Ahh, computer geeks

Mood: Sick, but happy
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So... Shawn and I are officially nerds. Want proof?

11:17:11 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: eek
11:19:19 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: ?
11:19:28 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: *shrugs*
11:19:42 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: but yeah, anyways, my computer won't boot Windows anymore
11:19:57 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: and seeing as how that's the only OS on it, I'm kinda fucked right now
11:19:57 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: hahahaha
11:20:06 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: wow
11:20:08 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: windoze sucks
11:20:14 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: I think a sector w/ some critical Windows files may have gone bad
11:20:21 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: sector of my HD*
11:20:27 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: i was gonna say
11:20:30 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: files don't just spoil
11:21:46 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: it's that or a virus that wiped my computer out in no time flat
11:21:53 AM niclake13@hotmail.com:
11:21:55 AM niclake13@hotmail.com:
11:22:30 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: I think my boss is going to loan me a HD out of the ResNet junkyard which I'll lose to see what I can do w/ the drive and the data on it.
11:22:46 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: they have a junkyard?
11:23:52 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: yup
11:25:07 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: most of it gets pulled out at the beginning of the year as a "Training Obstacle Course" in which the leads setup the computers w/ various problems to give the new guys a little experience troubleshooting computers before the Week of Hell
11:25:26 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: ahha
11:25:33 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: i love how you guys have names for all that
11:26:09 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: well the Week of Hell I kinda just gave it a name now. It doesn't have an official name, but everyone would know what I mean.
11:26:22 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: lol
11:26:23 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: yeah
11:27:52 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: when you end up spending all your time from the moment you wake up until the moment you go to sleep doing ResNet stuff to the point you start dreaming and having nightmares about computers, everyone knows what week you're talking about
11:28:16 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: *snort*
11:28:31 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: maybe you're just pussygay
11:29:44 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: no, it's not just me. We'd all share our latest horror stories everytime the group got together for meals and such.
11:30:04 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: well, maybe all of ResNet is pussygay
11:30:09 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: and ITS is the way to be
11:30:18 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: lol, yeah, that's never happening
11:30:24 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: heh
11:30:33 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: you guys would never survive our first week
11:30:36 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: i've determined why I get payed more than you, though
11:30:43 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: actually, we go through the same stuff
11:30:47 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: essentially
11:31:21 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: not from what we got told by you guys this year
11:31:28 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: don't say "you guys"
11:31:35 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: lol
11:31:35 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: say "the idiot ITS people at the ITTC"
11:31:43 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: all of ITS
11:31:48 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: hells no
11:32:09 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: we get paid more because our collective bosses are retarded dumbshits, and someone somewhere realizes that we actually know far more than them and want to keep us around
11:32:20 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: the ITSCC, though... they're just retarded
11:32:22 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: literally
11:32:24 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: we bash them daily
11:32:27 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: 1) your department doesn't have to deal directly with the people. You're setting up labs which you control
11:32:43 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: right
11:32:43 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: but
11:32:44 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: 2)
11:33:06 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: we have to deal with dumb shits that don't know what the difference between a scroll wheel and a reset button are (true story)
11:33:24 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: ??
11:33:25 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: and that's a lab monitor
11:33:36 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: I was in the lab at the Towers yesterday
11:33:39 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: it's not my fault you let stupid people run your labs
11:33:46 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: again
11:33:57 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: see above at 11:32:09 on why we get paid more
11:34:06 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: because someone's department hires dumb shits
11:34:12 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: and the lab monitor was trying to "fix" the com with us
11:34:14 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: comp*
11:34:25 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: i told her to hit the reset button
11:34:35 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: and I heard the annoying noise of a scroll wheel being turned
11:34:37 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: repeatedly
11:34:38 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: then
11:34:40 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: "it doesn't work"
11:34:42 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: that's still your deparment's fault and thus you all take the blame. Same as I get the blame for the dumbasses sending me out on appointments to change their network settings from static ip address to automatic
11:34:54 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: haha
11:34:55 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: yeah
11:34:58 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: that's retarded
11:35:02 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: but
11:35:09 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: we have no control over how dumb they are
11:35:16 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: it's our job to cover it up as best we can
11:35:21 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: and make us look as good as possible
11:35:24 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: which is tough
11:35:24 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: you just have to hire the smart people
11:35:28 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: we do
11:35:49 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: we just don't have enough payroll to hire enough smart people to counteract the volume of stupid bosses
11:36:16 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: see, we have to deal with the masses on their fucked up computers. That's where it gets really interesting. He get to have no clue what's been done to the machine before we start working on it.
11:36:17 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: lol
11:36:24 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: that's still your department's fault!
11:36:35 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: what do lab monitors get paid??
11:36:40 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: actually, that's the university's fault
11:36:42 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: no clue
11:36:54 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: since the university doesn't allocate enough payroll for smart people
11:36:56 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: so
11:36:57 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: therefore
11:37:06 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: since we all fall under university sanctions
11:37:13 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: ResNet sucks just as hard
11:37:17 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: it's algebra
11:37:21 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: we get paid less than you and we still have all sorts of smart people
11:37:22 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: and discrete structures
11:37:46 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: but your department and bosses are the ones who hire lab monitors, right??
11:37:59 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: ironicly enough, no
11:38:16 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: we're connected, but not technically related to the SCC
11:38:28 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: what's you're department??
11:38:33 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: or at least, the management/workers of the SCC
11:38:42 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: but we still fix all the SCC stuff
11:38:44 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: it's fucked up
11:39:18 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: you'd think they could allocate resnet, itscc, and its scc all together
11:39:20 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: but no
11:39:53 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: dor wants to have their pussygay ways of having some control (resnet) over something they really have no idea about (its)
11:39:56 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: I can understand separating them out
11:39:58 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: completely different departments
11:40:15 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: seperation, yes... having them allocated under different departments and 12 gazillion bosses?
11:40:16 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: no
11:40:25 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: yeah, I agree w/ you there.
11:41:01 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: so what's scc stand for anyways??
11:41:29 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: student computer center (???)
11:41:59 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: ish
11:42:07 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: ResNet should be considered ITS NC (network center) ish
11:42:15 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: *nod*
11:42:21 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: or just ITS - ResNet
11:42:45 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: see
11:42:51 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: this is why young people need to run things
11:42:55 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: we're not stupid
11:42:56 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: ish
11:43:04 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: *blink*
11:43:24 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: no, you can't use ITS-ResNet because that doesn't follow the pattern of ending in Center
11:43:30 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: haha
11:43:37 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: well, it's not ITS CCC
11:43:39 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: just CC
11:43:39 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: you could argue for ITS RC
11:43:42 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: computer consulting
11:43:54 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: oh, I thought it was consulting center...damn
11:44:09 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: well, that's what they say
11:44:12 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: computer consulting center
11:44:17 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: but there's only 2 c's
11:44:24 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: therefore
11:44:29 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: someone fucked up along the lines somewhere
11:45:30 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: so
11:45:33 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: we need a martyr
11:45:39 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: someone to suck it up for the team
11:45:41 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: go in
11:45:42 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: well I meant that the CC = consulting center rather than Computer consulting
11:45:46 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: tell UNI how stupid they are
11:45:55 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: get ITS collaberated all together
11:45:59 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: and get killed
11:46:00 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: or
11:46:02 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: particularly b/c computer consulting doesn't make for much of a name as it ends in a verb...
11:46:08 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: if they don't get killed by UNI
11:46:13 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: we can either...
11:46:21 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: a) throw them into a barrel of monkeys
11:46:23 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: real ones
11:46:52 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: b) run around naked in back country Iowa during the winter "celebrating"
11:46:55 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: or c)
11:47:10 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: go find Shawn's computer and stare at a blue screen of death
11:47:26 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: I don't even get a fucking blue screen of death!
11:47:37 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: until a mac fanatic gets frustrated at the ugly color and kicks the computer into the guys head, causing his immediate demise
11:47:40 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: eek
11:47:41 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: ok
11:47:45 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: scratch plan c
11:47:51 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: might computer just sits in an infinite loop of restarting unless a user interrupts it
11:48:05 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: *blink*
11:48:17 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: it flashes the "Windows Blue Screen of Death" very briefly right before restarting itself
11:48:37 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: it's ominous
11:48:55 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: it's a warning
11:48:55 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: like
11:48:59 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: "fix me, or die!"
11:49:08 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: a suicidal computer
11:49:14 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: you're it's CC
11:49:17 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: crisis center
11:49:17 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: see
11:49:19 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: lol
11:49:25 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: that one had a "center" on the end
11:49:30 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: that made sense
11:49:38 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: we could incorperate that into the "new" ITS dept.
11:49:43 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: a suicidal hotline
11:49:46 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: that the computers call
11:50:30 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: we'd need blue poles all around campus though for the ones getting raped by viri
11:50:38 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: and yes, I just said viri
11:51:24 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: *snort*
11:51:25 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: viri?
11:51:27 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: who's viri?
11:51:40 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: would we have escort services available?
11:51:42 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: like
11:51:48 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: random guys carrying around laptop bags?
11:52:33 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: we'd have to do intensive screening before hiring them
11:52:41 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: and that would cost more money...
11:52:42 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: dang
11:54:11 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: ooo
11:54:13 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: better idea
11:54:18 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: instead of sacrificing a martyr
11:54:24 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: we'll just use that barrel of monkeys
11:54:32 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: set them loose at the next board meeting
11:54:41 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: we might need more than laptops though. What about the desktop computers being raped in their dorm rooms by Viri (aka viruses)
11:54:41 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: *mutter* I'll have to work on my evil laugh
11:54:52 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: SWAT
11:55:01 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: that's what I was thinking
11:55:07 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: rappelling from the roof
11:55:09 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: they wouldn't see it coming
11:55:33 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: as for a barrel full of monkeys at the next board meeting, I don't think that'll have much effect. They'll just be wondering why so many more people showed up to their meeting.
11:55:42 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: hm
11:55:43 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: good point
11:56:21 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: a barrel full of leprechauns?
11:57:11 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: wait
11:57:15 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: what effect would that have?
11:57:18 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: they'd just throw money
11:57:19 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: *mutter*
11:58:46 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: any ideas?
11:59:16 AM marshmallow7@hotmail.com: just a sec, phone call
11:59:30 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: propaganda! lies!
11:59:39 AM niclake13@hotmail.com: they're trying to trick you!!! Don't give in!
12:00:20 PM niclake13@hotmail.com: ooo
12:00:22 PM niclake13@hotmail.com: i got it
12:00:30 PM niclake13@hotmail.com: we challenge them using our inner nerd skills
12:00:40 PM niclake13@hotmail.com: to a best-of-3 series of Pong(tm)

*blink*

-Nic