Monday Morning Crabbiness
I lost my entire day Saturday due to participating in a wedding (not complaining about that, Jen... :-) Just saying that if I'd been thinking smarter, I would have taken today off to compensate). Then managed to reset the alarm for today as though we were going off daylight savings again (you know, the old, "Fall back" routine), meaning it went off an hour later than expected. Get to work (still early, but an hour late for us), to read an entirely inappropriate email from a student [Excerpt: "Now, all i want was for you to simply change my math discussion section from Thursday 2:30pm to 3:20 pm to Thursday 9:05am to 9:55 am All this time that is all i was asking for. Not so hard."] who hasn't figured out through repeated emails that this particular type of switch CANNOT be made. So actually, yes, it is quite hard. Grr.
So all of this is to highlight some crabbiness about the morning comics:
While I appreciate the sentiment behind this strip on so many levels (knitting at work, flight delays, the need for more comfort in airports, etc.), I want to know WHO holds knitting needles like this? You're right! No one does. Yet this is almost always the position knitting is represented in pictures. I suppose that one could argue that when knitting needles are held properly, it could be difficult to graphically represent in an understandable manner, but I don't care this morning.
Then we have the example from "Committed":
Small children, women, small women, wives, non-tech people, etc. Credibility is such a flaky thing. Not to air dirty relationship laundry, or anything, but S and I frequently have discussions about computer problems that go something like this:
Me: My computer is doing [fill in the blank].
S: That's not possible. It can't do that.
Me: Nonetheless, that's what it's doing.
S: You/someone must be doing something wrong. It can't happen that way.
Me: Come here and look. That's what it's doing.
S: I don't know what to tell you. It's not possible to do that, so you're just doing something wrong.
My computer relies on my lack of credibility to do oh so many things.
[Love you, honey. Not mad at you, just cranky at the morning. :-) ]
Comments
heh- I cannot tell you how many times I have had that exact discussion with my missus. Personally, I think that the computers KNOW they aren't supposed to throw up some error, and they just do it to cause us annoyances and difficulty. I for one, welcome out new digital overlords...:)
Posted by: no1inparticular | December 5, 2006 09:28 AM
the knitting needle thing drives me crazy! and then when you try to teach someone how to knit, they think that it has something to do with how they see it in comics or cartoons (two needles going in little circles and lots of clicking) arrrgh. and yes, i know that makes me a textile geek.
Posted by: becka | December 4, 2006 05:47 PM