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Feb. 14th, 2008 08:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mcitySuppose you have a paper to write on your family's laptop. For some reason, the laptop's power adapter is not working, but you have an old, but still working desktop in the next room. Do you
a)Email or sneakernet the files over to your old(but not busted) desktop.
b)Use the new hotness laptop anyway.
If you knew someone who chose b) would you consider the choice
a)selfish
b)stupid
c)both a and b.
Gah. So full of rage.
a)Email or sneakernet the files over to your old(but not busted) desktop.
b)Use the new hotness laptop anyway.
If you knew someone who chose b) would you consider the choice
a)selfish
b)stupid
c)both a and b.
The really annoying part is that MJ came into my room, before I had even got up, passive-agressively saying that she "hoped" I could get a laptop power adapter from the store I worked at. I'm not even sure if she knew I was awake. She said this while she was letting the laptop battery go dead. I came into our dining room, notced the laptop was on, and opened the lid just in time to watch the battery power meter-which she had left open-say 0% for about sixty seconds before the laptop cut off. I spent the time examining the little Dell for the invisble, magical power source she had connected it to, because no one would be so stupid as to leave a laptop with no functioning power adapter on when they weren't using it, right?
When I pointed out that she had just screwed anyone in this household of four adults, one houseguest, and her that might have needed to use the laptop, she said that she had finished her work and emailed the files to herself already. Then she sauntered out.
Incidentally, since the laptop has one broken USB port and now the adapter, my mother thinks we should use the desktop and keep the laptop in reserve. Listen, lady, if you had a 72 Ford Pinto that was working perfectly and a 95 Ford Mustang with a stuck window, which would you keep in reserve?
Like many "non-technical" people, my mother keeps assuming that everyone has the same techno-needs as her, despite knowing that I'm more experienced. The most demanding program she uses is Yahoo Messenger with Voice. The next one down from that is IE6. And then Freecell.
When I pointed out that I can barely get Photoshop 7-which was released in 2002-going on the desktop, she insisted that it wasn't vital. If we kept computers to what is 'vital', Mother, we'd still be using abacuses.
When I pointed out that she had just screwed anyone in this household of four adults, one houseguest, and her that might have needed to use the laptop, she said that she had finished her work and emailed the files to herself already. Then she sauntered out.
Incidentally, since the laptop has one broken USB port and now the adapter, my mother thinks we should use the desktop and keep the laptop in reserve. Listen, lady, if you had a 72 Ford Pinto that was working perfectly and a 95 Ford Mustang with a stuck window, which would you keep in reserve?
Like many "non-technical" people, my mother keeps assuming that everyone has the same techno-needs as her, despite knowing that I'm more experienced. The most demanding program she uses is Yahoo Messenger with Voice. The next one down from that is IE6. And then Freecell.
When I pointed out that I can barely get Photoshop 7-which was released in 2002-going on the desktop, she insisted that it wasn't vital. If we kept computers to what is 'vital', Mother, we'd still be using abacuses.
Gah. So full of rage.
