Not so much a rant as a WTF?

[jenaiabird.livejournal.com]

Sometimes you just never know what you're going to encounter on a user's machine... for me... it was a heart-attack.

A user shipped their laptop up from one of our out-of-state offices reporting it wouldn't boot up. So I threw it on the dock station, booted it up. It went through chkdsk and restarted... and nothing. i powered if off, restarted it, nothing. powered it off, restarted it, chkdsk... i left it alone to do other things.

eventually Windows started to load and the network login came up. Entered user's creds and turned away from the machine to grab a clipboard... and when i turned around here was their desktop:





ok, I have a pretty heavy (but not debilitating) case of Ophidiophobia (fear of snakes), so to turn around to this... yeah... good thing my chair's on wheels...

*shudder*

Comments

[photosinensis.livejournal.com]

Could someone post a text description? The OP's ophidiophobia may not be debilitating, but mine is. Insert your Snakes on a Plane joke here.

[sarahofcroydon.livejournal.com]

It's a desktop image of an enormous snake (presumably a python? *has no idea*) caught under a fence with its mouth wide open, and also looking like it ate recently. I hope that wasn't too graphic. :( Maybe I'm missing something, but that's freaky enough for me!
If it was a spider, I'd be asking for text too.

[mynameisnotreal.livejournal.com]

14 foot python. Dead. It had slipped into a farm and eaten an impala. When it left, it was now bigger and when it touched the electric fence, it got zapped. It turned to bite what ever was zapping it and got hung up. It died on the fence.

http://archive.dailypicture.net/south_african_rock_python_snake_killed_in_electric_fence.htm

[nem0.livejournal.com]

Same here. That's a big nasty snake, but it doesn't make me want to blurt out a string of curse words and frantically mash CTRL+W until it goes away.

That and medical images of injured eyes.

Oh god, is this going to turn into a gross out thread now? I should have kept my typing fingers out of this.

[meijhen.livejournal.com]

AWWWW, poor snake :(

Speaking of animals on desktops.

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

I once worked on a laptop belonging to a doctor. Right there on the desktop, in the middle of the screen, away from all the other icons, was "horse.mpg"

Yeah, it was exactly what you're thinking (and you have a very very dirty mind!)

Woman. Horse. Giddyup.

So, when he picked the laptop up, he asked us if we watched the movie and offered to show it to us again.

His excuse was that he keeps it around to show to other doctors. They love nothing more than seeing people abusing their bodily openings.

[melstav]

Ohh..

Impala as in the animal. Not Impala as in the Chevy.

And here, I thought you were being silly

[captpackrat.livejournal.com]

Giant snakes aren't that bad. Giant spiders on the other hand....

Re: Speaking of animals on desktops.

[sarahofcroydon.livejournal.com]

DDDDDDD8 You'd think a doctor of all people would know about appropriate behaviour. Bloody hell. I hope he wasn't a gyno.

Re: Speaking of animals on desktops.

[jecook]

*dies laughing*

I realize that it's sick and wrong, but at the same time, I find it screamingly funny. Especially if the Dr. is an OBY-GYN.


Then, it could be the Gosling's talking- I've had a rough day, and I poured probably 8 shots worth into a 52 oz Quik-Trip cup with Coke in it...

[sgt-easton.livejournal.com]

...although that things looks like it could eat the Chevy if it wanted too.

[sgt-easton.livejournal.com]

We had to deal with these things when I was in the Middle East called Camel Spiders. Due to your fear, I won't post pictures, so if you're curious, you can look them up on your own.

I had to stomp on one twice with my boot to get it to stay down...

[manuka.livejournal.com]

might improve the chevy.

Re: Speaking of animals on desktops.

[spacebird.livejournal.com]

That is EXACTLY what I was thinking. This is why I love the other people around here.

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

Rumour has it they are what inspired the writer of Aliens...
not an unreasonable assumption since he was working as a contractor of some sort in that general geographical area at the time he was writing it.

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

I dunno, but like Aliens vs Predator, if they interbreed we

all

lose!

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

Wetas get me (http://weta.boarsnest.net/gallery.htm) (link to groooosss pics). Fucking ugliest insect evah (although I understand the spider phobia is pretty bad if you have it).

Re: Speaking of animals on desktops.

[azurelunatic]

My crowd has a Thanksgiving tradition of watching a 20-some second clip of a guy setting his pubic hair on fire and then realizing how very bad a decision that was. It gets funnier every time.

[jenaiabird.livejournal.com]

don't feel so bad. i actually rented and tried to watch SoaP, and made it up to them slithering under the seats... had a major freak-out and turned off the TV.

that's why i put it under a cut... didn't think to include description; will remember for next time!

now see, Spiders I don't mind. mostly. unless they're inside the car while i'm driving and appear out of no where. then, accidents nearly happen :(

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

Me, I'd go with an orbital strike...[what is this 'over-kill' you speak of?]

Re: Over-Kill"

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

Niiice...WMD Sundae.. but I point out a minor problem with that. While you'd probably wipe out most of the ones with the zone of complete destruction, we are talking about a pair of species that can survive temperatures up to 400 degrees, or down to being frozen in a block of ice at minus 80 and a radiation flux that would kill just about anything else in a matter of seconds.

Plus, I didn't say how big an orbital strike (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=elKG4yJi_aU).

Re: Speaking of animals on desktops.

[jokergirl.livejournal.com]

Well... doctors see about every kind of abuse to bodily orifices in the ER, according to personal accounts. You start keeping a weirdness list after a while.

Kind of like we do with foot pedal and cupholder, but a lot less family-friendly.

;)

[jokergirl.livejournal.com]

I say we pull out and nuke them from orbit. Only way to be sure.

[duality.livejournal.com]

I'm so bad about spiders kizayaen and I have termed my reactions "arachnoleptic fits".

Re: Speaking of animals on desktops.

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

I'm not buying it... if he's asking random tech support flunkies, it's probably that he gets his rocks off on making other people squirm.

[jecook]

*awards you 50 gold coins*

Re: Speaking of animals on desktops.

[muddyroad.livejournal.com]

The messageboards in the Student Doctor Network forums are CHOCK FULL of this stuff. Eg. "things I learn from my patients" = Darwin award candidates right there.

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=257985

(Read this stuff in your spare time, it's fun!!)

Re: Over-Kill"

[jecook]

That reminds me- I need to make up a spreadsheet or something that'll tell me how much kinetic energy a 2500 pound car going 85 mph has if it comes to a dead stop in the space of 5 feet.

(and emphasis on "dead stop"- the event would definately not be survivable by any means.)