2009
POP? or is that PPP?
ppp (which of course means poor poor Pam). She is worn out from getting the site up and running. To add insult to injury something in her computer popped.
Apparently it wasn’t a good pop. She has coaxed and nursed that tower through the months. For Pam to be cut off from her cyberworld is akin to a political journalists camera losing it’s feed on election night, a dentist losing his drill, a policeman too busy to visit the donut shop…. (Sorry – that last remark is a family joke, has to do with rollerblading beyond one’s means). For Pam to lose her computer it’s like her best friend has stopped speaking to her.
Pam had been trying to get in touch with her technician, a very busy gentleman who wasn’t answering her calls or emails. Pam and I are not shrinking violets, nor are we the type to let a little thing like a broken computer and no transportation stop us.
Ever the trooper, Pam borrowed a snow scoop, a very large snow shovel for those in the no-snow zone. We were just coming out a cold snap – no school for three days because exposed skin would freeze in less than five minutes. People were advised to stay indoors.
I had no problem with that. I love to hibernate. However, Pam needed her computer and where there’s a will there’s a way. She wrapped the tower in a garbage bag and blanket, lugged it to the snow scoop and headed to the technician’s. Did I mention there was blizzard that day?
Gameless and alone, our courageous site administrator braved the frozen air and forty centimetres of snow to restore her computer to it’s former glory.
Intrepid works for me. Ingenious will do. Inventive sounds about right.
It wasn’t quite as bad as you make it sound. And hey, if it had been your computer that went into “NTLDR: missing or corrupted _” and you were trying to find the boot screen, let alone find it and try to boot from disk, you’d have hollered for a tech faster than Spidey (that’s Spiderman to you) fires a web.
Was it only 40 centimetres of snow? Wow. Felt like more.
I knew we had a weather warning, but the window of opportunity was there so I just took it.
Ahem. Teh google is your friend there Jan.
POP means Post Office Protocol (email retrieval) or Point of Preference (access point to internet).
PPP means Point to Point Protocol (a method a computer connects to the internet)
Oh wait. I don’t have a computer at the moment, because I took it to the tech, who fortunately for me only lives a couple of blocks away. If I’d had a sled or a toboggan I’d have used one. Necessity being the mother of and all that…
Did you know a snow scoop is called a sleigh shovel and it was invented in Ontario?
It was the perfect solution to get that tower trundled off to the tech, it floated right over those 40 centimetres.
That pop sound the computer made on an update reboot was more of an Oh Snap.
Or an Oh Shit.
OS? Get it? Never mind.
Poor poor Pam, or poor old Pam works for me, I do miss that trusty machine and since I have your sympathy while it’s in the shop, how a stroll over to Tim Hortons? You’re buying. I’ll leave the snow scoop at home.
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