Anyway. Whilst I pack and pack, I wonder if my readers (regular and otherwise) could help me with two conundra*, both of which have been pressing on my tiny monkey brain in the last days.
Question 1: About My Mac, And Of A Technical Nature (Sort of)
(NB: Regular readers will be aware that I am not in the habit of asking this sort of question as I am not a dick. On the other hand, regular readers (each of them blessed with basic intellectual skills and interesting looks), seem to like to be asked things, so maybe it is not such a bad idea after all.)
Where the cock have all my photos on iPhoto gone? The little shape is there. The name of the file is there. But where is the tiny image? Where is the file when I press upon it with my mouse-buttons?
It is all backed up to iDisk, but where the cock are they on iDisk? I am in great distress.
Also, my stupid computer (12" Titanium PowerBook) is broken, which is really bad. There is a DVD stuck in it and no-one can get it out, not even with tweezers or sticks. The situation has not been helped IT Man unscrewing it, saying "it's, like, warped?", putting it back together and finding two screws left over, before telling me how he and his friends in Ohio like to spend the morning directing AK47s at scrap cars.
(A recommendation for a really good person who can make my Mac well again and who is in South London would be splendid. Do not say "Go to the Mac store" or "Buy a new computer". The first is stupid; as to the second, I am have no salary until I find a job in Canada. Also do not write a comment about "PC is best" blah blah yawn wibble PC World PC Week I like creases in my trousers. I use Macs, and Mac things. I am sure there are different and better ways of doing it and I am sure they are very good, but none of them interest me as they are all used by accountants who have weekend photography hobbies.)
Question 2: What Is This About?
It is a Dutch joke, but not even the Dutch people I know (and I know at least three, despite living in Amsterdam) can explain it.
Thanking you in advance for your kind attentions,
NWM
* Correct, despite the OED's insistence on "condundrums"
16 comments:
Question no. 2: forget the 'yonaise'. take it away and you're left with Ma (who has a skirt) and Pa (who has a whacking great 'tache). If that's how the Dutch get their laughs, I can see why you're leaving Amsterdam.
Thank you for clearing that up. Are you good at crosswords? I am not, not even the quick ones. I can't believe none of us got it.
As to the joke itself: yes. Suddenly it doesn't seem like such a bad idea.
But why should the plural of conundrum not be conundrums? It is not a Latin word, although of Latin derivation.
When a CD got stuck in my Mac, I just tried many, many times and it finally ejected itself. I was heartily relieved as it was music that would have been sniggered at in the repair shop. I'm afraid IT Man might have done more harm than good though.
I suppose you've done the obvious 'spotlight' searches for your photos. I hope you find them soon.
HA!!!
The 'yonaise' joke is quite awful, actually, but I wouldn't have understood it, ever. Thank goodness for misterig.
I won't attempt to answer your MAC questions, since I am an accountant with a weekend photography habit (but at least I haven't lost my photos).
Monkey,
Katy Newton alerted me to your post. I'm in Brixton and am generally fairly good with Macs (been using 'em for a decade and even changed hard drives out of eMacs). Drop me an email at dk@devilskitchen.net.
DK
I recently retrieved a lost disc in my laptop by using a lollypop stick and some double-sided sticky-tape.
This is true and no lasting harm was done to either.
Mr Kitchen fixed all my computer stuff.
Wow! Katy Newton is a genius. DK sounds just the ticket (as they say). I used to know a Mac genius in Hackney but that would not be the same.
I am ashamed to say I got the joke straight away. not only that but it made me laugh. I can never live in Amsterdam.
ma and pa were quite obvious, mabe that was the problem?
enidd has had more cds stuck in her mac than she cares to remember, so she keeps these instructions on hand. she hopes they might help you.
First try holding the mouse button down during boot. if that doesn't work, try this:
Hold Control-Command-Option-Eject Button; this will shut down your computer. Turn the power on with the power button and hold Command-Option-O-F -- this will boot you into open firmware. Now type eject cd and wait until the CD pops out. Type mac-boot and you are ready to rock!
I can't believe none of you got that joke either! It is imbecilically obvious...
P.S. I know nothing about Macs. I use PCs and my trousers have at least 20 creases each in.
But I can do you a spreadsheet showing you how poor you are if you like...
I was looking for a deeper level of humour in the mayo joke. Damn.
I'm cr*p at 'puters but good at jokes.
I arrived here by linkage and serendipity, but I thought I would offer the view of an older and wiser woman. It isn't Ma and Pa, but that she May if he is prepared to Pay.
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