Randomness

TheCentralScrutinizer · 07 May 08 :: 00:09

My brand new laptop wouldn't boot up when I got home from work last night. Brought it to work with me today because I thought I was going to get a FedEx box to send it off to be fixed. Didn't happen. But Joe just glared at it and it booted right up for him. Go figure! Looks like all is OK now (knock wood). But if you guys don't see me online tonight, it's only because something's wrong with the machine.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 07 May 08 :: 01:39

Well, I'm here and everything's OK right now. Everyone send me all your best computer mojo.

magicalturkey · 07 May 08 :: 01:42

If it breaks on you, I'll take over for Joe and glare at it. My stink-eye covers thousands of miles

TheCentralScrutinizer · 07 May 08 :: 01:56

Great. It's always advisable to have back-up stink-eye. Thanks!

TheCentralScrutinizer · 07 May 08 :: 18:51

This is illuminating...

Things That Will Never Happen
5-7-8
"Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances. --Dr. Lee DeForest, "Father of Radio & Grandfather of Television."
"The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives." --Admiral William Leahy, US Atomic Bomb Project
"There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom." --Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." --Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." --Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." --The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957
"But what .. is it good for?" commenting on the microchip. --Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." --Bill Gates, 1981
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us," --Western Union internal memo, 1876.
"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value.
Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular" --in response to urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s. David Sarnoff' Associates.
"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible,"
-- A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
"I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falls on his face, not Gary Cooper," --Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in Gone With The Wind.
"A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make," -- Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies.
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out," -- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible," -- Lord Kelvin, president Royal Society, 1895.
"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this," -- Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" Notepads.
"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy," -- Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil, 1859.
"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." -- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University , 1929.
"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value," -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre, France.
"Everything that can be invented has been invented," -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899.
"The super computer is technologically impossible. It would take all of the water that flows over Niagara Falls to cool the heat generated by the number of vacuum tubes required. "Professor of Electrical Engineering, New York University.
"I don't know what use any one could find for a machine that would make copies of documents. It certainly couldn't be a feasible business by itself. -the head of IBM, refusing to back the idea, forcing the inventor to found Xerox.
"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction." -- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872.
"The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon," -- Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873.
And last but not least...
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." -- Ken Olson, president, chairman, founder of Digital Equipment Corp. 1977.

TeeJay · 07 May 08 :: 20:00

Sisterdebmac wrote:

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." -- Ken Olson, president, chairman, founder of Digital Equipment Corp. 1977.

No, I certainly can't think of a single one (she typed on her computer at home).

-TeeJay

domesticelefant · 07 May 08 :: 20:21

Sisterdebmac wrote:

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." --Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

Hahaha. Love that one too! (Did know it already, though.)

TheCentralScrutinizer · 07 May 08 :: 22:04

"I don't know what use any one could find for a machine that would make copies of documents. It certainly couldn't be a feasible business by itself. -the head of IBM, refusing to back the idea, forcing the inventor to found Xerox.

That one really cracked me up. Yeah, who needs copies?

TheCentralScrutinizer · 09 May 08 :: 20:36

This is one of the saddest, and somehow most beautiful things I've ever seen...

TeeJay · 09 May 08 :: 21:50

Yes, it is sad and beautiful in its own way. Sometimes I wonder why you often see homeless people with pets (usually dogs, big dogs). You'd think that if they had to beg for money, there wouldn't be enough of it for them to feed themselves, why would they keep a pet that they had to feed on top?

-TeeJay

magicalturkey · 09 May 08 :: 22:00

Well, some dogs (especially my old dog) will eat anything they can fit in their mouth and chew if they're hungry.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 10 May 08 :: 03:34

TeeJay, if Lacey and I had ended up homeless --which was actually possible once --- I would fed her before I fed myself. She was my child for 16 years. You don't abandon your child when things get bad. Maybe you have to be a pet person to understand this. Maybe that's why the picture effects me so much.

BiggestChrisMarquetteFan · 10 May 08 :: 09:33

Great picture. It's sad but sweet.

TeeJay · 10 May 08 :: 09:43

Sisterdebmac wrote:

TeeJay, if Lacey and I had ended up homeless --which was actually possible once --- I would fed her before I fed myself.

Yeah, okay, I can totally understand that. This would apply to people who had the dog before they ended up homeless. But somehow I think a lot of these folks get the dog when they're already homeless. But that might just be false perception on my part.

-TeeJay

magicalturkey · 10 May 08 :: 13:34

But somehow I think a lot of these folks get the dog when they're already homeless. But that might just be false perception on my part.

That might happen too, but they wouldn't go into a pet store and buy a purebred puppy for thousands of dollars. Most of them could just be strays. But if they did go to a pound or something and get a dog, it might actually be smart, dogs do a much better job at begging for food than people do

shoothoops22 · 10 May 08 :: 13:57

I get out of school may 23!:)

TheCentralScrutinizer · 10 May 08 :: 18:18

I think you'll find that most homeless people with pets had them BEFORE they became homeless and refuse to give them up. Which may even be one reason they're on the streets instead of in shelters. The shelters won't take dogs. There were tons of stories after Katrina about people who died because they wouldn't leave their pets behind. And there are stories about battered women who won't leave because shelters will take them with their kids, but not with their pets. A lot of pet parents are pretty hardcore about it. The site where I found that pic had two others of homeless people with pets. St. Francis would be proud.

BiggestChrisMarquetteFan · 11 May 08 :: 07:31

shoothoops22 wrote:

I get out of school may 23!:)

Me too!! The last 2 days are half days for me. I'll be exempting my 2nd exam on Friday so I'll be able to leave even earlier. = )

Illinoisguy1 · 11 May 08 :: 15:22

A little sad news.

My roommate had a stroke yesterday. They took him to one hospital then airlifted him to another.

I have no idea how severe it really is yet. All I know is that he's still in the hospital.

He's only in his 30's.

TeeJay · 11 May 08 :: 17:13

Wow, that's indeed sad. Hope he makes it. A very good friend of mine died very suddenly in his home a few years ago, he was only 34. They said it was an infection of his heart muscles and his heart just gave out overnight. All he'd had symptoms of was a head cold. We were all shocked. A quick death might be preferable for the person dying, but it's twice as hard on the people he/she leaves behind.

My thoughts are with your roommate today.

-TeeJay

TheCentralScrutinizer · 11 May 08 :: 18:38

Sorry to hear that, Illinois. Let us know when you find out what's going on.

BiggestChrisMarquetteFan · 11 May 08 :: 21:15

I hope everything gets better for your roommate, Illinoisguy. I hope he recovers quickly.

Illinoisguy1 · 12 May 08 :: 21:13

My other roommate who went with him to the hospital is at work today so I don't have an update other that he's still in the hospital.

domesticelefant · 13 May 08 :: 20:34

I hope he gets better soon!

Good Lord, work was annoying today! I sat there for three hours with a not really working font program and couldn't do anything. My boss couldn't either. Haha. Well, at least I get paid for it. LOL

TeeJay · 13 May 08 :: 20:40

(Might be a fake, though. Anyone could have put that writing on there electronically... It's still funny.)

-TeeJay

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