Thou shalt not hit on the tech.

[kirolee.livejournal.com]

Occasionally I'll tech support a computer for free. Usually only family, friends and neighbors in the apt building. (Though I do accept pizza and a bit of access time if they have high speed.)

The neighbor down the hallway, (who needs to bathe big time(I needed a gas mask.)) had her modem driver go bad. Don't really know what happened, but a re-install of the driver and a new anti-virus program fixed it. Though I also did a nuke-from-orbit re-install of XP.

The bad part is, the couple's 45 year old friend, decided to hit on 27 year old me. I will no longer help them again without pay.

Moral of the story, don't hit on the tech. It won't work if she doesn't outright slap you.

(Good thing I edited before I posted. All my sentences ended with a semi-colon.)

Comments

[mattcaron.livejournal.com]

I use nested parens all the time. I can parse it just fine, but it drives my poor mother nuts.

On another note, I've never understood why semicolon was chosen as a statement terminator.. I mean, it's not like period is used for anything else*.


* = Okay, it is sometimes used as a concatenation operator, but so is +...

[kizayaen.livejournal.com]

It's also used in things like VB and vbscript where you use it to refer to object.method. I understand that C's not like this, but since we're talking about nested parenthesis in general, not strictly C...

[mattcaron.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I had monetarily forgotten about that, actually. I've been doing PHP too long, which uses $obj->function().. and then I realized my mistake in posting this when I wrote people.count() out of reflex from playing w/ C#...

[kizayaen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've been working with object->function() conventions myself a lot lately.