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Het zwerft al even rond op internet, en dan voornamelijk op Twitter, en het is heel erg. En leuk ook…

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Jon Stewart kennen we natuurlijk van “The daily show“, en we weten ook dat hij een duidelijke mening heeft over TV-station Fox, of in ieder geval over Fox-presentator Bill O’Reilly.
Over Bill O’Reilly had ik overigens al eens eerder geschreven.

Eergisteren kwam Jon Stewart op verzoek van Bill O’Reilly langs… Check dit… Koddig:

Ik moet zeggen dat ik eigenlijk wel iets meer had verwacht van Jon Stewart. Ik had de hoop dat hij echt voluit zou gaan tegen O’Reilly. Helaas doet hij dat niet.

Op de een of andere manier heb ik de indruk dat tegenwoordig steeds meer mensen best wel redelijk met een computer overweg kunnen.
Het laatste deel van de vorige eeuw was dat wel anders, met onderstaande old school helpdeskverhalen als resultaat…

HellDesk: Hello. How can I help you today?
End User: There’s smoke coming from the power supply on my computer.
HellDesk: Looks like you need a new power supply.
End User: No, I don’t! I just need to change the startup files.
HellDesk: Sir, what you described is a faulty power supply. You need to replace it.
End User: No way! Someone told me that I just had to change the system startup files to fix the problem! All I need is for you to tell me the right command.
(For the next ten minutes, in spite of the technician’s efforts to explain the problem and its solution, the customer adamantly insisted that he was right. So, in frustration, the technician responded)
HellDesk: I’m sorry. We don’t normally tell our customers this, but there’s an undocumented DOS command that will fix the problem.
End User: I knew it!
HellDesk: Just add the line “LOAD NOSMOKE.COM” at the end of the CONFIG.SYS file and everything should work fine. Let me know how it goes.
(About ten minutes later, the technician received a call back from the customer.)
End User: It didn’t work. The power supply is still smoking.
HellDesk: Well, what version of DOS are you using?
End User: MS-DOS 6.22.
HellDesk: Well, that’s your problem. That version of DOS doesn’t include NOSMOKE. You’ll need to contact Microsoft and ask them for a patch. Let me know how it all works out.
(When nearly an hour had passed, the phone rang again.)
End User: I need a new power supply.
HellDesk: How did you come to that conclusion?
End User: Well, I called Microsoft and told the technician what you said, and he started asking me questions about the make of the power supply.
HellDesk: What did he tell you?
End User: He said my power supply isn’t compatible with NOSMOKE.

Tech Support: Ok Bob, let’s press the control and escape keys at the same time. That brings up a task list in the middle of the screen. Now type the letter ‘P’ to bring up the Program Manager.
Customer: I don’t have a ‘P’.
TS: On your keyboard, Bob.
C: What do you mean?
TS: ‘P’ on your keyboard, Bob.
C: I’m not going to do that!

Tech Support: “I need you to right-click on the Open Desktop.”
Customer: “OK.”
Tech Support: “Did you get a pop-up menu?”
Customer: “No.”
Tech Support: “OK. Right click again. Do you see a pop-up menu?”
Customer: “No.”
Tech Support: “OK, sir. Can you tell me what you have done up until this point?”
Customer: “Sure, you told me to write ‘click’ and I wrote ‘click’.” (At this point I had to put the caller on hold to tell the rest of the tech support staff what had happened. I couldn’t, however, stop from giggling when I got back to the call.)
Tech Support: “OK, did you type ‘click’ with the keyboard?”
Customer: “I have done something dumb, right?”

Customer: “I’m having a problem installing your software. I’ve got a fairly old computer, and when I type ‘INSTALL’, all it says is ‘Bad command or file name’.”
Tech Support: “Ok, check the directory of the A: drive-go to A:/ and type ‘dir’.”
Customer: reads off a list of file names, including ‘INSTALL.EXE’.
Tech Support: “All right, the correct file is there. Type ‘INSTALL’ again.”
Customer: “Ok.” (pause) “Still says ‘Bad command or file name’.”
Tech Support: “Hmmm. The file’s there in the correct place – it can’t help but do something. Are you sure you’re typing I-N-S-T-A-L-L and hitting the Enter key?”
Customer: “Yes, let me try it again.” (pause) “Nope, still ‘Bad command or file name’.”
Tech Support: (now really confused) “Are you sure you’re typing I-N-S-T-A-L-L and hitting the key that says ‘Enter’?”
Customer: “Well, yeah. Although my ‘N’ key is stuck, so I’m using the ‘M’ key…does that matter?

Customer: “I got this problem. You people sent me this install disk, and now my A: drive won’t work.”
Tech Support: “Your A drive won’t work?”
Customer: “That’s what I said. You sent me a bad disk, it got stuck in my drive, now it won’t work at all.”
Tech Support: “Did it not install properly? What kind of error messages did you get?”
Customer: “I didn’t get any error message. The disk got stuck in the drive and wouldn’t come out. So I got these pliers and tried to get it out. That didn’t work either.”
Tech Support: “You did what sir?”
Customer: “I got these pliers, and tried to get the disk out, but it wouldn’t budge. I just ended up cracking the plastic stuff a bit.”
Tech Support: “I don’t understand sir, did you push the eject button?”
Customer: “No, so then I got a stick of butter and melted it and used a turkey baster and put the butter in the drive, around the disk, and that got it loose. Then I used the pliers and it came out fine. I can’t believe you would send me a disk that was broken and defective.”
Tech Support: “Let me get this clear. You put melted butter in your A: drive and used pliers to pull the disk out?” At this point, I put the call on the speaker phone and motioned at the other techs to listen in.
Tech Support: “Just so I am absolutely clear on this, can you repeat what you just said?”
Customer: “I said I put butter in my A: drive to get your crappy disk out, then I had to use pliers to pull it out.”
Tech Support: “Did you push that little button that was sticking out when the disk was in the drive, you know, the thing called the disk eject button?”

Silence.

Tech Support: “Sir?”
Customer: “Yes.”
Tech Support: “Sir, did you push the eject button?”
Customer: “No, but you people are going to fix my computer, or I am going to sue you for breaking my computer!”
Tech Support: “Let me get this straight. You are going to sue our company because you put the disk in the A: drive, didn’t follow the instructions we sent you, didn’t actually seek professional advice, didn’t consult your user’s manual on how to use your computer properly, instead proceeding to pour butter into the drive and physically rip the disk out?”
Customer: “Ummmm.”
Tech Support: “Do you really think you stand a chance, since we do record every call and have it on tape?”
Customer: (now rather humbled) “But you’re supposed to help!”
Tech Support: “I am sorry sir, but there is nothing we can do for you. Have a nice day.”

:D

Meer is hier te vinden: http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/

Terug naar je maker! [Deel 1] staat hier.

Ook het Reformatorisch Dagblad heeft een stukje geschreven…

Volgens hem [de heer van Helden, initiatiefnemer van de creationismefolder] kunnen mensen die het niet met de folder eens zijn deze gewoon weggooien. „Een folder van de supermarkt stuur je toch ook niet terug naar de supermarkt? En waarom mogen allerlei pornoblaadjes en partijpolitieke folders wel verspreid?”

Neen. Een folder van de supermarkt stuur je inderdaad niet terug naar de supermarkt.
Dat wil zeggen… Op het moment dat ze gaan verkondigen dat de Albert Heijn in zes dagen is ontstaan/gecreëerd, we allemaal het boodschappenmandje moeten gaan aanbidden en ze het zogenaamde beurtbalkje heilig verklaren, zal ik zonder enige aarzeling de supermarktfolder terugsturen ;)

Weebl and Bob. Alles draait om “pie”.

Check die briljante filmpjes hier: http://www.weebls-stuff.com/wab/.
(Belangrijk: Geluid aan…)

…is van Jeroen Pauw, gisteravond in de uitzending van Pauw en Witteman.

Vanaf 10′48″, met de uitspraak zelf op 11′32″.
Ik zeg, gewaagd.

Saturday Night Live, en de verkiezingen in de Verenigde Staten…

Meer is hier te vinden: http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/.

The Log song, “Well i’n't that cute… But it’s wrooong!”, Ren & Stimpy’s “Space madness”, Beavis & Butthead’s “Cornholio” en Dexter’s “Omelette du fromage”…

Ren and Stimpy

Ren and Stimpy – Space Madness

Cornholio

Dexter Big Cheese

(more…)

Vanavond was Zembla op TV, met als subtitel “De trucs van Char, het medium“.

Programma’s als ‘De nieuwe Uri Geller’, ‘Het Zesde Zintuig’, ‘Char, het medium’ en ‘Astro-tv’ trekken miljoenen kijkers. Is dit onschuldig amusement of volksverlakkerij? ZEMBLA duikt in de wereld van het Amerikaanse medium Char.
 
In haar RTL 4-programma nodigt zij mensen uit die een dierbare hebben verloren met wie Char in contact kan komen. ZEMBLA laat zien dat de readings van Char en andere mediums gebaseerd zijn op tactieken die nagenoeg iedereen kan aanleren.

Zodra er een uitzendinggemist.nl-linkje beschikbaar is zal ik ‘m aan dit bericht toevoegen.
De uitzending is HIER terug te zien.

Het geheel deed mij in ieder geval denken aan de (geniale ;) ) South Park-aflevering The Biggest Douche in the Universe. In die aflevering heeft Stan het plan opgevat televisie-medium John Edward te ontmaskeren als The Biggest Douche in the Universe, oftewel “De grootste loser in het universum”.

De aflevering zelf…

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