This one is completely a result of my nightlong battles with the remains of my computer as I tried to retrieve my files. Luckily, I've managed to save everything and life can return to normal more or less with properly coloured updates and real columns for you guys to read courtesy of Photoshop 7.0 and my old computer from 1997 ( I'm amazed the old thing actually would load. ). For the greater part of the night I was doing the exact same thing as Jerry there. The only difference is while he has body armor, I had none and while he's almost intelligent, I was the computer programmers equivalent of a chimp hopping up and down on his computer chair flinging poo at the monitor and poking it with my finger (Actually, a chimp probably would have been smart enough to know when to say the hell with it and find someone else to do it. ). But all in all, it's been an enlightening experience. Mostly because whereas before I told you all that your computers probably plan on killing you based on personal opinion and a vague suspicion, I now have complete total proof and assurance that this is indeed the case. At least for me. My computer is trying to make it look like an accident by causing me a heart attack. I spent a great portion of last night staring at the screen as it would freeze, slowly start moving again and then come up with an incomprehensible error message such as "error: File Dat FAT32 has encountered a interpretive anomaly in data processes and needs to close while you drink water from the opposite side of a glass." And while I may have added that part about water drinking, it certainly was close to the truth. I felt that the slightest hiccup could cause my computer to suddenly hack into the pentagon's missile systems and launch a ICBM at Jamaica ( Who probably would just be upset that their beaches were going to be closed for a while). But I did get through the night and got the hard drives from one computer into another and as far as I know there weren't any nuclear weapons launched at small island nations anywhere. Although it's possible they were, and my local news station is just too preoccupied with the Electrical Generator Crisis of 2008 to bother letting anyone know. Because right now, I'm still lucking out by actually having power and everyone else around here is a bit more concerned about being able to have food or showers.
I'm just considering how valuable it might be to have a chimp around to fix my computers next time this happens.
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