Stupid Friends

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.”

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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.

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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.

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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.

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