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Computers Are So Rude June 8, 2008

Posted by carpebanana in : Ramblings , trackback

At least, ours is.

I have the explorer browser going. Every now and then I hit the wrong key and bing! it pops open a new tab, labelled in large letters: YOU’VE OPENED A NEW TAB! I always read this as if it said it aloud in the same tone Fezzik uses when he says, “You just wiggled your finger! That’s wonderful!” I like to think I have bigger accomplishments during the day.

And then Thursday the old printer bit the dust. Devastatingly set to work immediately on replacing it with some fancy contraption with 36 buttons (as compared to 2 on the old one) and the whole thing is intimidating looking. I think he told me the instruction manual (which, in a clever move to sell more printer ink, you have to print out yourself) runs to 286 pages. No chance in this life of me bothering with those instructions. I will just take what my brother calls The Intuitive Approach.

So, DH was trying to Conquer the Learning Curve on this new toy of his by scanning things ranging from dollar bills to postage stamps to a photo of Miss Language she gave him back when she was 4 and looking at them under mega-pixel magnification. But he walked away and left something up. I Xd off (does everyone use that word or just the Bananas? anyhow, I closed) the window that was up for the Big Printer and it indignantly popped up one of these boxes computers do when they feel you do not recognize the seriousness of the work they are trying to do: YOU TRIED TO CLOSE THE PROGRAM. EVENTS HAVE OCCURRED. DO YOU WISH TO VIEW THEM?

Events have occurred, my foot. You’re a printer. Just close when I tell you to.

Comments»

1. Dapoppins - June 8, 2008

Your printer is trying to take over the world, I am sure of it.

2. Cristina - June 9, 2008

Hahahahaha! Oh thank you! I needed a laugh. And our printer is dying too, but we’ve decided to put it on life support and hope for a miracle. ;-)

Peace and Laughter!

3. Cathy5kids - June 21, 2008

“I will just take what my brother calls The Intuitive Approach.” ROTFL, my favorite type of approach!

I actually (as Monk would say) LOLed out loud while reading this.