On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 01:43 -0500,
FoulDragon@aol.com wrote:
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this one is too good to pass on
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> What's the worst is when you not only have to keep someone else's box
> alive, but they fight every step of the way.
>
> My brother's convinced he saves disc space by removing the archive bit
> from the files on the hard disc.
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idle hands are the devils playground might apply here
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> He also clears all caches and most cookies after every session, the
> cache for the same reason.
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Obsessive compulsive - endearing qualities
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> The hard disc is 20Gb, of which 4 has been consumed. He's on a 56k
> connection, so it won't exactly fill fast.
>
> He's also a spam freak. Never posts anywhere or registers for
> anything, even things he may enjoy, from spam fear.
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and some people like spam just to get emails
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> He'll litany for ages about the evils of Google. "Relevance isn't a
> mathematical thing." Yes. However, we're doing what we can.
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I'm not paranoid, they really are out to get me...love that
The evils of Google? from someone who uses Windows?
Wanna mess with his mind? Google his name
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> AFAICT, Google is not out to eat my soul. Besides, it's already
> chewed on, who would want it.
>
> Things like cleaning heatsinks enrage him.
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modern medication can probably help here.
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> He failed "MS Office for idiots." No "I took 4 years of classes and
> passed with all awards" will make my statements mean anything to him.
>
> I want to cram his head into a 120mm fan and power it on.
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a little latent rage to go around I suppose. But every family seems to
have their own brand of dysfunctional. I would recommend of course to
consider just how much you share genetically with him and be certain to
keep yourself grounded.
Seriously though, I just finished (like tonight) the latest book by
Carrie Fisher - The Best Awful - fictional account (likely to be at
least semi-autobiographical) about being bi-polar. It was extremely
funny and of course causes the reader to wonder about those around him.
It seems to me that if security was of utmost importance to him, he
shouldn't be using Windows - how's he ever going to know which software
is reporting home, keystroke logging, spying on him?
;-)
Craig
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