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So when I was a wee lad, Grampaw set me on his knee and said "Boy, find what you do best, and do it."

One thing I'm good at is irritating people around me, especially my wife. I found something new, and she hasn't found out yet. I hooked up another mouse to her computer, so when she uses her mouse, I use mine. Mouse wars. She knows something's fucked up because cursors can't sneak into my rum, but hers clearly acts drunk. she's been getting more chagrined lately.

Try it. Good times.

My wife thinks the Roku remote is broken ever since I found the Android app for that.

Bo_9 wrote:My wife thinks the Roku remote is broken ever since I found the Android app for that.

you sir, are devious!

Bo_9 wrote: Roku remote

huh?

Bo_9 wrote:Android app

huh?

not irritated, just feeling real dumb right now

Zer0 wrote:

Bo_9 wrote: Roku remote

huh?

Bo_9 wrote:Android app

huh?

not irritated, just feeling real dumb right now

my thoughts exactly

Roku is a handy little box you hook to a television that wirelessly streams Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and other such media for your viewing pleasure.
Android is the OS that runs this handy phone I'm replying on.

Bo_9 wrote:Roku is a handy little box you hook to a television that wirelessly streams Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and other such media for your viewing pleasure.
Android is the OS that runs this handy phone I'm replying on.

<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CnjaUoR15dU?fs ... ram><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CnjaUoR15dU?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>

Heh, good one Zer0. I may have to try that out on the wifey.

In high school we had a bunch of Apple Pet computers which shared dot matrix printers and 5 1/4 floppy drives through a switch box. A buddy and I figured out how to type on one computer and when you hit enter it would come up on the other machine sharing the switch. We naturally used our discovery to fuck with a guy neither of us cared for due to his temperamental nature. After he spent an hour or so entering a program in BASIC the fun began.

He types "run"
The computer responds "too many pancakes error"
"What?!?"
"run"
"too many pancakes in line 40"
"What the fuck is this shit!?!"
"list 40"
"40 pancakes=238"
"Fucking piece of shit!!! Fucking machine!!!"

At this point he starts banging on the keyboard and slamming stuff around resulting in a lockup of both machines. I had to leave the room to keep from busting out laughing and giving away the whole game. Good times.

Not quite as devious, but I was put in charge of the Mac labs in college and given the ONLY password for the system (which I immediately changed). I reset all of the computers so they'd sing, "You are and idiot. Ha, ha, ha, ha, hahaha, ha, ha, ha, ha, haaaaa." every time someone made an error.
I'd sit at my desk and listen to the choir (which ran pretty much non-stop during finals week) laughing myself silly.
Maybe I should have told them what I reset the password to when I graduated?

Ames wrote: I reset all of the computers so they'd sing, "You are and idiot. Ha, ha, ha, ha, hahaha, ha, ha, ha, ha, haaaaa." every time someone made an error.

Brilliant, ames! Wish I had been that clever (and adept at programming) ... most I ever did on classroom computers (back on an Apple IIe) was write a code that caused a stream of Asteroid-like gunnery ships to scroll up the screen. It only lasted a day before it got nixed ... probably why I didn't go into programming as a career.

Ames wrote:Maybe I should have told them what I reset the password to when I graduated?

Nah ... that would have deprived some snarky computer whiz kid the pleasure of cracking your password.