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• 2012-04-16

  If my grandma can do it, so can you

  Received the following note from my 89 year old grandmother over the weekend.  I’m amazed at the ability of the Dell support rep to walk her through this although I have to wonder why he didn’t just advise her to buy a new computer.

  “Yesterday from 4:20 pm to 7:00 pm with the help of a 24 year old Dell technician in Bangalore, I installed 4 new “1GBmemory” in the tower of my computer!  I NEVER would have ordered the 4 new 1GBmemory if I’d realized what I’d have to do - I’d simply have gotten a new computer.  I was told a Dell technician would help me install them, but  WOW - I had to take out 8 plugs, take the back off the tower, take off an inside cover, remove 2 old memory things, install the 4 new ones, then put everything back in place.  One problem re replacing the inside cover - so a local area Dell trained technician will call me Monday or Tuesday and come and put the inside - and then the outside - cover back on the tower.  But except for that, everything is okay.  Adarsh, the 24 year old technician, said my sons and grandsons won’t believe I did it!  (I told him how old I was!). 
  
  Aren’t you proud of me!!!!!!!  I’m giving myself a GOLD MEDAL!!!!!!!”

• 2011-11-01

  Happy Halloween!

  animalsbeingdicks:

  

  Jeffrey wasn’t sure why no one would hang around with him anymore. Maybe it was his new deodorant?

  Source: animalsbeingdicks

• 2011-10-27

  the understatement: Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support

  understatementblog:

  The announcement that Nexus One users won’t be getting upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich led some to justifiably question Google’s support of their devices. I look at it a little differently: Nexus One owners are lucky. I’ve been researching the history of OS updates on Android phones…

  Source: understatementblog

• 2011-10-25

  

  chrismenning:

  (via A Simple Matter Of Taste)

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  Source: BuzzFeed

• 2011-10-21

  

  nevver:

  From the Patent Office

  (via ilovecharts)

  Source: nevver

• 2011-09-10

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  Ants!!!

• 2011-07-21

  merlin:

  U2 - “Gloria” (1981)

  Just for reference, this is what U2 looked like when I was watching the MTV.

  Now, please excuse me while I organize my hard candies and wait to get eaten by my cats.

  Source: youtube.com

• 2011-05-25

  

  ctaphotos:

  Richard Branson rides the EL.

  Source: ctaphotos

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  Quibbitch [sic] gloves

• 2011-05-24

  

  Four for four