What's mildly amusing you today?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Jag was pretty deeply entrenched in the system, but he might have had an aha moment, where the system either shit on him, or made him so much money it became boring.

[skysidhe]

My mother called this morning. She asked me to look up a sweet and sour recipe from my grandmother's cookbook.

So far I have found, 'Lime Mold','Indian Pudding', 'Liver and Bacon Fricassee' This book was published in 1931, Topeka, Kansas

It's amusing.

[Shawnee123]

Two funny things that happened at work today:

1) A student who had been in once before and was told (in person and in his email) what documentation we needed, and he came back with only about half of it. My cow orker told him he needed to bring it back when he had everything we need (the volume of stuff we get we don't keep partial sets of paperwork.) The guy was cussing and sputtering and told Jeff to go "piss up a rope." That makes me giggle, especially to hear Jeff tell it.

2) A woman left her purse behind so campus police was called to retrieve it (standard procedure, no one wants to be accused of stealing or anything) and the cop, Tracy, was looking through the purse to assess its contents, in front of witnesses, before taking it back to the cop shop. (Cops get accused of stealing too.) And what to their wondering eyes did appear, but a big old bag of weed. Guess that explains the absent-mindedness in leaving her purse behind. Oops.

[Griff]

Guess you shoulda stole it!

[footfootfoot]

shaw: Oh, hey wait. That's my purse. D'oh. Never mind.

[Lamplighter]

Our girls got together for their Mom's Xmas present... an iPad.
So the dutiful husband sets about getting iPad running.

1) Plugs iPad receptacle to start charging
2) Turns iPad ON and gets message to connect to iTunes
3) Connects to iMac with iTunes, and gets message to download current version of iTunes
4) Downloads current version of iTunes (10.1.1)
5) Launches current version of iTunes, and gets message requires Mac OS v10.5 or higher

6) Connects to Apple.com, OS v10.5 no longer sold, instead get OS 10.6
7) Husband calls Best Buy - can not give technical advise over phone
8) Husband calls Apple Tech Support - automated-answering-idiot recycles n-times
and finally gives up by summoning a human

9) Extremely courteous human technician gathers information (7 minutes)
10) Technician recommends options (a) (b) and (c):
a) upgrade iMac OS to 10.6 (cost $129 - transfer to sales ?)
..........agitated husband discusses cost to update all other software
b) replace existing iMac with a new computer !!!
..........agitated husband discusses cost to purchase AND update other software
c) use a MS PC to host Apple iPad !
..........agitated husband labels iPad as "the gift that keeps on giving"

11) Wife is not happy, daughters are not happy, but husband has not given up...
Tomorrow the iPad WILL mate with daughter's MS PC for better or for worse, until death do them part.

[footfootfoot]

I will print that out and hand it to all my mac using friends who ask me "Why did you switch to a pc?"

[skysidhe]

sorry lamp. You're so stoic, it's funny

[Lamplighter]

Tra La La La...

Mom's iPad matched up with 1st-daughter's PC, and is now romping around the internet.
Now for the learning curve and downloading "apps"... ($$$ )

So far Mom has found "free books" and "free games" so that will occupy for a while.

Relieved husband is returning to his comfortable, if outdated, iMac.

[Lamplighter]

Mom's iPad got tired of the internet and gave it up.
The home wireless network continued working fine, so it's iPad's fault.

Another call to Apple Tech Support found another very friendly lady
who had lots of time and lots of suggestions to change iPad's attitude.
But no joy, she transferred us to the higher authority, Senior iPad Technician, Shawn.

Just like an old joke Shawn says: "Pull the power plug from the
wireless router, and then plug it back in again.

Tra la la la ... Mom's iPad is now romping around the internet again,
and that's why they pay Shawn the big bucks.

[skysidhe]

My mom is learning to text, hehehe It's a beautiful thing.

[Lamplighter]

My Lab, Vicky, doesn't know as many words, but she is much smarter.
She listens intently to my commands, and then decides if she wants to do it, or not.

NY Times
Sit. Stay. Parse. Good Girl!
By NICHOLAS WADE
Published: January 17, 2011

Chaser, a border collie who lives in Spartanburg, S.C.,
has the largest vocabulary of any known dog.

She knows 1,022 nouns, a record that displays unexpected depths
of the canine mind and may help explain how children acquire language.
<snip>
He bought Chaser as a puppy in 2004 from a local breeder and
started to train her for four to five hours a day.
He would show her an object, say its name up to 40 times,
then hide it and ask her to find it, while repeating the name all the time.
She was taught one or two new names a day, with monthly revisions and reinforcement for any names she had forgotten.

Children pick up about 10 new words a day until, by the time they leave high school,
they know around 60,000 words.
Chaser learned words more slowly but faced a harder task:
Each sound was new and she had nothing to relate it to, whereas children
learn words in a context that makes them easier to remember.
For example, knives, forks and spoons are found together.

A Nova episode on animal intelligence, in which Chaser stars, will be broadcast on Feb. 9.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Border Collies are unbelievable, I swear some are mind readers.

[Shawnee123]

Mildly amusing: nothing.

I'm looking for amusing. Anyone got any amusing on them?

[footfootfoot]

Sorry, I just ate the last one. I got some ABC amusing, want that?