Karma

It was time for Bill Gates to make the transition from his earthly home.

St. Peter agreed to be his guide.

Since Bill had been such an important person on earth, St. Peter decided to allow him to make a choice between Heaven and Hell.

So Bill was first escorted to a tour of Hell, it was not at all what he expected.

It was actually a pleasant spot, with good food, wine, and music, entertainment, beautiful women an all around very fine place.

St. Peter and Bill then toured Heaven; again Bill was surprised it was a stark and dreary place, very simple and pastoral with only very basic amenities.

Bill was not impressed, and so he chose Hell as his preferred destination.

A few weeks later, St Peter paid a visit to Hell to check in on Bill.

Bill was extremely unhappy, tied up to a post with flames all around him, burning, hungry, and scared.

He called out to St. Peter, “Hey, this is not what I expected! What went wrong? How could I have made such a mistake?”

St. Peter listened patiently and then replied, “Bill, I’m sorry about the misunderstanding, but what you first saw was only a demo!”

Submitted by curtis
Edited by calamjo and Tantilazing

Computer Terminology

486 – The average IQ needed to understand a PC.
State-of-the-art – Any computer you can’t afford.

Obsolete – Any computer you own.

Microsecond – The time it takes for your state-of-the-art computer to become obsolete.

G3 – Apple’s new Macs that make you say “Gee, three times faster than the computer I bought for the same price a Microsecond ago.”

Syntax Error – Walking into a computer store and saying, “Hi, I want to buy a computer and money is no object.”

Hard Drive – The sales technique employed by computer salesmen, esp. after a Syntax Error.

GUI – What your computer becomes after spilling your coffee on it. (pronounced “gooey”)

Keyboard – The standard way to generate computer errors.

Mouse – An advanced input device to make computer errors easier to generate.

Floppy – The state of your wallet after purchasing a computer.

Portable Computer – A device invented to force businessmen to work at home, on vacation, and on business trips.

Disk Crash – A typical computer response to any critical deadline.

Power User – Anyone who can format a disk from DOS.

System Update – A quick method of trashing ALL of your software.

Jobs/Gods

Where do you fit in?

CEO
Leaps tall buildings on a single bound
Is more powerful than a locomotive
Is faster than a speeding bullet
Walks on water
Gives Policy to God

Project Manager
Leaps short buildings in a single bound
Is more powerful than a switch engine
Is just as fast as a speeding bullet
Walks on water if sea is calm
Talks to God

Senior Analyst
Leaps short buildings with a running start and favorable winds
Is almost as powerful as a switch engine
Walks on water in an indoor swimming pool
Talks with God if special permission is approved

Systems Analyst
Barely clears a Quonset hut
Loses tug of war with a switch engine
Can fire a speeding bullet
Swims well
Is occasionally addressed by God

Programmer Analyst
Makes high marks on walls when trying to leap tall buildings
Is run over by locomotives
Can sometimes handle a gun without inflicting self-injury
Calls swimming “Staying Alive In The Water”
Talks to animals

Programmer
Runs into buildings
Recognizes locomotives two out of three times
Is not issued ammunition
Can stay afloat with a life jacket
Talks to walls

Project Clerk
Falls over doorstep when trying to enter building
Says look at the choo-choo
Wets himself with a water pistol
Plays in mud puddles
Mumbles to himself

Administrative Assistant
Lifts buildings and walks under them
Kicks locomotives off the tracks
Catches speeding bullets in her teeth and eats them
Freezes water with a single glance
Is a god

Online Too Long

1. Tech Support calls “YOU” for help.

2. Someone at work tells you a joke and you say “LOL” out loud.

3. You find yourself trying to cock your head 90 degrees when you smile.

4. You have called out someone’s screen name while making love to your significant other.

5. You keep begging your friends to get an account so “we can hang out”.

6. Three words: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.

7. If you are male and see a female in the “Real” world that you wish to meet, your first thought is to IM her.

8. If you are female and you see a male in the “Real” world that you wish to meet, your first thought is that you wish he’d IM you.

9. You don’t understand the humor in the above mentioned #7 and #8 since the “real” world is at your fingertips.

10. You have to get a 2nd phone line just so you can call Pizza Hut.

11. When you have sex, you no longer are concerned about sexually transmitted diseases.

12. You walk into a room, and, finding that it has more than 23 people, you inform management that there is an error.

13. When looking at signs, you wonder why they are always “yelling” at you.

14. You go up to people you are attracted to “in real life” and ask them for their GIF.

15. Although you don’t know what they look like, you become insanely jealous of people hitting on your cyber-love.

16. You don’t even know what your cyber-love looks like.

17. When at work, your boss constantly reminds you that the word i should be capitalized.

18. You watch TV with the closed captioning turned on.

19. Your spouse now complains of you moving your fingers in your sleep instead of talking.

20. Your kids are eating cereal morning, noon, and night.

21. When someone says, “What did you say?” you reply, “Scroll up!”

22. You find yourself sneaking away to the computer in the middle of the night when your spouse is asleep.

23. You turn down the lights & close the blinds so people won’t know you’re on-line again.

24. You know more about your AOL friends’ daily routines than you do your wn spouse’s.

25. You find yourself lying to others about your time on-line & when they complain that your phone was busy you claim it was off the hook.

26. You have an identity crisis if someone is using a screen name close to your own.

27. You would rather tell people that your bloodshot eyes are from partying too much than the truth (online all night).

28. You change your screen names so much that you have to look at your own profile to see who you are.

29. You go into labor and you stop to type a special E-mail to let everyone know you’re going to be away and how you’re feeling.

30. You marry your cyberboyfriend/girlfriend and you both sit at your own computers & chat to each other every night from across the room.

31. You type messages to people while you are on the phone with them at the same time.

32. You understand the humor in all of these jokes because you have committed then yourself!

33. Your dog leaves you.

34. You are doing things more and more that you swore you would never do when you first got online.

35. You sign on & immediately get 10 IMs from people who have you on their buddy list.

36. You have a map on the wall w/ LOTS of red thumbtacks to mark where people are you have met.

37. You look at an annoying person off-line & wish you had your ignore button handy.

38. You bring a bag lunch & a cooler to the computer.

39. Your significant other kisses your neck while you’re chatting and you think, “Uh oh, cyber sex perv”.

40. You go thru “withdrawal” if you are away from the computer for more than a few hours.

41. Your buddy list has over 100 people on it.

42. You understand what BIF ISO BIM means. (I wonder how many will get this one…If so, you’ve been hanging out in *strange* places).

43. You wake up in the morning and the first thing you do is get online before you have your first cup of coffee.

44. You have to inject no-doze into your butt to keep it awake.

45. You have your computer set so it goes directly into AOL’s welcome screen.

46. You wait 6 hours online for a certain “special” person to come home from work.

47. You don’t know where the time has gone.

48. You end sentences with 3 (or more) periods while writing letters by hand.

49. Your relationship online has gone farther than any real one you have had.

50. You get up at 2 am to go to the bathroom but turn on the computer instead.

51. You don’t even notice anymore when someone has a typo.

52. You enter a room & 23 people greet you w/ {{hugs}} or **kisses**.

53. You stop typing whole words and use things like ppl, dunno and lemme.

54. Your voicemail/answering machine message is “BRB, leave your s/n & I will TTYL”.

55. You type faster than you think.

56. You got your psychiatrist addicted to AOL too & are now undergoing therapy in private rooms instead of at his office.

57. You want to be buried with your computer when it dies or vice versa.

58. You actually enjoy the fact that you are addicted.

59. You can actually read & follow all the names of the cast that scrolls up your TV screen at the end of a movie

60. People say, “If it weren’t for your super reflexes in your eyes and fingers, you would have been classified as a vegetable!”

61. You dream in “text”.

62. Being called a Newbie is a “MAJOR” insult.

63. There is absolutely no interesting chat in any room & you’re really bored.

64. You don’t want to leave in case you miss something.

65. You double click your TV remote.

66. You can now type over 70 wpm.

67. You think about starting a 12-step recovery group for AOL junkies.

68. You are on the phone a minute & need to do something else & say “BRB” r “BBL”.

69. You check your E-mail and forget you have real mail (a.k.a. snail mail).

70. You go into withdrawals during dinner.

71. You spend at least 30 minutes making sure you say goodbye to everyone in a room.

72. You stop speaking in full sentences.

73. You have gone into an unstaffed Tech Support room & ended up “giving” tech support to other AOLers.

74. You have to be pried from your computer by the “Jaws of Life”.

75. Your last sexual experience was really just a “textual” experience.

76. You know what a “snert” is.

77. You set your kitchen on fire while cooking dinner because you wanted to “check your mail” & while there you “just wanted to see who was nline”.

78. You meet people from AOL in public & you have no idea what their real name is, so you call them by their screen name.

79. You’ve even gotten on an airplane just to meet some folks face-to-face.

80. When seeing someone you wish to meet, your second thought is wishing they’d be on AOL so you don’t have to meet them in person.

81. You have a vanity car tag with your screen name on it.

82. You no longer type with proper capitalization, punctuation, or complete sentences.

83. You have met over 100 AOLers.

84. When meeting a stranger, you ask for their profile. If they have a profile you ask them for an age/sex/location check.

85. You understand the humor in all of this.

86. You keep telling yourself to Get a Life.

87. When someone online says BRB, gotta go pee, you ask them to go for you, and think they can.

More Computer Viruses!

DANGER: new viruses discovered!:

Congressional Virus v 2.0 : Runs every program on the hard drive simultaneously, but doesn’t allow the user to accomplish anything.

Tipper Gore Virus : When you attempt to play any sound file, it pops up a warning window stating that some lyrics may be unsuitable for children.

Government Ecomomist Virus : Nothing works, but all your diagnostic software says everything is fine.

New World Order Virus : Probably harmless, but it makes a lot of people really mad just thinking about it.

Warren Commission Virus : Won’t allow you to open your files for 75 years.

David Duke Virus : Makes your screen go completely white.

Pat Buchanan Virus : Shifts all your output to the extreme right of your screen.

Texas Virus : Makes sure it’s bigger than any other file.

Adam And Eve Virus : Takes a couple of bytes out of your Apple.

Warren Beatty Virus : Constantly tries to prove it’s virility by attaching itself to younger or newer files.

Airline Virus : You’re in Dallas, but your data is in Singapore.

Freudian Virus : Your computer becomes obsessed with marrying its own motherboard.

PBS Virus : Your PC stops what it’s doing every few minutes to ask for money.

Jimmy Hoffa Virus : Nobody can find it.

Kevorkian Virus : Helps your computer shut down whenever it wants to.

Healthcare Virus : Tests your system for a day, finds nothing wrong, and sends a you a bill for $4,500.

LAPD Virus : It claims it feels threatened by the other files on your PC and erases them in “self-defence”.

Billy Graham Virus : When you save a file, it prints, “I am saved!” to the screen.

Michael Jackson Virus : Hard to identify because it is constantly altering its appearance. This Virus won’t harm your PC, but it will trash your car.

And finally…

JokeGalore.com Virus : poses as a harmless list of funny computer Virus names! Is quickly passed from one user to all other users known via e-mail, consequently consuming all known network resources.

Stupid as in Not Smart Part SIX!

My company posted a notice next to the time clock. It said the
company calendar had a typo, that the union-won holiday wasn’t
really a holiday at all. The company blamed the printer for this
mistake. (Nice try.)

But that’s not the funny part. The first line of the notice
said, “Please Take Notice.” So the guy standing next to me took
it.

True Tale 2
———–
There are two doors in the restroom at work. One is the exit and
the other, on the other side of the room, is a closet. The
closet door is clearly labeled “closet.”

The other day I was using the restroom and I heard an
Induhvidual open a door and exclaim, “Darn it! That’s the closet
again!”

True Tale 3
———–
My boss had recently learned how to use spreadsheet software. He
proudly called me into his office to show me a new trick he’d
learned. At one point during his demonstration he was moving his
mouse toward himself and it reached the edge of his desk. I
watched in amazement as he deftly rolled his mouse around the
edge of the desk and underneath.

I stifled my giggling and politely said, “You know, you don’t
need to do that with the mouse.” Whereupon he took offense and
said, “I know. I usually grab a book and put it next to the desk
and roll the mouse onto it, but I just can’t reach my books
right now.” I said, “Yeah, that’s what I do,” and excused myself
before I broke a rib trying not to laugh.

True Tale 4
———–
I attend one of the top universities in the UK. My housemate
recently surpassed his usual high standard of stupidity. He
needed to open a bottle. After hanging around looking helpless,
someone handed him a wine opener (the corkscrew type) that had a
bottle opener on one end. My housemate disappeared for five
minutes and reappeared with an apologetic look on his face.
“I’ve broken it. I’m sorry.”

Under questioning he confessed that he had been trying to screw
the corkscrew through the top of the metal bottle cap.

True Tale 5
———–
A VP of our company stood up at our company meeting and asked
all employees to look over the new website to make sure it was
“grammerly correct.”

True Tale 6
———–
Recently the Southern Hemisphere was treated to a total lunar
eclipse. During this event one Induhvidual standing in my street
suggested that we photograph it. Someone explained that the moon
would be difficult to photograph because it was completely
darkened by the shadow of Earth. Her response was, “What about
if I use the flash?”

True Tale 7
———–
A customer returned to our wireless phone store with the phone
she had recently purchased. She complained that the phone worked
fine for the first two days and then suddenly went dead. I asked
her how long she had charged the battery. She replied, “What do
you mean, charge?”

Upon further interrogation it became clear that she thought the
one- year warranty on the battery meant it would last that long.

True Tale 8
———–
This is a True Tale that involves a sign I spotted nailed to a
tree along a dirt road somewhere in Iowa:

I lost 75 lbs. Free Samples! 555-1212

True Tale 9
————
I work at a secure R&D facility in the electronics industry. One
day a sign at the guard’s desk located in the front lobby said,
“Guard is on rounds. Visitors wait here!”

Being an upstanding DNRC member, I took it upon myself to add
(in big, bold letters) “…and don’t steal my laptop!!!”

True Tale 10
————
About four years ago we had a multiple choice test for one of
our digital design subjects. A friend of mine had no clue in
this subject but could clearly see the answers of the person to
his left. So he copied them.

At the end of the exam we were informed that there were TWO
tests, alternating by row! He had cheated off the wrong test!

But he got a good grade anyway!! Why? Because the person he had
cheated off had cheated off the person sitting next to him!
Moral of the story: Two Induhviduals make a right.

True Tale 11
————
The other day at the gas station, while waiting in line to pay
for my gas, I commented to another customer how expensive
gasoline had become. Her reply was, “You know, it doesn’t really
affect me; I always put in twenty dollars every time I gas up.”

True Tale 12
————
I was in a meeting with a manager – one of those meetings where
the sole purpose is for her to make a speech and everyone to be
impressed – and she showed an example of how the figures would
be added up. It became apparent that she had no idea how you add
or subtract negative numbers. I pointed out that the result of
her first example was wrong. What followed was a lively debate
on how you are meant to add or subtract negative numbers. The
prevailing opinion was that there wasn’t just one correct way of
doing it, so all the different manufacturers of calculators went
with their own conventions. I was told that my calculator worked
differently than hers. (And how many meetings have you been to
that included a concurrent test of two calculators?)

The meeting ended with her bemoaning the fact that she wasn’t
getting any “buy-in” for her idea. A few days later she
received, anonymously, a picture of Prof. Stephen Hawking, with
the caption, “You must be at least this smart to invent your own
branch of math.”

True Tale 13
————
An Induhvidual in my physics class did his math with a pen. He
had to use lots of Liquid Paper to cover the mistakes. It was
recommended to him that he use a pencil. The next day I saw him
covering his pencil marks with Liquid Paper.

True Tale 14
————
A few days ago I went to the copy place. I needed 80 copies. The
guy told me that if I made fewer than 100 copies, each copy
would cost 4 cents. But if I made at least 100 copies I would
get the discounted rate of 2 cents per copy.

I told him to make 80 copies of the front of the document and
make 20 copies of the blank back. I could use the blank paper
later on for other purposes. He probably never thought of this
situation before; he gave me an angry look but copied the
documents anyway.

True Tale 15
————
This is a direct quote from a newsletter I just received. It is
the summer vacation edition and includes this tip on a list of
“Luggage-Packing Secrets of the Pros.”

“SECRET TIP #3: Double the security of luggage padlocks with
economical electrical ties. Since they must be cut to be
removed, they’re tamper-evident. (Remember to pack scissors!)”

Um…and where do you pack those scissors?

True Tale 16
————
After pulling a ditsy temp secretary off phone duty (she put my
phone number instead of the caller’s on phone messages), I
assigned her to something safe: labeling files. This task did
not include the filing itself, which would have required a
thorough grasp of the alphabet; it only involved affixing
colorful self-adhesive labels to the outside edge of each file
indicating the contract number. The Induhvidual cheerfully
labeled throughout the afternoon, completing 150 files. The next
day, my regular secretary asked why our files had been sealed
closed with colorful self-adhesive labels.

True Tale 17
————
This is one I actually heard several years ago.

“We’ve got to separate the weed from the shaft.”

Computer Acronyms

PCMCIA – People Can’t Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms

PENTIUM – Produces Erroneous Numbers Through Incorrect Understanding of Mathematics

WWW – World Wide Wait

COBOL – Completely Obsolete Business Oriented Language

CD-ROM – Consumer Device – Rendered Obsolete in Months

OS/2 – Obsolete Soon, Too.

MIPS – Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed

WINDOWS – Will Install Needless Data On Whole System

MICROSOFT – Most Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software Only Fools Teenagers

LISP – Lots of Infuriating & Silly Parenthesis

RISC – Reduced Into Silly Code

SCSI – System Can’t See It

DOS – Defective Operating System

BASIC – Bill’s Attempt to Seize Industry Control

IBM – I Blame Microsoft

DEC – Do Expect Cuts

Microsoft support

A Microsoft support man goes to a firing range. He shoots 10 bullets at the target 50m away.

Then the supervisors check the target and see that there’s not even a single hit, and they shout to him that he missed completely.

So he tells them to recheck, and gets the same answer.

Then he put his finger at the top of the gun and shoots, blasting off his finger.

When he saw it he shouted back, “I don’t know, it’s working perfectly here, the problem must be yours…”

Submitted by Curtis
Edited by Calamjo

Computer Virus List 1

Ellen Degeneres virus:
Your IBM suddenly claims it’s a MAC

Monica Lewinsky virus:
Sucks all the memory out of your computer

Titanic virus:
Makes your whole computer go down

Disney virus:
Everything in the computer goes Goofy

Mike Tyson virus:
Quits after one byte

Prozac virus:
Screws up your RAM but your processor doesn’t care

Sharon Stone virus:
Makes a huge initial impact, then you forget it’s there.