Thread "Ever done anything crazy with your computer?" in forum "Comic Talk and General Discussion *"

Posted at 6:10PM, Oct. 25, 2007

I dropped the Yellow Pages on my computer desk and it shorted my power cables. :)

Posted at 7:10PM, Oct. 25, 2007

I just remembered an amazingly stupid thing I did once! A small thing, but moronic:

I was installing a new hard drive in my back-up machine… But the thing is, I was wearing a big thick pure wool jumper, woollen fingerless gloves, a big fluffy hat made out of sheep fur, AND stroking a cat at the same time.

…that's a really good way to F**k your hard drives… Which is what it did. A 250 gig drive with about 100 gig of all my backup stuff was rendered completely inaccessible. It took me a while to realise that I must have spiked it or something with that perfect static generating gear on.

A friend of a friend had a powerful data recovery program and I was able to get it all back after a few days of trying, but I'll never make that mistake again. SO STOOPID >_<

Posted at 7:10PM, Oct. 25, 2007

Well, I've spilled drinks on my keyboards an embarrassing number of times…

Posted at 8:10PM, Oct. 25, 2007

I took an old hard drive fishing one time. Didn't catch a thing with it, either!

Posted at 8:10PM, Oct. 25, 2007

I take the platers out of dead hard drives and make frisbees and shurikens out of them. Once when I was cutting one up. It shattered and put a piece through my hand.
Yes, it did hurt just like getting stabbed. I should know since I got stabbed once too.

Posted at 5:10AM, Oct. 26, 2007

This is going to be a hard one…. let me see… I cussed at it. slaped it… abused it…. froze it a few times… downloaded a few million songs onto it. and the wierd thing is…. i talk to it! yes…. i talk to the computer.

Posted at 8:10AM, Oct. 26, 2007

This is going to be a hard one…. let me see… I cussed at it. slaped it… abused it…. froze it a few times… downloaded a few million songs onto it. and the wierd thing is…. i talk to it! yes…. i talk to the computer.

For some reason that last point doesn't surprise me.

Posted at 10:10AM, Oct. 26, 2007

I use the cd rom as a drink holder

Posted at 6:10PM, Oct. 26, 2007

on my old microsoft '95 model I tried to open as many programs I could until it crashed. it's fun for the whole family!

Posted at 7:10AM, Oct. 27, 2007

I used to hang stuff from my webcam. Then the little clasp broke. :(

Posted at 9:10PM, Oct. 27, 2007

Back when personal computers were new and not connected to the world I had a Texas Instruments and remember typing over 100 lines from this stupid book just to watch a dumbass graphic called "Mr. Bojangles" do jumping jacks on the freakin' screen. For my little child heart at the time I thought it was the coolest thing in the world and well worth the amount of time sitting there typing each line…go to this line…do this…repeat…

As I look back at it…
I was retarded.

Posted at 10:10PM, Oct. 27, 2007

A friend of a friend had a powerful data recovery program and I was able to get it all back after a few days of trying, but I'll never make that mistake again. SO STOOPID >_<

Could you name the software? I might find myself in dire need of it.

My computer and I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die…

That's funny. I once had a man in life support in Reno with my computer until someone shot him.

Posted at 3:10AM, Oct. 28, 2007

My computer and I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die…
That's funny. I once had a man in life support in Reno with my computer until someone shot him.

Whoa, that was you? Sorry about that… we were bored.

Posted at 9:10AM, Oct. 28, 2007

It was funny as Hell though…

Posted at 12:10PM, Oct. 28, 2007

My computer and I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die…
That's funny. I once had a man in life support in Reno with my computer until someone shot him.
Whoa, that was you? Sorry about that… we were bored.

I was going to steal his wallet anyway.

Posted at 6:10AM, Oct. 29, 2007

I was wearing a big thick pure wool jumper, woollen fingerless gloves, a big fluffy hat made out of sheep fur, AND stroking a cat at the same time.

…why would you do all of those things at the same time, even without having the opportunity to destroy your hard drives? i kinda wanna see what this looked like. :P

anyway, i've had some awesome fun times with the first version of this computer. poor menchi's case was too small at first (about six years ago now), so day in and day out i would run my comp with the side panel off and the powersupply out and sitting on the top of the case. this opened many doors for my fellow nerdfriends to come around and poke inside my case while i was working on stuff. sooner or later, i eventually had to replace the CPU fan twice from my friends poking pencils into it to hear the "bzzzzzzzzzzz". after two cpu fans, two different power supplies and a generic case fan all busted, i eventually settled for taking the big box fan from the corner of my room and leaning my open computer against it. this is whats known as "ghetto cooling."
after that i got a new case.

-snuggles computer-

also, you know what else is fun? taking a professional-grade air compressor to your comp's heatsink after three years of constant dust collecting… was a bit hard to breathe for a day or two after that.