10 reasons why your computer is better than your girlfriend

Sexy computer1.) She doesn’t talk back to you. At best she beeps or gives you the silent treatment.

2.) She provides you with more information than your girlfriend will ever know.

3.) When you upgrade you know the costs up front.

4.) You can stare at tons of other girls and your computer will never get mad at you.

5.) You can shut her down whenever you get tired of her.

6.) Troubleshooting your computer is much easier than your GF.

7.) Your computer holds many valuable bits of information about your past and still likes you.

8.) You can press your computers buttons without any worry of repercussions.

9.) Your computer won’t sleep with your best friend or cheat on you.

10.) Your computer will cost a lot less than any girlfriend!

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Stranded

Desertisland01One day an Irishman, who had been stranded on a deserted island for over 10 years, saw a speck on the horizon.

He thought to himself, “It’s certainly not a ship

As the speck got closer and closer, he began to rule out even the possibilities of a small boat or a raft.

Suddenly there strode from the surf a figure clad in a black wet suit.  Putting aside the scuba tanks and mask and zipping down the top of the wet suit stood a drop-dead gorgeous blonde!

She walked up to the stunned Irishman and said to him, “Tell me, how long has it been since you’ve had a good cigar?”

“Ten years,”  replied the amazed Irishman

With that, she reached over and unzipped a waterproof pocket on the left sleeve of her wet suit and pulled out a fresh package of cigars and a lighter.

He took a cigar, slowly lit it, and took a long   drag.   “Faith and begorrah,” said the castaway, “that is so good! I’d almost forgotten how great a smoke can be!”

“And how long has it been since you’ve had a drop of good Bushmill’s Irish Whiskey?” asked the blonde.

Trembling, the castaway replied, “Ten years.”

Hearing that, the blonde reached over to her right sleeve, unzipped a pocket there and removed a flask and handed it to him.

He opened the flask and took a long drink. ” ‘Tis nectar of the gods!” shouted the Irishman. ” ‘Tis truly fantastic!!!”

At this point the gorgeous blonde started to slowly unzip the long front of her wet suit, right down the middle. She looked at the trembling man and asked, “And how long has it been since you played around?”

With tears in his eyes, the Irishman fell to his knees and sobbed, “Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Don’t tell me that you’ve got golf clubs in there too!”

Thanks Gene

Bad Bits update

Just to fill you in on some progress in restoring Bad Bits, I’m setting up hosting at Dreamhost.  I’ve got that started and will hopefully be back up and running soon.  I may end up having to start over with new posts.  I’m not sure if I can resurrect what was previously there (I did make an ftp) copy of the files before I canceled service).  But I’m not smart enough to know if that will just reload to the new host or if I’ll have to start over.  Not too big of a deal either way.

Anyway, I did want you all to know that I’m working on it and hopefully it’ll be back online soon.

Parents with computers

From Reddit:

  • My dad’s favorite browser is Mazda Foxfire
  • My step-dad calls it Godzilla Firebox.
  • Nice! My mom is a big fan of Wind Amp.
  • My mom asked to be my friend on MyFace.
  • My Mom genuinely calls the computer the “Googlebox”, she (I think) has no idea what Google is but has heard it associated with computers on the radio. If you ask her what a computer is for she will list 3 things “twittering”, “blogging” and “hotmailing”.  “Twittering” and blogging are, according to her, pretty much the same thing “words on the internet” while “hotmailing” (obviously) means emailing, which is only used to say “Turn on your phone I’m trying to call you”.
  • The Google is a group of geese right?
  • friday my boss tryed to enlarge the picture on my screen the same way he does on his Iphone.
  • It’s 10:30 pm. Phone rings. My dad. “Question: how do you copy a file?”
  • My Dad accidentally turned off my brother’s computer by flicking the power strip off while vacuuming – he calls me in a panic thinking he just deleted my brother’s entire computer, he was afraid to turn it back on – I had to spend 5 minutes telling him that everything was okay, it was cute.
  • Grandpa: “Well, it kept saying something about a firewall so I looked behind the desk but how do I tell if the wall is a firewall?”
  • My mother once called me into the computer room to help her. She was trying to google the name of an author she wanted to look up. Somehow she had navigated to google, then googled the word “google” and was confused because she couldn’t find google.
  • This does not involve a computer, but is related. A few years ago my mom called me and told me the fax machine wasn´t working because it kept “returning” her the letter she was trying to send.

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