tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555664269648250473.post2148395915473380238..comments2023-12-07T02:42:50.522-06:00Comments on Grit in the Gears: BSODsoubriquethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01151288534629885195noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555664269648250473.post-72525240702479822952011-11-11T15:01:46.652-06:002011-11-11T15:01:46.652-06:00Poor man, I sympathise.
I once had the blue screen...Poor man, I sympathise.<br />I once had the blue screen and that meant cash to the PC repair man.<br />I have twice had to clear all and start again, so I try to keep a list of the billion favourites/bookmarks but often forget.<br /><br />Hope it lives now.Adullamitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15537659871829290071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555664269648250473.post-72788311314117963182011-11-10T12:01:44.417-06:002011-11-10T12:01:44.417-06:00Mr Max's analogy was a guffaw inducer though. ...Mr Max's analogy was a guffaw inducer though. He's a lucky chap, obviously never had a Land-Rover. <br /><br />We don't buy them because they're supremely reliable, we buy them despite their monumentally unreliable qualities. <br /><br />The jokes are too many to mention. Like Irish jokes, they are found elsewhere... but. <br />"What does it mean if there's no oil patches beneath your Land-Rover? <br /><br />It's empty. Refill it."soubriquethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01151288534629885195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555664269648250473.post-84672883743419545742011-11-10T11:55:59.378-06:002011-11-10T11:55:59.378-06:00Okay, all y'alls, I get it.
I'll admit I ...Okay, all y'alls, I get it.<br /><br />I'll admit I have a strange yearning for a macbook air. I'd buy it in a heartbeat if I had a smidge <br />more disposable income. And I've always liked macs, their design, whites and clear bits, compact and uncluttered. There. I've said it. Quick, Nurse! The thorazine!soubriquethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01151288534629885195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555664269648250473.post-40707200783355159202011-11-10T00:03:10.791-06:002011-11-10T00:03:10.791-06:00I was desperately ill. Dying, I think. Oh, I knew ...I was desperately ill. Dying, I think. Oh, I knew what I needed all right. D-D-d-doc-doc-doct...<br /><br />But I couldn't get the word out. I was stubborn. So I got a knife and started operating on myself. I kept passing out. I had moments of lucidity but each time I regained consciousness, I remembered less and less. Still, my salvation was crystal clear: Doc... Docccc... doct....trrrr...arrrrgh.<br /><br />No way I was going to give in to logic. The correct path out of this idiocy was much too expensive. Thank god for free healthcare, eh? PC health care, even. Someday they will find me lying here and everything will be fine again. They'll patch me up until the next crash. I have hopes that Windows 7 will finally be the cure for the pc plague. AaaaaaHahahaha!!!<br /><br />By the by, the first Mac (I have no trouble saying the word) I bought back in 1996 is still working. Slow as hell and never used anymore, but always it worked when I turned it on and never hiccuped and still works fine. The G-3 I bought in 1999 still sidles right along nicely. I used to use it day and night to make advertising tabloids, but it never held it against me. It still works and I can't ever remember a crash. Only the cat uses it now, though, to lie in the sun. Then there was the little bitti mini mac from 2004. Ah, well. You are probably getting the picture. Yeah, still works fine. I write to you on it even now. It doesn't spell all that well anymore. It's successor is on the near horizon. Why? I don't know. It's still faster than I can keep up with, and I've never used enough of it's pitifully tiny gigabyte o' RAM yet to even get it's full attention. But I like new things and I have been saving, so, by god, there will be a new iMac with a ridiculously huge screen on my desk come Christmas. I have another cat that can lay on this one. Cats like to sleep on Macs for some reason. Like to walk on their keyboards, too. Cats don't have any truck with PCs, have you noticed? I have no hopes of it ever actually dying, so I will just give it to another cat. Can't bear to throw it out. Someday, maybe.<br /><br />Arrogant? Holier than thou? I guess. But I was already those things long before I bought a computer of any stripe.<br /><br />Now, why in crap's name do people waste their money buying a Mercedes? Opels are cheaper. Opals? Opuls? If they still make Opels - I try to think of a name you might be familiar with. Ah. Land Rover. Why in the hell would anyone want to buy a super reliable Land Rover when there are TONS and, um, TONNES of cheaper vehicles?<br /><br />I am almost saved up for my next Mac. It has taken me 5 years, but I will have it by this Christmas. In between, I bought 2 HP PCs, a desktop which I don't remember what is in it. Something "X" I think. Old now, yet still new. I've only turned it on a few times. Whenever I think of ditching Macs, I turn it on again.<br /><br />The laptop? Well, it is windows 7 but after almost a year now, it too has only been electrified less than 10 times -- because when I start to tell it what to do, it rudely interrupts me with these advertisements from Norton and makes me click and click and click until I forget where I wanted to go in the first place. Then, magically, hoards of new helpful windows open without my bidding. Some offering to sell me protection and others speaking that special precious PC Chinese I don't understand. Then it tells me not to turn it off until it downloads updates I didn't ask for. So much for Windows 7. But PCs are cheap. In every imaginable sense of the word.<br /><br />D,,,D,,,,Do...doc...docccccc. Ack! Ack!Relax Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051381168322495999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555664269648250473.post-77702588046361098462011-11-09T23:23:09.987-06:002011-11-09T23:23:09.987-06:00I was gong to comment here but if you can't re...I was gong to comment here but if you can't read it then there seems to be no point.Relax Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051381168322495999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555664269648250473.post-7808315147884228542011-11-09T19:50:01.351-06:002011-11-09T19:50:01.351-06:00Weirdly, I've been having trouble accessing my...Weirdly, I've been having trouble accessing my internet today... using back-up verizon card to write this... now WHAT were you trying to tell me this summer about backing up my hard drive ????....heehee. Go ahead and poke me, I can take it.<br /><br />xxxred dirt girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12939283533222061484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555664269648250473.post-33070893914923250292011-11-09T14:26:15.784-06:002011-11-09T14:26:15.784-06:00like you've always told us...:-)like you've always told us...:-)gzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08034777779347889773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555664269648250473.post-66050809717751601922011-11-09T12:07:44.306-06:002011-11-09T12:07:44.306-06:00Yeth.Yeth.soubriquethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01151288534629885195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555664269648250473.post-80320270556857612452011-11-09T12:06:04.309-06:002011-11-09T12:06:04.309-06:00"Pithed frog option". Crack me up."Pithed frog option". Crack me up.bulletholeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13681107556161747976noreply@blogger.com