In the interest of fairness....

[drquuxum.livejournal.com]

I committed my own epic fail the other day.

I was setting up a prof's new Lenovo and demonstrating the fingerprint reader. I said, "you can configure it to authenticate yourself using any of your ten....shit."

It was right when I said the word "ten" that I remembered something...he's missing his left ring finger.

To his credit, he chuckled.

(no subject)

[lolotehe]

When I ask you what the error message is on the screen, I am not asking for your life story. I don't care about how you had a power-outage at home last week; you are at work right now and I only want to know what it says on the screen.

"But I'm not some computer genius."

And I don't expect you to be. I'm not asking you to compare the OSI model to a seven-layer burrito, I'm just asking you to use some elementary schools skills and read what is on the screen right now.

head->brick wall

[margaretc.livejournal.com]

Oh, fun. I'm tangentially part of a web design group that is working to integrate two distinct web models:
- one using an opensource CMS in PHP/MySQL for Apache on Linux, with designers who are artists first and programmers second, and are 3 states away.
- the other in a proprietary program developed in ColdFusion/MSSQL for IIS on Windows, with programmers who wouldn't know art if it bit them in the #*@&. The second part needs to work with a single-sign-on program that is run by our over-arching IT department. They're in the next town over.

The sites need to work seamlessly. By the end of July. Isn't this great??

Duck and roll, please.

[ofstarstuff.livejournal.com]

Sir,

If you happen to look at the RJ11 jack and see melted plastic in there, which feels spongy when you prod it (!!!),

Please to be unplugging it right now.


Your Safety > The Interwebs


Sincerely,

Your very-much-in-the-brink-of-panic DSL tech.

You're who?

[alpha-orionis-v.livejournal.com]

I got a great little call.

My phone rings, and I do my standard greeting, asking for their name. Without so much of pause, the bloke yelled, "I'm the goddamn Batman!" and hung up.



When was the last time you had to go into mute/stop calls from coming in to keep from laughing in customer's ears?