Tech Humor

Computer humor just keeps crawling across my screen, especially when I am trying to do something new. You could call my path to geekdom a Comedy of Errors. The first time I got that "system failure" error message with the BOMB on it, my spine turned to jelly. What was I expecting? Smoke and cinders? I don't get many error messages with my Macs anymore, but I used to get plenty of them at work with your garden variety PCs. Still, I never saw anything as odd as the following pop up on me.

The Daily WTF is really funny if you understand it, which I only do about half the time.

 This really makes me laugh-weird popup messages, part one, part two, part three, and part four.

This one's not included in any commercial software; I just thought it was funny.

This may be the one that started the collection. (Thanks, Kate!)

Computer Proverbs
(lifted from Wulfweard the White)

1. Home is where you hang your @.
2. The E-mail of the species is more deadly than the mail.
3. You can't teach a new mouse old clicks.
4. Don't put all your hypes in one home page.
5. Too many clicks spoil the browse.
6. The geek shall inherit the earth.
7. Don't byte off more than you can view.
8. What boots up must come down.
9. A user and his leisure time are soon parted.
10. There's no place like www.home.com.

Computer user Sc4freak experimented with “submersion-cooling” and made himself some French fries at the same time. He literally deep-fried his computer! 

Geeks see people use computers in the movies and think “That ain’t right.” Well, some geeks would, although most don’t use the word “ain’t”. Those moments are compiled in Hollywood Laws of Computing. (via Look at This)

Gift for a geek: USB Missile Launcher

Alexander Feder is a geek in Austria. He is telling the story of how he expanded his apartment and converted it into a Geek Paradise. Follow along at Geek Flat. (via the Presurfer)

Weird Al Yankovic is White and Nerdy

OK, you’ve seent he video. Now take the quiz: How White and Nerdy are you?

How White and Nerdy Are You?

Dr. Seuss Computer Poem

If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
And the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report!

If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash,
And the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash,
And your data is corrupted 'cause the index doesn't hash,
Then your situation's hopeless, and your system's gonna crash!

If the label on the cable on the table at your house,
Says the network is connected to the button on your mouse,
But your packets want to tunnel on another protocol,
That's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall,

And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss
So your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse,
Then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang,
'Cause as sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang!

When the copy of your floppy's getting sloppy on the disk,
And the microcode instructions cause unnecessary RISC,
Then you have to flash your memory and you'll want to RAM your ROM.
Quickly turn off the computer and go and tell your mom!

Code Monkey

Previously on Miss Cellania: Tech Support, Tech Jokes 2.0, and Computer Trap Shoot

Thought for today: Shift to the left! Shift to the right! Pop up, push down, byte, byte, byte! (Thanks, Kirby!)

This post originally appeared on December 10, 2005. 

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Comments

[Kirby]

Snopes night on Miss Cellania.

Claim: Photograph shows RAND Corporation's 1954 design for a home computer.

Status: False.

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp

[Anita]

Hey Miss C.!

I love this post! I manage a computer team, so am accused of being pretty nerdy myself (but I only scored 42%, so I guess I'm not THAT nerdy). My brother-in-law even bought me a binary clock for Christmas (which my team seems to love).

Have a wonderful New Year's Eve/Day ... hope you're doing something fun!

[Skunkfeathers]

LOL...my nerd score was as low as I 'spected, since I have yet to (a) get much beyond on/off in Computer 101 and (b) I still haven't successfully found a method of snow removal that's as easy as point/delete/click ;-)

[Jean-Luc Picard]

I've just bought a new computer. How do you think it makes ne feel. Fortunately I'll have an engineer fit it.

[Xiphias]

"There's no place like www.home.com."

That's the AOL users version, the geek version is:

There's no place like 127.0.0.1

A couple more I like:

God is REAL, unless explicitly declared INTEGER.

A picture is worth a thousand words, but it uses up a thousand times the memory.

[Marti]

I thought "Home is where you hang your @" was HILARIOUS! LOL

Just wanted to wish you and your family a glorious New Year and say thank you for providing the blogosphere with so many laughs!

[actor212]

Now MissC...that error message that you got is no different than when a doctor says "The operation was a success, but the patient died," or when a Republican declares "Mission Accomplished"...

[muzik]

I once sent a file to my boss that opened a screen that looked exactly like a drive format dialogue. It asked "Format C:?" and even though you click "no" it opened a screen that said "Now formatting C:" and showed a status bar that slowly progressed to 100%.

She called the IT guys and I almost lost my job.

Live and learn.