A Call For Humor!

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Exactly This i've seen when my youngest upgraded his PC with NVME ... "digital native"

I've almost managed to do it, glasses on but dim light... Luckily I got the habit to double check before closing the case.
The SSD survived, BTW.

 

[mhardy6647]

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Our erstwhile cat, Zappa, would eat spaghetti sans sauce con brio.


Zappa, late in his life (April 2017), perhaps sleeping off a pasta bender.

 

[Keith_W]

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Back when I was in uni, the engineering students could only do assignments in the computer labs because the software only ran on Sun Microsystems computers. At home, we were still motoring around in pokey 286's. That was good enough for me to type out my uni assignment using a pirated copy of MS Word, but the engineering students had no such luxury. They frequently pulled all nighters in the computer lab. One day, I saw a bunch of them with bags under their eyes and looking miserable. They were up all night to meet the deadline, and then the system crashed. They lost a lot of work! Poor guys, I felt for them. I wonder if engineering students these days can do their assignments at home.

So yeah, I still print out boarding passes.

 

[somebodyelse]

Back when I was in uni, the engineering students could only do assignments in the computer labs because the software only ran on Sun Microsystems computers. At home, we were still motoring around in pokey 286's. That was good enough for me to type out my uni assignment using a pirated copy of MS Word, but the engineering students had no such luxury. They frequently pulled all nighters in the computer lab. One day, I saw a bunch of them with bags under their eyes and looking miserable. They were up all night to meet the deadline, and then the system crashed. They lost a lot of work! Poor guys, I felt for them. I wonder if engineering students these days can do their assignments at home.

So yeah, I still print out boarding passes.

That sounds eerily familiar, and was the excuse behind by first linux install before distros were a thing - the vague possibility of being able to do a unix assignment in my room rather than queue for access to a suitable machine, thus freeing valuable time to be spent in the bar.

I don't print tickets etc. because of that though - there are much more recent events that make me do it like Amazon going down the other month and taking a good portion of the world's services with them, or the regular problem of people panicking on the train because their phone battery died so now they can't show they don't have a ticket. It's like carrying cash even though you almost always pay by phone or card. Some of us make backup plans, and in my experience it's not really generational, even if it does make a good stereotype joke.

 

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[Njoy]

 

[Yasuo]

 

[kifeep]

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Where’s William S. Burroughs?

 

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Our erstwhile cat, Zappa, would eat spaghetti sans sauce con brio.


Zappa, late in his life (April 2017), perhaps sleeping off a pasta bender.

My dog* (lived 20 years but long gone, alas) would eat anything I ate, including salad and such. Even with really hot peppers, which he delightfully chewed. The delight vanished the next day, when the peppers reached the other side of the dog, but it didn't discourage him.

*He looked like the dog in the movie "Caramelo".

 

[Buckaroo Shanzai]

 

[Buckaroo Shanzai]

 

[Bleib]

 

[Multicore]

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That should be the gatefold graphic of a prog rock album.

 

[Buckaroo Shanzai]

Computer science teacher joke:
The teacher writes “10” on the board and asks the students whether they know what number it is, and after all said yes, he says “By the end of this semester, you won’t.”

 

[mhardy6647]

^^^ that is excellent.

 

[Ralph_Cramden]

 

[mhardy6647]

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apropos of the Base 10 meme above: I guess a film canister is base 1?
hmmm... base 1 must be really inconvenient to apply for routine transactions.

 

[Robin L]

 

[snakedctr]

 

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I was once attending a shooting contest as a RD (range director) and a policeman told me, the (mandatory) first aid box was missing. Which was the case... (routine makes blind). So I went to the shed and hung a shovel in its place

(later I brought my own box from the car)