I've had to do a bit of, not tech help, but walking people through user names and passwords or giving out website addresses.
The hardest thing to explain is what I mean by forward slash.
People keep trying to type out forward slash.
Whoa! I... I think I'm having a thought. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a thought. Now I'm having a plan. Now I'm having a wiggins.
Xander ,'First Date'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
askye - Apr 23, 2009 4:23:02 pm PDT #7691 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
meara - Apr 23, 2009 4:27:51 pm PDT #7692 of 30000
I'm shy because I don't have much in the way of body bits to show off. (Corset-speaking, that is...)
Oh, tcha--I have an A-cup, that just means I wear an underbust, rather than an overbust, it's more flattering!
dcp - Apr 23, 2009 4:37:02 pm PDT #7693 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
The hardest thing to explain is what I mean by forward slash.
I use: "The forward-slash is the one on the same key as the question mark. The back-slash is the other one, above the 'Enter' key."
Hil R. - Apr 23, 2009 4:44:20 pm PDT #7694 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I finished filing all my student loan forms. I think. It was confusing. Now just have to wait to find out how much of a loan I can get.
Jessica - Apr 23, 2009 4:44:42 pm PDT #7695 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The hardest thing to explain is what I mean by forward slash.
Please tell me I'm not the only one who read this and tried to figure out what fic genre "forward slash" was.
brenda m - Apr 23, 2009 4:48:03 pm PDT #7696 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I solved the family computer support issue with installing Logmein on their computers. It is so much faster and easier for me to just take over their keyboard and do it myself.
Oh god yes. Timbuktu saved my sanity one year.
I'm shy because I don't have much in the way of body bits to show off. (Corset-speaking, that is...)
Put one on and you'll find out differently.
Connie Neil - Apr 23, 2009 4:49:48 pm PDT #7697 of 30000
brillig
Oh, goddess, I just spent two hours with this guy setting up his network, and when we got to the second computer it turns out that he was blithely following my directions but installing to an utterly different directory.
Anne W. - Apr 23, 2009 4:59:26 pm PDT #7698 of 30000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Please tell me I'm not the only one who read this and tried to figure out what fic genre "forward slash" was.
You're not.
Vortex - Apr 23, 2009 5:17:07 pm PDT #7699 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I'm shy because I don't have much in the way of body bits to show off. (Corset-speaking, that is...)
ah, but that's the beauty of corsets. They create a lot out of a little. (or in my case OH MY GOD out of a lot) I may re run my corset again. You know, the one that prompted ND to kiss each lady pillow good night.
askye - Apr 23, 2009 5:21:04 pm PDT #7700 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
dcp, I usually say something like "the forward slash is the key by Enter"
but people are usually trying to type out as I'm talking so, I'll say, "let me say the address first, and then I'll spell it out for you."
I give out this website address so often that when I was placing an order over the phone last month and I had to give my address I started out okay with my actual address but it then turned into "website.com/...".
And then there was the time I was trying to help a girl and I couldn't understand why she kept saying the website wasn't coming up. She kept saying "it doesn't say it and it just gives me other options but it's not it."
I finally realized she was typing the whole thing in Search for Yahoo and not as the address. I tried to explain what the address bar is and how it functions but she kept telling me her browser didn't have that. And then I walked her through searching for our website and then had to get her to click the right things.
The IT office is located near my desk and one of the IT guys was laughing at me while I was doing this and told me "welcome to my world."