One evening while walking through the school hallways, a friend was attempting to impress me with this knowledge of computers.
Him: “I can use HTML coding to do my homework for me. That way I don’t have to waste time on it.”
Stupid Friends
A friend of mine was typing a letter up in Notepad and called me saying that the letters were upside down. I’ve heard a few things in my time but never heard of upside down letters. So I went over and had a look. Everything looked fine, but she said no, the L’s are upside down. It still took a minute to figure out what she meant. But, yeah, a lower case L looks like an upside down upper case L.
Stupid Friends
Sometime in the late 1990s, I had a friend who was an Amiga fanatic and would spend hours telling us how they were the most powerful, versatile, flawless machines ever conceived by man.
I went with him when he bought his new A-4000 and some 3D modelling software. He told us how it will render true 3D in almost real time. I shrugged, watched him set the thing up, and load the software. He fed the thing a wireframe and gave it some textures and background elements. Six days later, the computer finished rendering the first frame.
He explained later that he discovered he only had 2 megs of RAM and had ordered 4. “Isn’t that still kind of pathetic?” I asked. “My girlfriend’s HP has 16.”
He said, “Well, Amigas use everything so much more efficiently, so it compares to a PC with gigabytes of RAM. It’s enough to hack your IBM through the power outlet.”
I gave up all sense of restraint and must have laughed for 20 minutes.
Stupid Friends
Yesterday my friend asked why is an electrical outlet called an outlet when you plug things into it? Shouldn’t it be called an inlet.