DotH repost: Microsoft is a malevalent Elder God...
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2001 08:30 amSpeaking of computer, let's speak about mine. I sitll don't have one. I almost did, but alas, it didn't work. Saturday evening my roommate Miome (who hosts my GW fics over at Miome's Maxwell House) was working on installing Windows 98 onto what will become my computer. She got it done on Saturday and asked me the all important question. What did I want to name my computer?
Understand I have been tired all weekend long. Saturday (Em, Dan, Cneko, Jag, Miome and I were all supposed to finish an RPG we started playing on Friday. Only I was so tired, that I fell asleep. So Miome took me home and woke me up for dinner and then asked me, while I was still tired, to name my computer. So I named it the first thing that came to my mind.
I called it Tanako.
In retrospect, it would have been better if I named my computer after Cthulu. Or Loki. Certainly naming my computer Loki would have invited less trouble. I can just see the conversation now.
Tsaiko: Hey, I think my computer is possessed by a malevalent Elder God.
Random person: Why do you say that?
Tsaiko: Because it keeps throwing errors, crashes at the worse moments, won't boot half the time, randomly eats programs and/or files, and works perfectly fine when I get someone here to look at it and tell me what's wrong.
Random person: Oh that. That's just Microsoft.
Tsaiko: Like I said, my computer has been possessed by a malevalent Elder God...
But no, I had to go and name my computer Tanako. For those who are going "Who the Heck is Tanako?" I'd advise you reading Ani. For those of you who have read it, feel my pain. Because tanako is the kind of character that get's stuck in your head and makes a pain out of himself. He's done it to me and to the wonderfully talented Ms. Miko, demanding that we do what he wanted when he wanted and pitching a fit when we didn't listen.
So I tried to boot up my computer on Sunday. Threw an error. Tried again. Different error. Yet again. Yet another error. So I went and got Miome to see what the problem was. She assured me it booted just find Saturday. I wandered into her room to play on her computer while she fixed mine.
The first sign that something was wrong was the cry of despair that emanated from my room after about an hour. But I though, "Hey, it's MS. Cries of despair are normal when dealing with it." Then another hour went by and Miome wandered in and started banging her head against the wall. That's when I knew. My computer was down and would not be coming back up that night. So I went and consoled Miome telling her that it was not her fault. Then I wrote stories the old fashioned way. By hand.
So I am still without computer. When will I be able to churn out the fanfics and short stories you all know and love? I don't know. But I will always accept donations in the for of comments to keep me writing.
And money. Money is alwaus good.
Understand I have been tired all weekend long. Saturday (Em, Dan, Cneko, Jag, Miome and I were all supposed to finish an RPG we started playing on Friday. Only I was so tired, that I fell asleep. So Miome took me home and woke me up for dinner and then asked me, while I was still tired, to name my computer. So I named it the first thing that came to my mind.
I called it Tanako.
In retrospect, it would have been better if I named my computer after Cthulu. Or Loki. Certainly naming my computer Loki would have invited less trouble. I can just see the conversation now.
Tsaiko: Hey, I think my computer is possessed by a malevalent Elder God.
Random person: Why do you say that?
Tsaiko: Because it keeps throwing errors, crashes at the worse moments, won't boot half the time, randomly eats programs and/or files, and works perfectly fine when I get someone here to look at it and tell me what's wrong.
Random person: Oh that. That's just Microsoft.
Tsaiko: Like I said, my computer has been possessed by a malevalent Elder God...
But no, I had to go and name my computer Tanako. For those who are going "Who the Heck is Tanako?" I'd advise you reading Ani. For those of you who have read it, feel my pain. Because tanako is the kind of character that get's stuck in your head and makes a pain out of himself. He's done it to me and to the wonderfully talented Ms. Miko, demanding that we do what he wanted when he wanted and pitching a fit when we didn't listen.
So I tried to boot up my computer on Sunday. Threw an error. Tried again. Different error. Yet again. Yet another error. So I went and got Miome to see what the problem was. She assured me it booted just find Saturday. I wandered into her room to play on her computer while she fixed mine.
The first sign that something was wrong was the cry of despair that emanated from my room after about an hour. But I though, "Hey, it's MS. Cries of despair are normal when dealing with it." Then another hour went by and Miome wandered in and started banging her head against the wall. That's when I knew. My computer was down and would not be coming back up that night. So I went and consoled Miome telling her that it was not her fault. Then I wrote stories the old fashioned way. By hand.
So I am still without computer. When will I be able to churn out the fanfics and short stories you all know and love? I don't know. But I will always accept donations in the for of comments to keep me writing.
And money. Money is alwaus good.
