I moderate a Mac forum! How much geekier do you want!?
How about:
BS Mathematics
BS Physics
MS CompSci
^------ geek trilogy
Working on PhD CompSci no less.
How about the 16 longboxes of comics I laughingly call 'my little stash'?
The Aliens and Transformers toys on my office bookshelf?
Dear god woman! What more proof do you need?
Well, I actually forgot you were a moderator. (Hmmm) How I managed to do that, I have no idea.
And I used to save all my comics too. Had closets full. ('Course I was a kid. ) Then my mom threw them all away when we moved. OMG!
Geeks don't normally have long hair, do they? I'm afraid I don't actually know any geeks. My ex was an electrical engineer. But no WAY was he a geek. More like a Greek god. However, now that I think of it, he had a friend who would have to be considered a classic geek - but one with absolutely NO redeeming qualities whatsoever. Shiver.
Eg: he would sit on the first row at college basketball games, and when the pom girls jumped in the air, he would take pictures. I leave it to your imagination to determine what 'kind' of pictures. Then he would blow the pictures up into posters and sell them to guys at the dorms. I thought that was truly sick and disgusting. I hated him for that. He made my flesh crawl.
No one on this board could possibly be like that guy. Eeeech!
Wow. Lotsa degrees. Do you plan to teach at university level or go into the 'real' world? None of my business, I know, but anyway.....just wondering. Companies will be beating a path to your door eventually, I would imagine. Yes? Think of the wine rack you'll be able to have then. hehe.
Well, I actually forgot you were a moderator. (Hmmm) How I managed to do that, I have no idea.
Because no one posts in MacOS X anymore?
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And I used to save all my comics too. Had closets full. ('Course I was a kid. ) Then my mom threw them all away when we moved. OMG!
Geeks don't normally have long hair, do they? I'm afraid I don't actually know any geeks.
(looks left)
(looks right)
Um, I think you're surrounded by them.
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My ex was an electrical engineer. But no WAY was he a geek. More like a Greek god. However, now that I think of it, he had a friend who would have to be considered a classic geek - but one with absolutely NO redeeming qualities whatsoever. Shiver.
Eg: he would sit on the first row at college basketball games, and when the pom girls jumped in the air, he would take pictures. I leave it to your imagination to determine what 'kind' of pictures. Then he would blow the pictures up into posters and sell them to guys at the dorms. I thought that was truly sick and disgusting. I hated him for that. He made my flesh crawl.
Naw, that's a nerd. Geeks have social skills.
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No one on this board could possibly be like that guy. Eeeech!
Sez you.
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Wow. Lotsa degrees. Do you plan to teach at university level or go into the 'real' world? None of my business, I know, but anyway.....just wondering. Companies will be beating a path to your door eventually, I would imagine. Yes? Think of the wine rack you'll be able to have then. hehe.
Whoohoo! No idea post-graduation, probably university. I love teaching, and seem to have a knack for it.
Pranks? Well... I never was one for devising or pulling them off, but my sister had a pretty good one once. For her senior prank, she decided that her weapon of choice would be Wonder Bread. She found out that it sticks if you squish it onto a window. During the night, she and her friends went around their school and Wonder Breaded all the windows.
Another prank that I have seen is putting dish soap in fountains. We have a fountain on campus that people do this to anually. The suds are incredible! They completely overflow from the fountain and cascade into the nearby parking lots.
Ah devious behavior
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Originally posted by ast3r3x
... windows messaging system so you could, by going into the MSDOS prompt, send messages to a single or all the computers at once ...
Great pranks everyone! This is a rather off topic question, but is there anything like this MSDOS messaging system on Macs? I've been dying to do something like that to my friends.
i must have been about twelve or so.....my neighbor and i were playing on this hill in front of our house, it had cliffs and rocks, ect. we had a tube of vampire blood and we decided to give my mom a scare. i took the tube and poured it onto my forehead so it looked like blood was coming from above my hairline. i came running down the hill when i saw my mom come outside. she looked at me and freaked! she went into a panic and ran inside to call 911. i realized how serious she was so i tried to make her realize it was a joke, but my calls seemed to make her panic more. as she was fumbling with the phone - pleading to god - not even being able to hold it, i had to shout out 'i'm joking' several times before she finally came out of her hysteria. was she mad when she realized she had been tricked!
i had to make evasive manuvers in order to keep from being hit.
Wait till your phone rings, pick it up, before the person at the other end says anything, go "Sorry, wrong number".
I've gotten the "expected" result more than once: the other person's reflexes kick in, he forgets that he was the one who dialed the number, says "oh, alright" and disconnects. It doesn't work on friends, because they recognize your voice too well.
Then, there was this time I picked an unknown person's phone number from the phonebook (he had a very common name, equivalent to Joe Smith), called him up and posing as an official, convinced him that the state was going to change his name overnight since there was a new EU directive that too many people cannot have the same name. His name was going to change everywhere automatically, tax records, post office, etc.
The guy was totally furious because he didn't feel like the state has a right to do this. And he didn't like the new name that was "automatically generated" by the state computer to replace his old one...
So we discussed this for about half an hour. A couple times I "switched the call to my supervisor" (produced a beeping sound on the line and gave the phone to a friend).
In the very end, the guy was still thinking this was for real, even though we tried hard to make the whole story even more fantastic by adding stupid details. In the end, my friend told the guy "This must be a joke! We've dealt with hundreds of these name changes on this week already, and haven't gotten a single complaint." From there, the exchange went like this:
"No, this isn't a joke". (the mark)
"It has to be a joke." (my friend)
"No goddamnit, this isn't a joke."
"Course it is."
"Listen to me, this is no **** joke!"
"Yes it is, this is a prank call." (at this point, we slam the phone down and laugh our asses off)
This was when I was about 16, the guy at the other end sounded about 30yr old. I still don't know how he fell for it.
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Originally posted by Kickaha
Bored geeks are the most dangerous species on the planet.
No WAY could you possibly be a geek!
How about:
BS Mathematics
BS Physics
MS CompSci
^------ geek trilogy
Working on PhD CompSci no less.
How about the 16 longboxes of comics I laughingly call 'my little stash'?
The Aliens and Transformers toys on my office bookshelf?
Dear god woman! What more proof do you need?
tell application "System Events"
set ap to 109
set desk to 103
set win to 101
repeat with a in ¬
{ap, desk, win, win, desk, ap, desk, ap, ap, ¬
ap, desk, win, ap, desk, desk, win, ap, desk, desk}
key code a
end repeat
end tell
Now, how can we get this onto thegelding's computer?
*sigh*
Cool. I like.
Originally posted by Kickaha
I moderate a Mac forum! How much geekier do you want!?
How about:
BS Mathematics
BS Physics
MS CompSci
^------ geek trilogy
Working on PhD CompSci no less.
How about the 16 longboxes of comics I laughingly call 'my little stash'?
The Aliens and Transformers toys on my office bookshelf?
Dear god woman! What more proof do you need?
Well, I actually forgot you were a moderator. (Hmmm) How I managed to do that, I have no idea.
And I used to save all my comics too. Had closets full. ('Course I was a kid.
Geeks don't normally have long hair, do they? I'm afraid I don't actually know any geeks. My ex was an electrical engineer. But no WAY was he a geek. More like a Greek god. However, now that I think of it, he had a friend who would have to be considered a classic geek - but one with absolutely NO redeeming qualities whatsoever. Shiver.
Eg: he would sit on the first row at college basketball games, and when the pom girls jumped in the air, he would take pictures. I leave it to your imagination to determine what 'kind' of pictures. Then he would blow the pictures up into posters and sell them to guys at the dorms. I thought that was truly sick and disgusting. I hated him for that. He made my flesh crawl.
No one on this board could possibly be like that guy. Eeeech!
Wow. Lotsa degrees. Do you plan to teach at university level or go into the 'real' world? None of my business, I know, but anyway.....just wondering. Companies will be beating a path to your door eventually, I would imagine. Yes? Think of the wine rack you'll be able to have then. hehe.
Originally posted by Carol A
Well, I actually forgot you were a moderator. (Hmmm) How I managed to do that, I have no idea.
Because no one posts in MacOS X anymore?
And I used to save all my comics too. Had closets full. ('Course I was a kid.
Geeks don't normally have long hair, do they? I'm afraid I don't actually know any geeks.
(looks left)
(looks right)
Um, I think you're surrounded by them.
My ex was an electrical engineer. But no WAY was he a geek. More like a Greek god. However, now that I think of it, he had a friend who would have to be considered a classic geek - but one with absolutely NO redeeming qualities whatsoever. Shiver.
Eg: he would sit on the first row at college basketball games, and when the pom girls jumped in the air, he would take pictures. I leave it to your imagination to determine what 'kind' of pictures. Then he would blow the pictures up into posters and sell them to guys at the dorms. I thought that was truly sick and disgusting. I hated him for that. He made my flesh crawl.
Naw, that's a nerd. Geeks have social skills.
No one on this board could possibly be like that guy. Eeeech!
Sez you.
Wow. Lotsa degrees. Do you plan to teach at university level or go into the 'real' world? None of my business, I know, but anyway.....just wondering. Companies will be beating a path to your door eventually, I would imagine. Yes? Think of the wine rack you'll be able to have then. hehe.
Whoohoo!
ObGetARoom: Oh, nevermind.
Another prank that I have seen is putting dish soap in fountains. We have a fountain on campus that people do this to anually. The suds are incredible! They completely overflow from the fountain and cascade into the nearby parking lots.
Ah devious behavior
Originally posted by ast3r3x
... windows messaging system so you could, by going into the MSDOS prompt, send messages to a single or all the computers at once ...
Great pranks everyone! This is a rather off topic question, but is there anything like this MSDOS messaging system on Macs? I've been dying to do something like that to my friends.
i had to make evasive manuvers in order to keep from being hit.
Originally posted by bauman
Speaking of bored geeks and computer pranks... this little applescript looks like a gem. It was just posted at MacOSXHints.
Code:
tell application "System Events"
set ap to 109
set desk to 103
set win to 101
repeat with a in ¬
{ap, desk, win, win, desk, ap, desk, ap, ap, ¬
ap, desk, win, ap, desk, desk, win, ap, desk, desk}
key code a
end repeat
end tell
Now, how can we get this onto thegelding's computer?
im sorry, but what does this do?
Originally posted by ThunderPoit
im sorry, but what does this do?
Exposé.
Many times.
Did anybody have the nerve to ask Ganondorf if his friend lived?
Wait till your phone rings, pick it up, before the person at the other end says anything, go "Sorry, wrong number".
I've gotten the "expected" result more than once: the other person's reflexes kick in, he forgets that he was the one who dialed the number, says "oh, alright" and disconnects. It doesn't work on friends, because they recognize your voice too well.
Then, there was this time I picked an unknown person's phone number from the phonebook (he had a very common name, equivalent to Joe Smith), called him up and posing as an official, convinced him that the state was going to change his name overnight since there was a new EU directive that too many people cannot have the same name. His name was going to change everywhere automatically, tax records, post office, etc.
The guy was totally furious because he didn't feel like the state has a right to do this. And he didn't like the new name that was "automatically generated" by the state computer to replace his old one...
So we discussed this for about half an hour. A couple times I "switched the call to my supervisor" (produced a beeping sound on the line and gave the phone to a friend).
In the very end, the guy was still thinking this was for real, even though we tried hard to make the whole story even more fantastic by adding stupid details. In the end, my friend told the guy "This must be a joke! We've dealt with hundreds of these name changes on this week already, and haven't gotten a single complaint." From there, the exchange went like this:
"No, this isn't a joke". (the mark)
"It has to be a joke." (my friend)
"No goddamnit, this isn't a joke."
"Course it is."
"Listen to me, this is no **** joke!"
"Yes it is, this is a prank call." (at this point, we slam the phone down and laugh our asses off)
This was when I was about 16, the guy at the other end sounded about 30yr old. I still don't know how he fell for it.