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27 May 2008

Laugh at my stupididity. [More:]So Mom's settled in for her afternoon nap and the TV is blessedly off and I'm listening to some soothing classical music on my iPod. I decide to check in with EVE Online, maybe mine a bit, move some minerals around and check the nearby regional markets. No sooner do I sign in than my Mac goes CRAZY: windows start opening up, the cursor doesn't respond or else spews gibberish in random fields, I can't force quit to the desktop.

ZOMG!!!! I haz been haxx0red!

I shut the machine off and try to think rationally. OK, maybe it's a keyboard problem. I'll clean the keyboard, since it is kinda grotty. I pry the keys off, blast with compressed air, hit the corner filth with some isopropyl alcohol on a Q-tip. Great. Keyboard is pristine.

Restart.

Chaos. On a grey screen, the mac and windows partitions flicker madly. I can't select anything.

OH NOES OH NOES OH NOES!

OK. Find the manual. Call AppleCare. Call the cavalry. Call the President. Fuck, I don't know. What if all my financial data is compromised? I'll hafta cancel the cards and change the bank account numbers and ....

The manual is in a stack of stuff on a nearby chair. On top of the stack of stuff sleeps a brown retarded cat. In the stack of stuff, on my way to finding the manual, I find...

...another keyboard. The one associated with my mouse. That I'm using right now. So it's plugged in.

And there's a CAT SLEEPING ON TOP OF IT.

Oh.

OH.

I restart. Guess what? Without 20 pounds of brown retarded cat to depress all the keys on the keyboard that I'd forgotten was plugged in, the damn thing works just fine.

*sigh*

*facepalm*

What's the dumbest thing you've done recently?
Ha! That is a funny story, BoP. Glad all is well with the computer.

A few minutes ago I was tearing the place up looking for my cell phone. I was calling it on the landline and cursing and listening for a ring. I was sure it was in the house. It was in my car.

Also today: I have been teaching my dog the stay command. I walk backwards and she stays and then I say "OK" as my release word. As I was walking backwards I ran into a step stool and almost killed myself.
posted by LoriFLA 27 May | 16:54
You haz been catx0red.
posted by JanetLand 27 May | 17:07
How to transform your iPod Nano into a Just Say NO in one easy step.

Note To Self: iPods don't take kindly to bathing.

posted by lonefrontranger 27 May | 17:12
And you have the nerve to call the cat retarded? ; )
posted by Pips 27 May | 17:21
I hear you, Pips. I'm worried that it's catching. Toxodumbasserosis or something.
posted by BitterOldPunk 27 May | 17:39
*snorts*
posted by gomichild 27 May | 18:17
I just love this story...

(toxodumbasserosis: too much catnip, or something : )
posted by Pips 27 May | 18:48
Well, that's the worst part -- I was sober as a judge at the time. Maybe that was the problem...
posted by BitterOldPunk 27 May | 19:12
Hahahahaha. Glad your machine is fine (though rebuild your desktop/defrag - different names depending on operating system just because it sounds like you cold-started and stopped the poor machine twice).
posted by dabitch 28 May | 02:55
help with a broken facebook? || What's your favorite old blues-y song?

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