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I once read an article by a web marketer saying that he was outside gardening and stumbled upon a curious flower. He thought for a brief moment that he could "right click" on it to view it's properties!
Anyone else mixing up the "real world" from the web? Not to ,emtion dreaming about search engine algos.
BTW. I'm not proud, just honest. :)
My first reaction was to hit CTRL+Z.
I thought I could just undo the shot. I'm such a nerd.
- Chad
We *are* the extreme examples I think. Right Clicking a flower, undoing a golf shot- that really makes me laugh. And I guess that, in and off itself, qualifies me for the "mixed up" group. Realistically, ever other night, I dream about G ranking. Call it sick, or call it our careers and our passion.... personally speaking, I am a proud card carrying member.
[edited by: Chicago at 3:45 am (utc) on June 19, 2003]
Note quite an online thing, but I have caught myself wondering why they couldn't just spawn another chef process on a busy night at the sushi bar. Surely that would get my order ready much faster :)
Decided to continue the damn work, instead of turning my head towards laptop's screen, I've alt-tabbed on keyboard 2-3 times.
Right now, I'm having a huge mental clash over the difference between pencil/pen artwork (which I used to do ALL the time) and why the paper and pens don't work the same way photoshop does. Why can't I just open a new layer, copy the sketch into it, and crank up the contrast a bit before I ink it?
<added>When I chuckle inwardly about something, I usually think "LOL" to myself...</added>
Once when I was sleeping I got woke up only to say "email me"
A few days ago I was driving away from a junction and I stalled the car. First though "re-boot"
Mack.
When I chuckle inwardly about something, I usually think "LOL" to myself...
Onya
Woz
I find myself
CTRL+Z
CTRL+C
CTRL+V
CTRL+B
CTRL+N
CTRL+S
CTRL+F
CTRL+H
CTRL+K
….
I recently even CTRL+Z in various dreams.
It’s seems my whole life is just one big short cut ;)
Rich
When hand writing a letter (yes some of us still do :) ) when I made a mistake the first thing that comes to mind is ctrl+Z. Sometimes it also happend when I spend half an hour doing something non computer related and realized that what I did is worse that what it was originally: damn life would be simpler with a CTRL+Z key.
<to myself facing the mirror>
Yes doctor I took my pills this morning :)
</to myself facing the mirror>
Leo
Yesterday i saw Matrix Reloaded and in my dreams i started comparing it to SEO. Of course i was NEO and my boss was Morpheus and the Matrix was Google. God help me! :)
Subject: You know you're living in 2003 when...
1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.
2.You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.
3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.
4. You e-mail your mate who works at the desk next to you.
5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends is that they do not have e-mail addresses.
6. When you go home after a long day at work you still answer the phone in a business manner.
7. When you make phone calls from home, you accidentally do "0" to get an outside line.
8. You've sat at the same desk for four years and worked for three different companies.
10. Your CV is on a disk in your pocket.
11. You learn about your redundancy on the 11 o'clock news.
12. Your biggest loss from a system crash was when you lost all of your best jokes.
13. Your boss doesn't have the ability to do your job.
14. Contractors outnumber permanent staff and are more likely to get long-service awards.
15. Board members salaries are higher than all the Third World countries'annual budgets combined.
16. Interviewees, despite not having the relevant knowledge or experience, terminate the interview when told of the starting salary.
17. Free food left over from meetings is your staple diet.
18. Your boss gets a brand-new state-of-the-art laptop with all the latest features, but you have time to go for lunch while yours boots up.
19. Being sick is defined as you can't walk or you're in hospital.
20. There's no money in the budget for the five permanent staff your department desperately needs, but they can afford four full-time management consultants advising your boss's boss on strategy.
21. Your relatives and family describe your job as "works with computers".
22. You read this entire list, and kept nodding and smiling.
23. As you read this list, you think about forwarding it to your "friends"
24. You got this email from a friend that never talks to you any more, except to send you jokes from the net.
25. You are too busy to notice there was no N0 no. 9.
26. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a No.9
I've tried control C on my mother-in-law
Why would you want to copy your mother-in-law :)?
Leo
Chicago, I dream about Google stuff too. Actually, it's quite annoying!
Well spotted!
Can I say it was a deliberate mistake?
.........or could it be that I love my mother in-law so much that I would like to copy her?
.............or could it be I'm extremely stupid and meant to say format C.
I'm obviously spending fat too much time on my computer!
Answers on an e-card please to
The Answer Is C
etc etc.
[edited by: peewhy at 1:01 pm (utc) on June 19, 2003]
What a nightmare, this t'internet lark!
My first reaction was to hit CTRL+Z.I thought I could just undo the shot. I'm such a nerd.
And mine was "what good would it do to move the golf process to the background?" (undo is CTRL+_ in my world)
Any NetHack fans here? If so, you'll understand why the idiot drivers on the way to work keep making me want to hit shift+z, a, enter.
Sad to say, ctrl-F was my first impulse.
uhhhmmmm.....well, yes.
My site is pretty photo intense and I'm constantly evaluating the world around me on it potential KB size and impact on load times.
(And just why is it so difficult to get a decent 1600 x 1200 pixel image down to 20k anyhow?)
A] Do you love me?
[thinking]
B] I cant answer. Dunno if it'd be better degraded as JPG or GIF.
[no.. I've not thrown away my pills.. doctor..]
Control Z --- Huh?
It undoes what you just did. --- Oh... How do you know all these things?
I guess that says it... Worse, I've been playing the new Zelda on my son's gamecube and after a weekend session playing at hero I was watching tv and wanted to use the yellow control stick to change my perspective... Needless to say, it didn't work.
LisaB
