by Nik on May 22, 2009
in Humor
I have two items for you on this Friday before the long Memorial Day weekend.
First up, if your Windows PC presents a screen like this photo I found on Ask The Admin when you try to start it up, something isn’t right. But if you look a bit closer you’ll see that it’s really quite a bit more abnormal than it appears. Or should I say, abngrmadl?
Start Wandows Ngrmadly
Second, Something Awful took Wolfram Alpha for a spin this week, just like the rest of us, with some humorously informative queries. Humorous because they start off by asking what portion of the US Gross National Product is represented by the film Ernest Goes to Camp and just get stranger from there, and informative because they illustrate the sort of data sets Wolfram Alpha has access to. Fair warning: Something Awful contains material of questionable taste and may not always be appropriate for work or children. There’s nothing too awful in this one, though. You can read the complete story here.
Ernest Goes to Camp as a percentage of the US Gross National Product
Have a great weekend, everybody!
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by Michelle on May 14, 2009
in Tips
This afternoon I received an email with an attachment from a co-worker. She happens to sit across the aisle from me and, before I’d even realized I had an email to look at, she said, “That file won’t open for some reason, but it opens in Excel.”
Curious, I went to see what she was talking about. Here is an (edited) shot of the header of that email:
Email header from Outlook, showing the attachment.
Did you notice the generic-looking icon on that attachment? This is the primary clue to what’s wrong with this file: it doesn’t know what program it belongs to.
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When I was young I enjoyed drawing. Not artistic drawing, but diagrams and architectural drawings, often on graph paper. I thought that I could perhaps be an architect when I grew up. I remember once, when the only computer we had in the house was an already ancient Compaq “Portable” computer (the sturdy leather handle did little to relieve the back strain that carrying it could cause) with an add-on EGA monitor, I asked for a program that would let me create these sorts of drawings on the computer. I didn’t know about CAD (computer aided design) software at the time, and was ignorant that the CAD software of the day was expensive and wouldn’t work on our old PC. My dad took me to a local software store anyway, where it was quickly apparent that all I was going to find there was a DOS based painting program, with aproximately the drawing ability of Microsoft Paint. We left empty-handed.
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