THE THREAD!!!

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

There's Leo with the good vibes. [:'(]

Power of nature is unstoppable...


Leo "Apollo11"

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

ORIGINAL: warspite1


Warspite1

I just did...[X(][X(]

and this after he warned you not to do it!! [X(] [:-] [:D]

i guess i better not warn you to stick your tongue into an electrical socket...

Warspite1

AAARRRGGGHHHHH!

Sorry rtrapasso, I didn't understand if you meant I should or shouldn't.....

Well, some people find a lisp very sexy... enjoy your new popularity! [;)]

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso



and this after he warned you not to do it!! [X(] [:-] [:D]

i guess i better not warn you to stick your tongue into an electrical socket...

Warspite1

AAARRRGGGHHHHH!

Sorry rtrapasso, I didn't understand if you meant I should or shouldn't.....

Well, some people find a lisp very sexy... enjoy your new popularity! [;)]

Warspite1

It did Daffy Duck no harm [:)] thufferin, thuckertasch, boy what a thrpread.

[Schanilec]

UND 6 vs. RPI 1. UND 6 vs. Denver U. 0. Ya' baby! UND Fighting Sioux in the Frozen Four.

[sprior]

genuine frontier gibberish.

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: sprior

genuine frontier gibberish.

Warspite1

[:)]

[Schanilec]

Been here all my life (52 of them)............It was three years ago I found out we were free to leave.[:D]

[scott64]

Tech Support | Allentown, PA, USA

(I work engineering support late in the evening.)

Me: “Pennsylvania Support Center. How may I help you?”

Caller: “The cleaning crew just came through my office, and now my mouse doesn’t work. The cursor just jumps all over the screen randomly when I move it. They broke my mouse. I need a new one.”

Me: “You have a SPARCstation with an optical mouse, correct?”

Caller: “Yes, with the cool glass mouse-pad.”

(Old-school optical mice used to require special reflective mouse-pads with grids etched into their surfaces. To increase tracking resolution, the vertical and horizontal grids had slightly different spacing.)

Me: “Did the cleaning crew wipe down your desk?”

Caller: “Yes.”

Me: “Did they move your mouse-pad?”

Caller: “What does that have to do with anything?”

Me: “Did your mouse-pad get rotated? Is the long edge of the mouse-pad now parallel to the edge of your desk?”

Caller: “I really don’t see why that’s relevant. I just want a new mouse!”

Me: “The orientation of the mouse-pad matters. The–”

(The caller cuts me off and starts to yell. I realize that I can actually hear his voice coming from down the hall.)

Caller: “Listen! Just open a ticket and have someone bring me a new mouse. I don’t have time for this. I design chips, so I know what I’m talking about. I probably designed the chip in the phone you’re stuck answering all day!”

(I take off my headset, walk down the hall, and walk into his office up to his desk.)

Caller: “…so don’t try to bulls*** me with, oh. Hold on, someone is in my office.”

(I reach down, and rotate his mouse-pad 90 degrees. I move the mouse, and the cursor happily moves around the screen as expected. I walk out of his office, back down the hall, sit down at my desk, and put my headset back on.)

Caller: *silence*

Me: “Thank you for calling Pennsylvania Support Center. I trust I have resolved your case.”

Caller: *silence*

Me: “You will be receiving your ticket number via email. Thank you.”

Caller: *click*

[X(][:D]

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Dixie

ORIGINAL: PaxMondo

Tithe,

Sheesh, miss a couple of days and you have to back up 3 pages!  Wow!

To ne fair, you missed nothing but squabbling.

No he didn't!

[Chickenboy]

Good afternoon tithe...

[Grollub]

Evening tithe.

Hope you haven't done anything Yuri would do. [:'(]

Hoisting a balcony Gin & Tonic for my THREAD brothers! [:)]

[Grollub]

All is well. Haven't found/seen the dental floss girl yet, though. [:'(]

Mynok, thanks for the tip concerning Patrick Rothfuss. Took a chance and bought both books before I went here. Fantastic storytelling. Have finished the first book, halfway through the second. [:)]

[Grollub]

... and see you some later day. [:)]

[Mynok]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

Has anyone heard (or seen) Nik lately? i am guessing he is moving from Fleattle to Houston (or its vicinity) but it has been 8 days since he's posted on the forum... [:(]

No I haven't.....

[Mynok]

ORIGINAL: Grollub
Mynok, thanks for the tip concerning Patrick Rothfuss. Took a chance and bought both books before I went here. Fantastic storytelling. Have finished the first book, halfway through the second. [:)]

Yep, he's really good.

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

Good evening!


Leo "Apollo11"

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: scott1964

Tech Support | Allentown, PA, USA

(I work engineering support late in the evening.)

Me: “Pennsylvania Support Center. How may I help you?”

Caller: “The cleaning crew just came through my office, and now my mouse doesn’t work. The cursor just jumps all over the screen randomly when I move it. They broke my mouse. I need a new one.”

Me: “You have a SPARCstation with an optical mouse, correct?”

Caller: “Yes, with the cool glass mouse-pad.”

(Old-school optical mice used to require special reflective mouse-pads with grids etched into their surfaces. To increase tracking resolution, the vertical and horizontal grids had slightly different spacing.)

Me: “Did the cleaning crew wipe down your desk?”

Caller: “Yes.”

Me: “Did they move your mouse-pad?”

Caller: “What does that have to do with anything?”

Me: “Did your mouse-pad get rotated? Is the long edge of the mouse-pad now parallel to the edge of your desk?”

Caller: “I really don’t see why that’s relevant. I just want a new mouse!”

Me: “The orientation of the mouse-pad matters. The–”

(The caller cuts me off and starts to yell. I realize that I can actually hear his voice coming from down the hall.)

Caller: “Listen! Just open a ticket and have someone bring me a new mouse. I don’t have time for this. I design chips, so I know what I’m talking about. I probably designed the chip in the phone you’re stuck answering all day!”

(I take off my headset, walk down the hall, and walk into his office up to his desk.)

Caller: “…so don’t try to bulls*** me with, oh. Hold on, someone is in my office.”

(I reach down, and rotate his mouse-pad 90 degrees. I move the mouse, and the cursor happily moves around the screen as expected. I walk out of his office, back down the hall, sit down at my desk, and put my headset back on.)

Caller: *silence*

Me: “Thank you for calling Pennsylvania Support Center. I trust I have resolved your case.”

Caller: *silence*

Me: “You will be receiving your ticket number via email. Thank you.”

Caller: *click*

[X(][:D]

[:D]

BTW, I actually worked on Sun SPARC workstations for few years when I was at university... [;)]


Leo "Apollo11"

[scott64]

[X(][:D][8|]
http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_internet.shtml

[Kwik E Mart]

back from Aruba tithe!!! [&o][&o][&o]

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Kwik E Mart

back from Aruba tithe!!! [&o][&o][&o]

(sigh...)

Well, how was it? [:(]

ETA: [;)]