that my boss wasn't as big of an idiot as she is proving herself to be. She is a systems manager for the whole school district. I got hired to coordinate technical help, and learn how to do it at the same time. I don't have a problem with that. They can't afford to hire a real computer whiz, so they train some house-wife like me who they know they will own until all their kids graduate from high school. The problem is that it is becoming obvious that she doesn't know what she is doing. For instance, the other day she pops a zip drive into the 'puter, and it starts clicking away. Even I know this is not a good thing. Well, it turns out that that was her whole school district inventory and other databases that - get this - she didn't have another copy of. Period. Not on floppies in a file, not on one main hard drive anywhere. She spent the next two days going to 100 different computers re-making this disk. She still doesn't have the whole thing worked out yet. I'm taking this A+ certification class with the kids in the morning. She is the teacher. No syllabus to follow. No sequence. She has us do things on the computers with no background information or book reference to study on our own. I might try to find a college course that does the same thing so I can get a different teacher. I would really like to respect her, but at this point, I don't think it's possible. I won't quit or anything, my goal is to surpass her knowledge and level of competence (they are different). Well, that's my rant.

i tried to move a 85MB song from my home to here via zip disk. the fucker started clicking. zip disks suck. i hate zip.

People like that are everywhere. My father is a college professor, teaches Spanish, Italian, Latin, and Latin American studies...lived in Venezuela for 13 years...writes books that he's too humble to publish...knows more than anybody in his department....and he consistently gets passed over when a new chair position comes up. Because the fools he works with think they know more than he does. So they become chairperson, and then they go to him for help with organizing meetings, department plans, etc. So he does their work, and they get the credit. But it works out in the end. Because his students love him, and their students don't. And he gets awards and grants for being a great teacher (last year he won the Linback award, for excellence in teaching...the first person to do so at his university) and they don't. My mother's a high school teacher. Gets screwed by her department chairperson every year because the chairperson (hereby called CP) gets a room of her own and my mother has to move all around the school, carrying all her books and things, when the CP knows she has osteoperosis and can't lift a lot. The CP also insisted that my mother have a homeroom, yet it's in the CP's room, so my mother has to be responsible for keeping the room in order when it's not even hers. But again, my mother's students love her and have to be turned away from her limited-enrollment classes, while the CP has to go after students in the summertime to make sure she has enough kids in her class. This year, my mother has been approached by other teachers in her department to run for chairperson next year. So I'm sure you know this already, Lawanda...but people will know she's incompetent and will do something about it. Maybe you can stage a coup.

Lawanda, Don't sweat it... There is one major rule when working with computers. "There will always be someone who knows more than you." Its just a matter of making it so you know more then them. I'm 17, and yet I have my MCSE ( Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, for the techno-softies.) As well I'm A+. What pisses me off about the world is people's way of looking at things. For example, my father works for the biggest hospital in the state, both he and my mother work there. Anyway the IT's in that hospital are about as slow as the school district tech's here. I hear about computer problems that it takes them weeks to fix, that I could fix in minutes. And yet they get paid about 21 $ an hour... A bit ironic isn't it... Anyway, go down to you local Barns & Nobel and get your self the Mike Myers A+ Training Book. And self-train yourself. Get you A+ because its a gateway into a job market that's endless. And when the school district says "Hey! You can't leave we need you." Tell them to Fuck Off. Oh if you need any guidence at all on where you can get more t

Training info, mail me... ( Thats what it was suppose to say. )

Whenever I see Hal, I just can't help but think of "2001: A Space Odyssey." Poor Dave.

What's "clicking"?

chair positions in academia are always more about politics than ability. 100% bootyschwagg.

The infamous click of death. When zip disks self destruct!

How does such a thing happen?

From what I understand, Zip disks are inherently prone to spontaneous combustion. As NZ said, the click of death. Otherwise, I have no tech explanation. Thanks for the info Hal, I'll probably be contacting you. She got this ghost white expression on her face when it started clicking. Ever hear the expression "Don't put all your eggs in one basket" boss? I heard at the football game last night that the powers that be are trying to get me a full time gig at the high school. That would be nice.

columbine

Friendly, is your name supposed to be an oxymoron? Or, was the r in your name just accidentally put there...

i'm so goddam friendly. isn't it obvious by now? if it isn't, you've got problems, sparky.

Yuh huh.

just because i'm a smart ass doesn't mean i'm unfriendly. all i really want is a hug every now and then. and some beer. and the ability to spit acid out of my eyes.

Yuh huh.

Friendly,I,ll give you some beer and a hug,but I don,t know how to make acid come out of your eyes,we could work on it.

I Can Feel The Love.

2 out of 3 is encouraging. i'd settle for absolute control over strong and weak nuclear forces. that would be fun. can we work on that, too?

Oh, you tart.

Yea,we can...Gee,I can,t help it.

Yep.

If I kick you in the balls hard enough, acid will come out your eyes all right. Did it to a cuban refugee once after I hit him with a garbage can and he was on the ground. Fucker spoke Tartar as he groveled.

Nono, J. Not you. Hal. Hal is the tart. See....he/she said he (or she, I dunno!) could Feel the Love...get it? get it?? heh heh heh! See?! huh? huh? <winkwinknudgenudge>

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i haven't beat off in a week.

that's not what your housemate says.

i haven't been home for a week, that's why.

Nate, are you anywhere Menlo Park? I'm going to be working in Menlo Park tonight and tomorrow so if you want to come down and meet me let me know and I'll tell you where.

i'm still not home. i'm in oh oh oh idaho. i live in the santa cruz mountains. i might meet you in a public place with an easy out. i'll be wearing a trenchcoat and a white shirt with red polkadots. i'm the guy with the unibrow.

What's a unibrow?

Do you get Seseme Street?Think Burt.

your kidding me Gee.......REALLY....you don't know what a unibrow is.......... one eye brow baby....all the way across...ear to ear.....no in between......you know those guys, they usually work in pizzerias

Why do people who have one long eyebrow not take a razor to the middle of it? I mean...really? It seems like simple logic. But I wonder that about people with excessive arm hair, too.

When I was in Naples back in '85 I met a guy with a unibrow and a straight razor. I don't think he was getting ready to shave.

Probably for the same reason some women sport mustaches. I used to work with this woman who I SWEAR had hairier legs than me. She was gorgeous, and was very toned, but that hair. YIKES!

if you pluck it eventually it thins out on its own