[simpits-tech] quadrant update...

[Roy Coates]

On Fri, 28 May 2010, Sean Galbraith wrote:

> I worked with a codie (is that a Kiwi-ism or are software guys known as
> codies, softies, cone-heads, the world over?)

Just "Coders" over here. But given that NZ spawned the BOFH, codie works
for me :)


> who used to start hitting
> the keyboard and or mouse buttons harder and *harder* and HARDER when
> something wasn't working... was really humorous...especially the look I
> used to get when I'd make helpful suggestions ;-)

We had a pretty tightly wound postgrad working here. When he went to
answer the call of nature, we hit Shift-Printscreen, then minimised all
his open windows and set his desktop image to be the screen capture we
just took.

When he came back, no amount of clicking would do anything - obviously!
He completely flipped out and trashed his keyboard and monitor. Our
rolling around laughing probably didn't help :-)


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Roy Coates.

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