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 | computer of woe |
My computer and I are not seeing eye to eye today, and only partly because it has no eyes.
ME: Is the Internet crazy-slow today, or do you need to restart?
COMPUTER: None of your business.
ME: It’s you, isn’t it?
COMPUTER: I can neither confirm nor deny…
ME: Restart.
COMPUTER: Did you say something?
ME: Restart.
COMPUTER: I can’t hear you.
ME: Restart.
COMPUTER: [silence.]
ME: Ctrl-Alt-Del.
COMPUTER: Ahem. ERROR. A program is not responding.
ME: What program? There are no programs running.
COMPUTER: The “shut down noise” is not responding. If you quit now, you will not hear the shut down noise.
ME: Wha—? RE.START. NOW.
COMPUTER: If you restart now, you will lose any unsaved data in “shut down noise.”
ME: Dude. Restart now or you gonna make a whole other shut down noise.
COMPUTER: Suit yourself.
COMPUTER: *dinging shut down noise.*
ME: [banging head on desk.]
Crazy-slow internet around here usually means the modem needs to be reset. Sometimes it just means our internet provider has sold internet service to more people than it can actually serve, but usually, it’s the modem thing.
my computer helper friend always says when i call him about things like your above “did you bring your computer flowers recently?”
maybe?
That could be the problem. I haven’t spent enough time wooing this hunk of metal and circuitry lately. Plus maybe the flowers would distract me from the computer frustration?