View Full Version : Oh no someone stole the optical mouse ball!
PCGUY112887
10-06-05, 05:46 PM
Today in English we were in the computer lab and we were all working. The teacher is complaining and I listen in, she is talking about why anyone would want to steal a mouse ball and stuff. She keeps goin and I look down and she is fighting the mouse and is talking about mouse balls again. So I look around...
all of the computers have optical mice.
I sigh and keep working, people start asking her what is going on and she is telling people someone stole the mouse ball out of her mouse and stuff. I finally decide to go over and ask what the deal is, her mouse is flyin around the screen and she is talkin about how someone stole her mouse ball.
I tell her optical mice don't have balls, and she is like "yes they do".
I pick it up and look inside, someone used a pen or something and punched out the little sensor. I try to explain to her and she says, in a very loud wominish firm voice
"No Kyle i'm sorry, your wrong, that's just the way it is accept it"
Poor lady :shrug:
Elif Tymes
10-06-05, 05:55 PM
Did you eplain to her that she is more than likely the nicest person alive, and that she is propably also very happy?
(Minor details: Nice means ignorant, and ignorance is bliss)
PCGUY112887
10-06-05, 05:57 PM
That's the thing that got me I was being as nice as I could!
I used to work over in the elementry school and I delt with oddball things like this all of the time and when I was nice the teachers were like "OH!" and wanted to know more.
This one just hated me :-/.
millhouse
10-06-05, 06:00 PM
Well just accept it. Some people think they know everything when they really dont have a clue.
Elif Tymes
10-06-05, 06:04 PM
No, I mean. You say that the teacher is "very nice"
If she's an English teacher, she SHOULD get it.
if she doesn't get it, she isn't a good English teacher :)
SolidxSnake
10-06-05, 06:06 PM
No, I mean. You say that the teacher is "very nice"
If she's an English teacher, she SHOULD get it.
if she doesn't get it, she isn't a good English teacher :)
I like the way you think LOL
but really, just ignore her.
Malpine Walis
10-06-05, 06:38 PM
Pardon me but if mice had balls why would they need to be on the pad most of the time? [/rimshot]
9mmCensor
10-06-05, 06:56 PM
haha
shellshock
10-06-05, 07:30 PM
LOL, you know those marble mouses, with the one big ball in the middle, Our video editing computer had one on it, so when he didnt want us using it when he was away, he would lock up the ball ( I would just bring my usb lappy mouse). Well one day when he was gone, he forgot to take the ball out of the mouse. We had a subistute teacher that day. The floors in his room are linouleam or whatever. We tried to see if it bounced, and it DID! :clap: It bounced like a golf ball on concrete. So we started bouncing it around to each other, then one kid got it, and tried to do a superbounce with it. It took a huge chunk out of the side of it. We were all like "OH NOES" LOL The five of us got detention LOL :D
It was one of these:
http://www.logitech.com/lang/images/0/127.gif
I want to make a keychain out of that mouseball, my mom still uses hers though so i can't just trash it.
-1cem4n
ThePerfectCore
10-07-05, 12:27 AM
Standard issue chick mentality.
"If I repeat it enough times, it'll come true!"
threeme2189
10-07-05, 05:14 AM
rofl thats funny :p
twEEkerAreUs
10-08-05, 04:17 AM
Standard issue chick mentality.
"If I repeat it enough times, it'll come true!"
Seriously haha, now if it was a guy he would either admitted it or flat out got in his face Lmao.
TekeTorvo
10-08-05, 08:00 AM
Well just accept it. Some people think they know everything when they really dont have a clue.
That statement could possibly be the under-statement of the year.
Malpine Walis
10-08-05, 08:38 AM
Anyone who thinks that women have a lock on that type of behavior need to spend a month or so admining my employer's network. Yes, it is true that women have made some of the more comical errors but the guys have made more than their share too. Some of the stuff that guys have done include:
Not turning the computer on and then reporting that it did not work. When I got there and turned it on, I was met with "I did not know that my hard drive had to be turned on to get on the internet".
Destroying a windows installation by changing the swap file to manual and some bogus value (this was win/3.1). Then proudly saying, I heard that this computer needed more memory so I added some". Yes, he took credit for it.
Bringing a computer to it's knees with spyware by installing a particular screen saver. Four times. Three of them after i told him what was wrong. He kept doing it. I finally used the policy editor to remove the command button from his desktop properties dialog box.
"administratively deciding" stuff without checking with me first and then just using explorer to delete programs by deleting the directories. One time this bozo deleted a windows shell because he decided that it was "no longer needed". Great move. Now try getting into windows.
Those were all done by guys. So yah, tell me again how it is a "chick move" to do stuff that does not make sense. Please?
ghettocomp
10-09-05, 08:19 AM
I'm not an IT employee where I work, But I do spend at least one night a week recovering all our computers from exactly the same errors that Malpine mentioned. Most of them are caused by guys, each thinking they know something. :rolleyes:
even the IT department here has no clue, their idea of a fix is reinstalling everything.
Overclocker550
10-09-05, 09:46 AM
lol typical woman comicial move. Theres a website full of those, one good one was putting a cd rom in the 5.25 inch floppy drive. Ive seen one where he refused to lift the mouse or the pointer would get stuck
one good one was putting a cd rom in the 5.25 inch floppy drive.
We had a customer come in once w/ that problem. She had really jammed it in there but good!
We had to remove the drive, disassemble the drive and remove the CD, then put it all back together before like, 5 or 6 o'clock in the evening when her husband got home.
She fell all over herself to pay up. We had it done by like, 3 in the afternoon or something (she had brought it in at about 2:15 or thereabouts).
I have the distinct feeling her husband would've beaten her if he had found out :(
Some people just don't know the difference, that's all. There's a difference between stupidity and just plain not knowing any better.
Malpine Walis
10-10-05, 04:44 PM
lol typical woman comicial move. Theres a website full of those, one good one was putting a cd rom in the 5.25 inch floppy drive.
Yah, I had a GUY who did exactly that at work. But this time, I know that HE really did know better as HE had arelady used a computer and HE knew what went where. But as HE described the matter HE just wanted to see what would happen. Well, HE found out alright and HE lost a good CD in the process.
Super Nade
10-10-05, 05:32 PM
I have not seen anything quite as dramatic as people at Uni's are pretty savvy. The worst I have seen was this lady trying to install a Windows version of MS Office on a Mac :)
Dreamstalker
10-10-05, 08:23 PM
My IT director is fairly savvy, but one of the staff in charge of TS'ing the computers is a piece of work.
The router in the residence hall was having a fit and needed to be rebooted: "It's your computer." (after he was told that everyone else on my side of the hall was getting the same error...guess errors can be spread through the air :rolleyes: ).
I had been given the wrong name for the mailserver; when I got the right one, the server itself DFO'ed: "It's your firewall. We don't support that software and you shouldn't have one anyway, get rid of it."
Their idea of fixing something is a reboot; he was trying unsuccessfully to "fix" a dead HDD on one of the PCs in the learning center by rebooting until I suggested what might be wrong. That earned me an evil look; I was later told by the learning center director that I had been right.
Schalldampfer
10-10-05, 09:00 PM
Wow... I'm sorry for that, Kyle... some people just will not learn.
SunRedRX7
10-10-05, 09:22 PM
The most dangerous person around a computer I've found is someone that thinks they know what there doing. At least most of the "I know nothing about computer" people I've run into are to afraid to do anything that I haven't specifically told them they can do. Annoying to be asked every little thing if its ok, but far less annoying then someone that deceided they could refresh there PC by formating it.
Pardon me but if mice had balls why would they need to be on the pad most of the time? [/rimshot]
Yeah, mice don't have balls, men do.
Quailane
10-11-05, 12:55 AM
Hmm. The only I can think of is that the IT department at my school (no, not the IT department where kids go to major in IT, but the actual people that take of IT at our school.)
They are so stupid, that they don't know how to update the mainframe ( grace.rit.edu ) and have not changed any software since 1999. They are running java 1.1.4 on there. It is totally ridiculous.
even the IT department here has no clue, their idea of a fix is reinstalling everything.
That's the best solution most times ;) "You infected your system with a bazillion viruses? I'll load a fresh image off of DVD so you won't touch the network, nor will we need to sit here for 3 hours, then restore all your crap." At least, that's how I like to handle it :D
orionlion82
10-11-05, 01:28 AM
That's the best solution most times ;) "You infected your system with a bazillion viruses? I'll load a fresh image off of DVD so you won't touch the network, nor will we need to sit here for 3 hours, then restore all your crap." At least, that's how I like to handle it :D
how wonderfully zen!
and if they loose their optical mouse balls?
Get them a trackball and see how they manage :D
what i love is when my boss thinks she needs more ram because her HDD are getting full :p
tom10167
10-11-05, 08:57 PM
Yo stuff like this frusturates me to no end and if I even think of one of these countless stories that have happened personally to me I'm just going to implode or maybe kill a lot of stuff.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
subtotal
10-11-05, 08:59 PM
i remember reading one of those tech-anecdotes that went something like...
tech: "...the problem is you don't have enough memory in your computer"
customer: "Can't you just email me some?"
if mice didnt have balls then they would all be female and a sexual right?
if mice didnt have balls then they would all be female and a sexual right?
Asexuality = the absence of sex, no male or female
a·sex·u·al adj.
1. Having no evident sex or sex organs; sexless.
2. Relating to, produced by, or involving reproduction that occurs without the union of male and female gametes, as in binary fission or budding.
3. Lacking interest in or desire for sex.
I'm getting too technical :p
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