This whole week (and part of last) I have been progamming Wireless Access Points for a large grocery distribution center in Bellevue. Actually, last week I was in Spokane. Anyway, here in Bellevue they put me up in one of their meeting rooms so I could spread out and do my job. Quite nice of them. This room had a TV in one of the corners, and seeing as I had 130 units to program and each one took over 6 minutes. I had a lot of free time on my hands. In small 5 minute chunks. So I watched a lot of TV. However, the system they have only allows local channels and national news networks. So i watched a lot of boring TV.

Today though, I watched something out of the normal. For the last 2 days I stayed mostly with MSNBC and heard the name "Condit" more times then I ever needed to hear in my life. So today i turned to some channel called Tech TV. I should have done this days ago. This channel was pretty sad to say the best. It was a bunch of younger (I'd say mid 20's) people talking about new technology. The thing that really got me though, was some segment where they took calls from around the country live on their show. One guy from Maine called in to ask if he should have the little switch on his power supply set to "115 or 230." Ummm, people this retarded shouldn't own a fucking computer. He later went on to say as he was "messing with his computer" (why??) he had it on his lap and was turning it over when he heard something inside moving around. His question was, should he turn the computer on or take it in somewhere to get service. Easy enough question to answer I thought. Oh how wrong I was. The idiot on the show told the guy not to turn his computer on, then asked the guy if he had a digital camera. Mr. Maine confirmed. Idiot show boy then asked the guy to carefully open up his computer, take a picture of the inside, and then email the picture to him at idiotboy@techtv.com. My jaw dropped.

Didn't he just tell Mr. Maine not to turn his computer on? Mr. Maine sat there for a minute. You could actually HEAR him thinking it through. He finally uttered, "um, but I can't turn my computer on." Idiot Boy stood there for a second, then quipped out, "so, don't you have 2 computers like everyone else?"

I turned the channel at this point. The really sad thing, Idiot Boy most likely makes a hell of a lot more money then I do.

posted 8/29/2001 05:58:36 PM




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