Annie Rhiannon

Friday, May 18, 2007

My casual clothes and patronising demeanor

Staying with my mother means I've become tech-support guy overnight. She got her own computer recently, to feed this terrible addiction to blonking that hounds our family, and now I finally understand how Bjarni's patience is tested in order to live peacefully with me; "Have you tried restarting? Yes? Oh, here you go, I'll just plug your mouse back in...".

But I'm not really much help when it comes to her PC, because, as you can probably tell by my casual clothes and horribly patronising demeanor, I'm a Mac. And not only am I a Mac, but I'm a graphic designer Mac, which means that while I can make horribly patronising adverts in a flash, and, indeed, in Flash, I'm not much good when it comes to simpler software, like Microsoft Word for example.

"How do you delete pages in Word?!" I wailed at my PC friend over the phone, out of earshot of my mum so I wouldn't ruin any of the illusions she might have about me.

"You just delete what's on the page and the page disappears," sighed PC, wearily.

Still, I was able to feel smug and patronising again later on when a warning on my mum's screen told her she may need to re-install some damaged software.

"What was the last thing you installed, anyway?" I asked.

"Mozzarella," she replied, with absolute certainty.

14 comments:

  1. Sid Trotter18.5.07

    Mozarella in the computer. Excellent. That'll be good for the mouse anyway

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  2. I too wish to install Mozarella on my computer! Your mother is ahead of her time.

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  3. I am typing this comment in my cheesy window.

    I hope your mum's computer smells sweeter than the post I have put up today!!

    Well done to Mum! Young folk do not realise that we grew up in a world where we were told "Don't touch, you'll break it"!

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  4. Brilliant.

    Your mum sounds great.

    I have to do tech support over the phone to my father:

    "The scanner's broken"
    "Really? Um...is the light on the front?"
    "No. I told you it's broken"
    "is it plugged in?"
    "Of course it is. I'm not stupid you know"
    "is it turned on at the wall?"
    "ah"
    hangs up.

    How people do that for a living I have no idea.

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  5. Bock the Robber18.5.07

    I installed Mozzarella on my own pc. It's great with spam.

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  6. *giggle*

    I use tippex to get rid of my word docs.

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  7. i wish i had a cheese pun to contribute. but i don't, so i'm just going to call Mozilla 'mozarella' from now on.

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  8. Mozzarella on the chips. Now that's why my PC's been so sluggish of late. Thanks mammy-Annie!

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  9. Lollerskates to you all.

    In fairness I suppose my mum is quite advanced in mum-terms. Despite her shreiking that her computer has gone off every time the screen goes to sleep.

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  10. Hello, and thanks. I think.

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  11. Mac at home, PC at work. Like PC less and less by the day.

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  12. Ah, the Mac v PC rivalry lives on... the oik keeps referring to wifi as 'the computer radio thing' which completely confused the ISP support guy. There's something about the older generation and 'puters - possibly because of their upbringing, as Grannymar said.

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  13. I recommend a balsamic dressing for yer Ma's keyboard.

    I was a Mac too, long time ago. I have even kept my 'Classic' in mothballs so I can sell it on Ebay to collectors in 2020. Nostalgia if not hindsight might add to its value.

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  14. I hear about lots of people who go from PC to Mac but hardly any who go the other way round.

    James, you're welcome, I'm glad I could be of halp.

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