or fall asleep so I can get to the computer.

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Old 07-12-2008, 10:08 PM   #52
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Do they even make them any more??

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Old 07-12-2008, 10:12 PM   #53
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Old 07-12-2008, 10:21 PM   #54
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Old 07-12-2008, 10:35 PM   #55
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Old 07-12-2008, 10:40 PM   #56
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