Goblins. Very small, nasty goblins. The same ones that sneak into the radioactive room and feed the printer paper back in on itself, thus causing all my results to be printed on top of each other on the same line. They are malicious creatures, and their depravity knows no bounds. I am sure that they also make their way into cell culture and spit in the cells to infect them. They also steal DNA from beneath your very nose. Once they stole Arwens polymerase. They are nasty, tricksy and we must always be wary of their sneaky ways.
Computers aren't predictable or reliable in any sense of the words - we geeks are called computer scientists merely in an attempt to make ordinary mortals think we're clever and superior. Running programs is an art form, and can be affected by many things - interaction between the outer planets, the cost of Tupperware boxes in Taiwan, and whether you sacrificed enough pizza to the Turing Demon before hitting the Enter key. If you think hard enough, I'm sure you'll remember abandoning the computer just as it started a very complex bit of code and really needed your support and encouragement. That you needed food/sleep/the bathroom is no excuse. Computers are highly strung.
Try hitting it with a hammer before the next run. Even if it doesn't help you'll feel better :-)
I thought all computers had a "Critical Need Detector" that kicks in at the appropriate moment to remind us how grateful we should all be of their very existence.
Thanks guys, its certainly being a horrible day! My only hope now is to stay late in an attempt to write, whilst trying to persuade aomeone more component than I to look at it (!)
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My bad. :)
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Try hitting it with a hammer before the next run. Even if it doesn't help you'll feel better :-)
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Either that or cosmic rays.
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