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My son-in-law has some sort of psychic aura, I think. My daughter says she was having trouble with her printer and called for him to look at it. He stood in the doorway looking and the printer started printing. I dismissed that , but I was havving trouble with a software defined radio the computer wasn't recognizing, he came over yesterday and as soon as he walked in my office the wsoftware started working flawlessly.
I assume he scares the hell out of anything electronics related.
He's a great son-in-law, He's now the family IT help desk instead of me, so I'm happy!
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Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Then it is time to reward him with a stay in this hotel: Hotel Aura[^] 
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This happens to me quite often when a client calls for help with a problem. They are my favorite kind of support calls!  or maybe just a magnetic personality!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Walt Fair, Jr. wrote: I was havving trouble with a software defined radio
Are you a ham?
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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I have the same thing with a friends computer. He breaks it, calls me, I walk into the same room, it works fine. Seems to work - and I get paid in coffee and cuddles with his dogs.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You're a pretty cheap date.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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I get this all the time at work ... I provide some in-house tech know-how and "support" to a business team ... As soon as they call me over to their desks it, whatever it is, starts working again.
I'm thinking of getting one of those free-standing cardboard cutouts of me to leave in the team area - that'll frighten the young 'uns
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My brother is the opposite. He barely has to look at an electric appliance and it stops working. I quite literally won't allow him to touch my computer.
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I get that a lot with my parents' computers. I think the mere threat of me swearing at it in just the right way makes it start working. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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He might be a Technopath. Be careful he doesn't turn evil.
(How many of you will get this reference?)
Answer: Sky High
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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My wife (yippy ki yay) and partner down at the old computer shop is the same way.
Today a bro came in with a chromebook that wouldn't start because of some error. For a week!
He dropped it at the front desk, my wife pushed the power and it came up. The guy was freaking out because, really, it won't start. Who are you. She didn't charge him.
She's forever doin stuff that must be voodoo because everyone knows you can't do that, but it all obeys her. 
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Walt Fair, Jr. wrote: looking and the printer started printing
I suppose that programmers of printer drivers purposely implement these kind of random behaviour. I think the job of testers of printer drivers has not been invented yet, neither the one of printer driver optimisers (seriously, 545Mb for a printer driver ?). Programmers are probably being paid at the number of kb.
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Are innuendos just operating systems for Italian proctologist ? ?
Prenderò il mio cappotto . . .
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Got that in the end!
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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Reminds me of some thopughtlessness I heard recently.
A man goes into a library and asks the clerk foir the self help section. The clerk replies, If
I showed you it would defeat the purpose.Maybe from George Carlin, but I didn't hear it from him.
Physicists hypothesize that about 95% of the universe is made of Dark matter and dark energy.We know about electrons, proton and neutrons, so the other 95% must be morons. Whioch explains why as we try to make our software more and more fpoolproof, we've observed that the universe appears to have an unlimited supply of fools and idiots!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Something I posted here some time ago.
You've seen movies about the undead, such as zombies. Folklore has had undead in the form of vampires for centuries. Variations on this in films are legion.
But no one - no where - now how - would ever consider stretching our imagination to anything invoking the unstupid.
At some deep instinctual level we all know that it's easier to raise the dead then cure stupidity.
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I believe most libraries have "The Idiots Guide to the Dewey Decimal System"
- oddly it's never been borrowed.
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Nope, I'm sure that those who need it can't find it! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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No, not Dilbert of the Day, but could be. Instead I'm thinking the acronym stands for Drivel of the Day.
To be a client obsessed organization that boldly and continually reimagines the way we deliver value to our clients.
Now, if this was the alien costume designer for the next Star Trek movie, maybe I could go with it.
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Marc Clifton wrote: that ... continually reimagines the way we deliver value to our clients.
Do the clients ever benefit from all this imaginary delivery?
For mine it sounds more like a nice way of saying "we sell them new bullshit every day on why we havn't delivered yet" (i.e. it's 'imagined' - nothing implies 'done.')
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Yeah ... what he said.
It's like the expression "I'll be forever indebted to you" which really means "I'll never pay you back".
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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That sounds like a purveyor of spam and malware.
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The adult entertainment industry motto .....
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Oh, right, I remember having to do some UI testing when the company I worked for about fifteen years ago started to develop a Web interface for their "content delivery" business...
They always said the business was recession-proof, but I wonder whether or not they survived the Internet boom and access to free... content.
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That really sounds like an article I read about rapid development recently.
Process went like this...
1. Company attempts to predict/makes a drunken guess about what new features their customers want
2. Develop new feature set
3. Push update to customers
4. Check use metrics and customer complaints about new feature set
5. Based on that info, either remove, redesign, or leave alone
6. Repeat from step 1.
Sounds like it only works if you have A) more money than you know what to do with and B) an inversely proportional level of knowledge about what your customers actually want.
See the upset about whatever image sharing application's recent redesign for the above concept in action.
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