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"I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started." - Donald Rumsfeld

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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Say the time

... that's what my boss wanted his computer to do. Every hour, so he could get up and stretch, because he has back problems.

I do everything too hard, I think. Within 10 minutes I had an alarm system downloaded & installed on his computer that would go off whenever you set it to go off - but only two choices of alarm sounds , "flat line" and "space launch". Having listened to "flat line" - yeah, it's what you might think it is - a cardiac monitor sound - I knew that wouldn't work so I set it to "space launch" , left, and promptly forgot all about it.

At 12:00 there was a horrendous noise out of the boss's office - he had left his volume set on "high", too - and it was a full blown NASA space launch, complete with countdown, rockets, liftoff, etc etc, going on and ON. I went RUNNING in there - luckily he thought it was funny. I have never seen him laugh that hard before, and that is a good thing. For me.

I found him a dang program that just speaks the time, now. But it is a temporary trial so I have to go hunting again....

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

That made me laugh :)

12:51 PM, March 27, 2009  

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