Comments on: Hit by lightning!

By: lizardbrain

lizardbrain — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:56:59 +0000

Start reading up now. Or, better still, ignore it for now and when you next need to build a new one, hire the 13 year old down the street to advise you. Sure woulda saved me a bunch o’ headache. But then, I enjoy the headache.

This stuff changes too fast to keep up with. Witness the Worpdress upgrades.

By: S. Weasel

S. Weasel — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:08:55 +0000

Ha! You posted that seconds before I killed the blog, LB. The whole time I was faffing around with it this morning, your post was staring reproachfully at me. Mocking me.

Sorry about your motherboard. A friend’s motherboard just died, which made me stop and think I know NOTHING about the current state of the technology. I’ve built all my machines myself, but last time I walked into a CompUSA to do it. So the kids behind the counter could tell me if the stuff I was buying was compatible.

Got it home, put it together. Nothing. It was a duff power supply, as I recall, but that sure is scary stuff. I’ve never hit the switch and nuffink happened before.

Anyhow, I’ll be lost when I go to do it next. AND I’ll be a stranger in a strange land.

By: Lightning Bolt! « lizard brain

Lightning Bolt! « lizard brain — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:36:12 +0000

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By: lizardbrain

lizardbrain — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:20:22 +0000

I am just now getting back to normal (ok, “usual”) after a lightning strike outside my house. Turns out I don’t do well without computers and internet access.

Welcome to the club, Stoaty. And I’m glad you’re back up and normal (ok, “usual”) once again.

By: porknbean

porknbean — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:51:34 +0000

Don’t feel bad musli, I didn’t get it either.

By: Muslihoon

Muslihoon — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:04:59 +0000

Thanks for the explanation! I am now the understanding the joke.

By: Christopher Taylor

Christopher Taylor — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:03:33 +0000

“For reasons I don’t recall, in the very early days of AIDS, intravenous drug users and Haitians were the other groups that were especially prone to it.”

Actually, that’s still true: shared needles and unbelievably risky, out of control sexual activity on Haiti. Gays, Junkies, and Haitians are the people most likely to have AIDS still. And, if you believe the overinflated absurd guesstimates of the UN, anyone in Africa. They’ve backed down on those, lately.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:16:41 +0000

Dude! Our house got hit last week, and it fried my network card – which was weird, since the rest of the computer was fine, and I only figured out it was the card after waiting for Comcast to come check my line. So onto Amazon I went, and 15 bucks and two days later I was popping in a new card. It’s so funny – Dan was so impressed that I could open the computer and FIX it!! But what are the odds that we’d both be hit and fry our computers within a week?

By: Scubafreak

Scubafreak — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:56:54 +0000

I’ll try to get him tonight. He loves dancing on the keyboard, because it makes things on the screen move…..

Gets pretty pissy if i move him off the laptop, too……..

By: S. Weasel

S. Weasel — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:33:44 +0000

Well, yeah, but Kinison didn’t have to answer to a corporate personnel department.

Take anything you like. But send kitten pitchers!