Heartland

Dear Heartland,

Throughout my working career I have come into contact with a number of PCs. I've never paid them much attention as my interests have always lain elsewhere. Until now.

On sunday a man delivered a new home PC. Reluctantly I decided to unpack and install it myself. Imagine my surprise when it was up and running in no time at all. The feeling of satisfaction plus the general feeling of dirtiness, after scrabbling around on the floor under a desk handling cables and fondling plugs was almost sensual.

Now I find myself draw to my PC at every opportunity. The urge to burn, mix and fade is too erotic to resist. It's shiney sleekness takes my breathe away. The urge to gently caress my mouse is overwhelming. This is having a detriemental effect on my home life.

My question is ...am I becoming a Geek?

Yours,
Worried from Peterborough


PS: Watch out for the 'JB Sisters Mixes' on ebay. Factory pressed, limited edition, fan club issue, number 1 out of 1, blah, blah, etc etc. On a bi-weekly basis.

Join the club sunshine!!!!

Paddy

Johnny Boy wrote:Dear Heartland,

My question is ...am I becoming a Geek?

Yours,
Worried from Peterborough

I see you too have succombed. It's like the Invasion of the Body Snatchers. At one moment you are a normal human being going about your daily routine oblivious to those who have already been snatched. Then....suddenly you are trying to resist the calling, that thing that pulls you toward it....bitrate, cdex, nero, blank disks, Weeding....post counts etc.

Suddenly one day from out of nowhere, you're one of THEM.

As QB put it so succinctly, From Goth to Geek, in a matter of months.



Well I think Andrew would be proud as he's King Geek himself.

Dear John (I always wanted to start a letter with that)

I ordered a new MoBo (RAID, Serial ATA, Dual BIOS, Dual Channel DDR), a gig of RAM, AMD CPU as well as a new case and floppy drive for myself this morning. I ordered unassembled so it'd arrive here quicker, wanna come around and help me put it all together? We can drink Jolt cola and talk Star Wars and Lord Of The Rings.

I'll probably have to reinstall the OSes (Dual boot XP Pro and Linux Manrake 9.2). Should be loads of fun!

hallucienate wrote: I ordered a new MoBo (RAID, Serial ATA, Dual BIOS, Dual Channel DDR), a gig of RAM, AMD CPU as well as a new case and floppy drive for myself this morning.

hallucienate wrote: I ordered unassembled so it'd arrive here quicker, wanna come around and help me put it all together?

hallucienate wrote:We can drink Jolt cola and talk Star Wars and Lord Of The Rings.

hallucienate wrote:I'll probably have to reinstall the OSes (Dual boot XP Pro and Linux Manrake 9.2).

hallucienate wrote:Should be loads of fun!

MONSTER GEEK!

Dear John

The hardware is here. You coming over?

hallucienate wrote:Dear John

The hardware is here. You coming over?

I'm sure Jeffrey Dahmer used a similar chat up line at some stage.

Dear Hal,

Love to but tonight I'm washing my hair. Numbers 86 and 117 to be precise.

Sincere apologises.

On a Mac tip, at home I have a very lovely G4 Quicksilver 1 Gig Mhz, 768Mb RAM, 80 Gig HD, 17" AppleVision, external floppy and Zip, whilst at work I have a G5 1.8 Gig Mhz, 1.5 Gig RAM, 120 Gig HD, 23" Sony flat, plasma screen type, dead flat and thin thingies, 2 DVD burners, external floppy and Zip.
Can I join the club? I come complete with Flamin' Hot Monster Munch or Pickled Onion flave if the hot one's too racey

Johnny Boy wrote:Dear Heartland,

Throughout my working career I have come into contact with a number of PCs. I've never paid them much attention as my interests have always lain elsewhere. Until now.

On sunday a man delivered a new home PC. Reluctantly I decided to unpack and install it myself. Imagine my surprise when it was up and running in no time at all. The feeling of satisfaction plus the general feeling of dirtiness, after scrabbling around on the floor under a desk handling cables and fondling plugs was almost sensual.

Now I find myself draw to my PC at every opportunity. The urge to burn, mix and fade is too erotic to resist. It's shiney sleekness takes my breathe away. The urge to gently caress my mouse is overwhelming. This is having a detriemental effect on my home life.

My question is ...am I becoming a Geek?

Yours,
Worried from Peterborough


PS: Watch out for the 'JB Sisters Mixes' on ebay. Factory pressed, limited edition, fan club issue, number 1 out of 1, blah, blah, etc etc. On a bi-weekly basis.

Dear Worried of Peterborough
Not not at all,this little dear here on my desk had the same affect on me when I first got it.From crappy Windows Me in a boring buff case with crappy specs to this all black & silver beast with 3 times better everything and nice XP.Yum
You only know your sad when you copy albums to the hardrive & it puts piccies of the covers in your documents folder and you get excited over that
Yours
Auntie Angel

Red Sunsets wrote: Flamin' Hot Monster Munch or Pickled Onion flave if the hot one's too racey

No Mac users. Form your own group. One with only one mouse button.

Meh. My Mac mouse has two buttons! Admittedly, they both do the same thing...

markfiend wrote:Meh. My Mac mouse has two buttons! Admittedly, they both do the same thing...

Heh, get a PC. My mouse has 5 buttons and a scrolly wheel. Or maybe it's a little to complicated for you?

CellThree wrote:

markfiend wrote:Meh. My Mac mouse has two buttons! Admittedly, they both do the same thing...

Heh, get a PC. My mouse has 5 buttons and a scrolly wheel. Or maybe it's a little to complicated for you?

Agreed. Five is a good number of mouse buttons to have.

what the?! my mouse has 2- what do the others do then?

ryan_w_0000 wrote:what the?! my mouse has 2- what do the others do then?

Most mice you can assign functions to the extra buttons, such as copy, paste, open an explorer window, whatever you want really. but it depends on the software you get with the mice

my mouse only has 2 buttons too... i miss my scrolly wheely thingy

I use an eight button mouse on my Mac.

Button seven is programmed to toss out random insults.

You're a f**king idiot.

@ cocoamix:

cocoamix wrote:I use an eight button mouse on my Mac.

Button seven is programmed to toss out random insults.

You're a **** idiot.

j



Wow a mouse with Turret's Syndrome.

Actually, it does have 8 buttons.

In addition, I CAN program it to generate random insults, simply by mapping a button to exectue a UNIX Shell script or an AppleScript that grabs a random line in a text file full of insults.

Also, it's spelled "Tourette's."

You f**king moron.

Yep, button 7 still works.

<sniggers at last few posts> How long is it till we subside into 'may Dad's bigger than yours' territory?

cocoamix, dear, you KILL me. LMAO!!!

hallucienate wrote:No Mac users. Form your own group. One with only one mouse button.

!@#$% you, Hal! My mouse has 2 functioning buttons *and* a fun scroll wheelie, so

cocoamix wrote:Actually, it does have 8 buttons.

Also, it's spelled "Tourette's."

Well, judging from the look of it, "turret syndrome" is actually not too far off.