It is posts like these that convince me I should not be sifting through my Google Reader during class.  Laughing out loud is a little suspicious when the professor is talking about Middle East bureaucracy and wasta.

That said, I love it.

Though their passion for national health care runs deep, it is important to remember that white people are most in favor of it when they are healthy. They love the idea of everyone have equal access to the resources that will keep them alive, that is until they have to wait in line for an MRI.

This is very similar to the way that white people express their support for public schools when they don’t have children.

So true, so true.

Dell: Thank you for contacting Dell Hardware Warranty Support, my name is Roderick. Please provide me the details about the issue you’re having?

Me: my laptop is really slow in everything it does and it freezes a lot. programs take forever to load and just today it won’t play dvds

Dell: I will try my best to resolve this for you. I really apologize for the issue you are having. I totally understand how frustrating this must be for you. Are you on that system now?

Me: yes

Dell: Lets try the following: Click on start, run type in MSCONFIG and click ok. Click on the startup tab; uncheck everything except things dealing with the virus protection and quickset.Then click apply.

Me: i’m sorry, what do you mean by “run type in MSCONFIG”? search for MSCONFIG?

Dell: Lets type run in the search box.

Me: ok, then type MSCONFIG in the run box?

Dell: Yes.

Me: I typed MSCONFIG… it’s just taking a while to come up

Me: it’s still not showing up…

Me: ok, here it is. so how do I know what is virus protection/quickset related?

Dell: What virus protection do you have on the system?

Me: McAfee

Dell: Is it listed? If not its okay.

Me: just the mcafee spamkiller

Dell: Leave that checked.

Me: and uncheck everything else? windows defender, synaptics pointing device driver, intel stuff?

Dell: Yes.

Me: what about microsoft windows operating system?

Dell: Leave that checked.

Me: and dell support?

Dell: Uncheck.

As far as I’m concerned, that about sums it up.

So, eventually I have to restart my computer.

Dell: Please do not restart your system until you see a prompt asking you to reboot. Just as a reminder, you will only have 30 minutes to take the necessary steps and Resume our session. Do you have any questions before I Suspend our session?

Me: I’ll resume within 30 minutes (assuming it doesn’t take my computer a year to restart)

…

Dell: WELCOME BACK!

Me: thanks, so it took about 15 minutes for my computer to restart. that’s on the list of things i’d like to have fixed

Dell: Is the system running slow?

ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME? IS THE SYSTEM RUNNING SLOW?

Anyway, as it turns out, I have to do PC restore… you know, the one that erases everything?

Oh, the joys of modern technology.

Edit:  Continuing with the theme of modern technology expressing its love for me, the weird formatting is staying.  It won’t leave.  Whatever.