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Cherry ([personal profile] cherry) wrote2006-07-30 09:32 pm

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I have come to the conclusion that technology must just hate me. Either that, or I just have some sort of wonky electrical field (which is partially true -- I am the queen of static electricity).

Exhibit A: The Great Computer Meltdown of '04 and the exploding logic board of '06.

Exhibit B: Within a week, three computers commonly used by me and around me died.

Exhibit C: Yesterday, I had to return my three-month-old printer for a new one. I've had this one for three months because the one I had before that died after nine. I took that one because the one I'd had for a year kerploded.

Exhibit D: My land line phone is dying an excruciating death.

Exhibit E: Photoshop (and other programs) have been known to exhibit behaviour about me previously unseen by technical professionals and the like. "Huh, no, there isn't supposed to be a monkey in CS2. No, that program is SUPPOSED to open .wmvs as well... No, the pixels aren't supposed to be dribbling sideways across the screen."


I'm going to start a deevolution. There will be rocks, and chisels, and we shall use the latter to transcribe data onto the former.



In other news: new icon, yay! Is it Torchwood yet?
tellitslant: agatha making a shushing gesture (doctor - prime - marry the girl)

[personal profile] tellitslant 2006-07-31 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
Holy crap! Possibly I am rethinking the bringing of my laptop this weekend. ;)

[identity profile] cherryice.livejournal.com 2006-07-31 01:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I promise not to touch it!

(Also, btw, I know it's a screen grab, and I know admitting this is going to make me look like a giant dork, but: the missing comma on your icon throws me every time. I keep thinking: 11-ish?)

*loses*
tellitslant: agatha making a shushing gesture (doctor - prime - marry the girl)

[personal profile] tellitslant 2006-07-31 02:40 pm (UTC)(link)
*cracks up* I actually thought about photoshopping a comma in there, because it was bothering me too. Psychic bond! ;)

[identity profile] cherryice.livejournal.com 2006-07-31 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
You want to know something even funnier? My original draft included an offer to photoshop it in there for you.

*WIN*
tellitslant: (cherry - we're not like the other girls)

[personal profile] tellitslant 2006-07-31 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
...we are made of fabulous.

[identity profile] cyberducks.livejournal.com 2006-07-31 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
You are cursed! I am a computer moron, which often causes me trouble of a different sort - but the equipment, while probably shuddering at my ineptitude, seems to last a normal life span. Knock on wood.

For my landline phone I am using my Nana's now - it's at least 30 years old. Works perfectly.

[identity profile] cherryice.livejournal.com 2006-07-31 01:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Seriously, rocks and chisels and abacuses.