Back when I worked tech support, one customer called in saying that she couldn’t dial in to the internet on her notebook PC. Turned out that she was in a canoe in the middle of a lake, with 100 25 foot extension cords connecting her PC to her phone line. She didn’t clue in to the fact that if she had to bypass the extension cords to call tech support, that the computer might not have been the issue.
Also, if your spouse starts referring to you as a “program”, that would be a cue to step far away from that relationship.
There was a joke about two astronauts on the moon looking down at a woman laying on the ground the caption was “This is Alice Cramden”, I sent it to my list of joke’s I spent the rest of the day explaining the joke to all the younger people who had never seen the Honeymooner’s TV program.
People unclear of the concept… Woman came into the store where I do a little part-time and said she needed to purchase some email paper. Asked where to find it.
This is why, when giving technical support in either a professional or friendly capacity, you need to ask specific questions and insist upon clear answers. Otherwize you get this sort of error.
Gawd, my sister has Alexa on her Kindle, and we can hardly have a conversation. . .Alexa keeps butting in, and my sister has to keep telling her (it?) to butt out. . .
OK, let me see if I’ve got it straight here. Woman gets into boat with man. Man rows boat while woman plays on smartphone. Man continues rowing the boat. Woman feels threatened by man. Why? He’s still rowing the boat.
“Well, I’m just stuck in one spot”, and if you look at the man, he’s holding one oar thus the “one spot” comment. Turns out he is the problem and the advice from tech is sorta correct.
COVID-19 has now killed over a million Americans. For comparison:
Civil War: ~620,000
Great Chicago fire: ~300
Peshtigo fire: ~2,000
WW1: 116,516
Spanish flu: ~675,000
Tulsa race massacre: ~300
Pearl Harbor: 2,403
WW2: 418,500
Korean War: 33,686
Vietnam War: 58,220
Oklahoma City bombing: 168
9/11: 2,977
Afghan War: 6,301
So the wealthiest, most technologically advanced nation in human history, with 4% of the world’s population, has racked up 16% of its COVID deaths.
Why? Or, more pertinently, who?
How many of those million American corpses would be alive today if the former guy had shown awareness, concern, moral courage, and real leadership by treating the pandemic as a serious, non-partisan public-health matter instead of trivializing, minimizing, and politicizing it? Just because HE was getting the best medical care money could buy (at taxpayer expense) didn’t mean everybody else was.
Granted, his monumental ignorance, arrogance, intransigence, and narcissism don’t amount to premeditated murder, but there’s a convincing case to be made for contributory negligence on a massive scale. It’s like applauding enthusiastically while the kids next door take turns throwing lighted matches on a pile of oily rags.
Reminds me, for some combative reason, of a scene in “Snow Crash”, one of the first cyberpunk novels, where the protagonist has to disengage temporarily from a firefight because the software on his gunboat needs to be remotely upgraded. By Neal Stephenson, always a classic.
C almost 3 years ago
One of these days, Alice
HidariMak almost 3 years ago
Back when I worked tech support, one customer called in saying that she couldn’t dial in to the internet on her notebook PC. Turned out that she was in a canoe in the middle of a lake, with 100 25 foot extension cords connecting her PC to her phone line. She didn’t clue in to the fact that if she had to bypass the extension cords to call tech support, that the computer might not have been the issue.
Also, if your spouse starts referring to you as a “program”, that would be a cue to step far away from that relationship.
Bilan almost 3 years ago
Does she realize that if he gets out of the boat, she has to be the cpu (canoe power utility)?
nicka93 almost 3 years ago
There was a joke about two astronauts on the moon looking down at a woman laying on the ground the caption was “This is Alice Cramden”, I sent it to my list of joke’s I spent the rest of the day explaining the joke to all the younger people who had never seen the Honeymooner’s TV program.
jvo almost 3 years ago
Hey, Tech support gave good advice, the best way to get off a sandbank is to lighten the load.
sandpiper almost 3 years ago
She says this to a guy holding 2 six foot oars. Chancy
Jason Allen almost 3 years ago
She seems like someone who experiences a lot of PEBCAK errors.
TracyKlujian almost 3 years ago
I’m so old I remember when the threat of domestic violence was thought to be funny.
well-i-never almost 3 years ago
Just reboat.
LawrenceS almost 3 years ago
People unclear of the concept… Woman came into the store where I do a little part-time and said she needed to purchase some email paper. Asked where to find it.
dflak almost 3 years ago
People interpret what they hear in the way they want to hear it.
mindjob almost 3 years ago
How lucky she is to find and English-speaking tech support person after waiting less than a century
Twelve Badgers in a Suit Premium Member almost 3 years ago
This is why, when giving technical support in either a professional or friendly capacity, you need to ask specific questions and insist upon clear answers. Otherwize you get this sort of error.
1953Baby almost 3 years ago
Gawd, my sister has Alexa on her Kindle, and we can hardly have a conversation. . .Alexa keeps butting in, and my sister has to keep telling her (it?) to butt out. . .
preacherman Premium Member almost 3 years ago
OK, let me see if I’ve got it straight here. Woman gets into boat with man. Man rows boat while woman plays on smartphone. Man continues rowing the boat. Woman feels threatened by man. Why? He’s still rowing the boat.
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Another operator malfunction. I suppose it’s a good thing Tech Support didn’t tell her reboot.
A Hip loving Canadian... almost 3 years ago
“Well, I’m just stuck in one spot”, and if you look at the man, he’s holding one oar thus the “one spot” comment. Turns out he is the problem and the advice from tech is sorta correct.
Richard S Russell Premium Member almost 3 years ago
A Grim Milestone
COVID-19 has now killed over a million Americans. For comparison:
Civil War: ~620,000
Great Chicago fire: ~300
Peshtigo fire: ~2,000
WW1: 116,516
Spanish flu: ~675,000
Tulsa race massacre: ~300
Pearl Harbor: 2,403
WW2: 418,500
Korean War: 33,686
Vietnam War: 58,220
Oklahoma City bombing: 168
9/11: 2,977
Afghan War: 6,301
So the wealthiest, most technologically advanced nation in human history, with 4% of the world’s population, has racked up 16% of its COVID deaths.
Why? Or, more pertinently, who?
How many of those million American corpses would be alive today if the former guy had shown awareness, concern, moral courage, and real leadership by treating the pandemic as a serious, non-partisan public-health matter instead of trivializing, minimizing, and politicizing it? Just because HE was getting the best medical care money could buy (at taxpayer expense) didn’t mean everybody else was.
Granted, his monumental ignorance, arrogance, intransigence, and narcissism don’t amount to premeditated murder, but there’s a convincing case to be made for contributory negligence on a massive scale. It’s like applauding enthusiastically while the kids next door take turns throwing lighted matches on a pile of oily rags.
brick10 almost 3 years ago
Like she’s going to row? HA!
mistercatworks almost 3 years ago
Reminds me, for some combative reason, of a scene in “Snow Crash”, one of the first cyberpunk novels, where the protagonist has to disengage temporarily from a firefight because the software on his gunboat needs to be remotely upgraded. By Neal Stephenson, always a classic.
LHGG SigmaKiller almost 3 years ago
Uhhh I dont get it. If i did higher score. 6/10
198.23.5.11 almost 3 years ago
I called tech support once and found myself talking to a 7-foot-tall guy named Punjab.
And Justice Jackson would be perfectly justified in saying“Beam me up,Scotty,there’s no intelligent life in this sector”.
Pisces almost 3 years ago
LOL ………….. Good one, Wiley!
smartty cat almost 3 years ago
what happens if the architect of the program you are using lives on a lake with its own boat, drown him as well?
keenanthelibrarian almost 3 years ago
Sounds reasonable …