What else you going to do on a SNOWY, GRAY APRIL DAY besides screw around on email, certainly not work (I'm so burned out). Speaking of emails, I was writing this new dude who sort of reminds me of John Goodman, when in one fat-fingered click, the whole page went blank, yup, an hour's worth of typing. This is one thing, of about a thousand things, I hate about computers and the people who design them. Who sat around an engineering desk, and thought, "I know. Let's put something in the computer where if they accidentally hit these totally random two keys at the same time, they'll lose everything that they typed up. Doesn't that sound cool?" Who is the offical Asshat who came up with the idea? AND, who are the Asshat designers who keep this feature in place?
What if your car worked like computers do? What if it lacked all reliability like the internet/computers do?
You'd open the door, get inside and sit down, turn the key and nothing. The car just didn't FEEL like starting. Or, say you're tooling down the interstate when suddenly the car just slows down to a stop. You're left with nothing to do but shut the car off, along the side of the road, and turn it back on every 15 min. til it feels like it's ready to start again.
My computer's router will do that, just 'cause it feels like it. And I get to merrily waltz over to my main computer on the other side of the house, where the router is hooked up on the floor, sit down on the floor, lay down on my back to get to it, turn the whole thing upside down and around and unplug it, wait for 15 min. then plug it in again. Sometimes 4-5 times.
The other day (and my computer does this at least twice a week), the cursor just sort of disappears acting all lazy and fat, as if it were a sleeping cat refusing to budge. I couldn't see what I typed for several seconds. After cussing at it, getting up and getting coffee ten times, it still was doing it.
Sigh.
Who's this new dude? An engineer/architect from California who works in ND and comes down here frequently on business. He's quite cerebral. And as usual, I'm wondering if like Wyoming Cute Artist/Musician, if I'll ever meet him, or if he's one of hundreds that I have NOT met, who just like the IDEA of meeting, and would rather instead, text/write emails forever. I'll think up a nickname for these kinds of men, in another post.
In the meantime, the sun had better get to shining and stop SNOWING, already. We are SO DONE with the snow!
Stay tuned.
2 comments:
My email account saves my messages that I am writing every few minutes whether I ask it to or not....or were you in something else like a work processing document??
No, I was in Yahoo, which is weird. Sometimes it does save documents. But it appears to only do this randomly.
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