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  • From: James Lance <james AT thelances.net>
  • To: Thomas Graham <lkthomashk AT yahoo.com.hk>, nealbirch <nealbirch AT attbi.com>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] totally off topic... but funny
  • Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 11:49:42 -0700

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I have visions of National Lampoons Christmas Vacation...

Cat chews on power cable and shorts the circut. Soon there is charred cat.

James

On Wednesday 18 December 2002 08:56 am, Thomas Graham wrote:
> cigars? I want it, actually, I never try one before,
> wahahaha
> CAT ? does your dog chewed your optical fiber cable ?
> or the animal chewed the power cable and burn
> themseleves, LOL...
>
> --- nealbirch <nealbirch AT attbi.com> wrote: > Well,
> it's a week unemployed today... So I am doing
>
> > some minor free
> > lance consulting type stuff.
> >
> > Yesterday I did some in home repair for a guy a
> > know, he wanted to get
> > on the web with his old compaq (300 mhz, win98)
> > machine. I quoted a
> > price, (I have a reasonable hourly fee, you want to
> > be able to get out
> > of there sometime. And if he's got the money to
> > burn, I got the time to
> > waste answering inane questions =) and we took a
> > look.
> >
> > Kenny has no idea about ergonomics, so we discussed
> > how using a kitchen
> > table as a computer desk is gonna kill him, even if
> > he is a one finger
> > typer who can't double click. It's only $40 for
> > cheap computer desk at
> > Office Depot, for christ sakes... anyway. Did I
> > mention he has cats? I'm
> > allergic to cats.. at least he kept them outside.
> >
> > His pc, at least 4 years old, is in the original
> > pristine compaq install
> > condition, with every piece of crap software they
> > install on it still
> > running. loverly.
> >
> > His modem won't dial. this is because it's not being
> > detected anymore.
> > It used to be detected, because it's setup, but when
> > I remove it, it
> > doesn't find it again. bummer. com2 completely gone.
> > I decide that I
> > will show him what a modem looks like, so we
> > disconnect the thing and I
> > haul it off to his kitchen where he has a tall
> > center island perfect for
> > working on the thing.
> >
> > I quickly see that someone has been there before me,
> > because they have
> > broken the fricken power button attachment by trying
> > to take the front
> > of the case off without disconnecting the cord,
> > which on these models is
> > firmly plugged into the motherboard... if you try to
> > pull the front
> > bezel off it breaks the mounting bracket for the
> > power switch rather
> > than unplugging the cord. Nice design. He said that
> > a friend of his had
> > done that, and I explain the joys of non-conductive
> > epoxy for case
> > repair, he says he doesn't use it, there is a power
> > switch on the back
> > he uses instead when he shuts down.(ok, he gets
> > points for actually
> > shutting down properly, which makes up for never in
> > 4 years doing a scan
> > disk or defrag.) I told him to put some duct tape
> > over the front so
> > someone else doesn't hit the switch and jam it
> > again.
> >
> > Unfortunately, the case won't come apart because his
> > cat has at sometime
> > in the past sprayed the thing. ("It's mine! Mine, I
> > tell you!" I had a
> > dog like that.) After a few moments of reflection, I
> > say: "Normally, we
> > don't use hammers on computers, but do you have one
> > handy?" With a
> > couple of judicious blows using a screwdriver as a
> > chisel, I pried the
> > thing apart and took a little sandpaper and 3in1 oil
> > to the rusted parts.
> >
> > I figured that maybe the cat had pissed on the modem
> > too, but no, no
> > evidence of corrosion there, swapped it to the other
> > pci slot (rockwell
> > hcf modem, early model, software upgradeable) and
> > figured what the hell,
> > it might work, so I washed my hands and we tried it.
> > Joy! It works! Oh,
> > by the way, the cat chewed the phone cord, too. go
> > figure.
> >
> > Oh yeah, he wanted to use AOL. I figured he was
> > paying. Latest version
> > didn't display well, but an earlier version did.
> > Told him to call and
> > cancel in 45 days, he should get at least another
> > free month, then he
> > can get the AARP discount... AOL is good for people
> > like him. It's all
> > in one place, and he'll have to upgrade his computer
> > to run the latest
> > version so he'll stimulate the economy.
> >
> > I had to explain that computers aren't like cars.
> > With cars, they don't
> > increase the minimum speed limit from 40 mph to 250
> > mph... And it
> > doesn't hurt to clean the keyboard every now and
> > then.
> >
> > And keep the cat away from the computer...
> >
> > Oh yeah, I got $50 and a couple of good cigars for
> > about 3 hrs work. I
> > work cheap.
> >
> > The story above is true. I didn't change the names
> > because he'll never
> > see this.
> > --
> > "You can fool some of the people all of the time
> > --and those are the ones you have to concentrate
> > on!"
> > GW Bush-- from the N.Y. Times
> >
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