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This was the last time I could lord my superiority with computers over my classmates, sigh. I still salvaged these two incidents:

We were given floppy disks to save our excel spreadsheets. Someone asked what they were. I responded “1.44 megabyte thumb drives”. Stunned, the person then asked when floppy drives [...]

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The coffee makers at work were changed and at first I noticed no functional changes, until I saw the new options.

Yep, you can get wellbeing from this coffee maker.  That’s awesome.

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I was driving home when I saw what I thought was a funny sign in a bus.

The sign says “Bus has been checked for sleeping children as is empty”, I giggled to myself until a kid pointed at me in surprise, turned around, yelled and the back of the bus was rushed with kids with [...]

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For the last year or so I’ve joked that I’m a Level 2 actuary and can cast magic missile.  A joke about which I don’t think anyone has yet laughed.  What once started as a joke now may become reality with NASA starting an MMO.  Besides being quite possibly the dumbest premise for an MMO [...]

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Coworker:  My son’s looking for a good sci-fi book, nothing too tricky, he’s 13.
Me: Hm…. Ender’s Game would probably be a good start, or if he likes it a little darker, Neuromancer.  What’s he reading now?
Coworker: Some fantasy crap, chipmunks with swords and shit like that.

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Voting was well, dull.  Most of the slots were “Pick 8 people to be associate vizier to the regional viceroy” or whatever term the Republican Party uses as go-fors between its legates and guls and the Vorta (providing further proof that Mitt Romney is not only an ideological changling but also a Founder, how else [...]

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From CIS 1055, Last Test:
Me: I think the test was the same as last year’s.
Instructor:  The department makes a new exam each semester, this semester you guys had to do stuff for a bowling team.
Me: The cross over was a bit rough.  If it was bowling, then why did we have to calculate the batting [...]

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If you don’t look at the comments section, you may have missed this:
Um, hi. This is Drew VandenDries, ex-owner of the ipod you purchased off of ebay. I am not in any way interested in getting the ipod back or anything, but I would like to know the person that you purchased it from off [...]

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In CIS 1055 we’ve been listening to presentations about modern topics in computing and these are the choice bits for your consumption:

Students often collaborate with pages called wikipedias.
The internet is a democratic democracy
In web 1.0, you could only get information from 1 source, making web 2.0 unbiased
Advertising in Web 1.0 was done with a DoubleClick
Web [...]

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Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed was both better and worse than I anticipated and I took copious notes and jottings during the film filling 6 index cards, compared to my normal 1 for a given film.

Great music.  Few docudramas, infotainment pieces, etc have such a well done score.  I was thrown off by the Orchestral version [...]

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