computard

[rumblemonk]

yes i am. and very proud of it i might add, although a question i have.
How the hell do i get an avatar?

Thank you

[The Meromorph]

click on the profile tag at the top of the page...

[rumblemonk]

thanks that was pretty stupid of me

[The Meromorph]

Hey, it's an unfamiliar format... 

You may also want to click on the 2nd of the faint icons on the very top right of the forum page.
And experiment with clicking on the four color patches on the left habd side at the top of the page (Most people seem to like the green one best...).

[Al Dante]

You may also want to click on the 2nd of the faint icons on the very top right of the forum page.

Zounds!

My vision hasn't improved so much with one single click, since the last time I turned off Fox News!

Thanks!

Best,
Allenbatrachus

[Opsa]

RUMBLEMONK!! So very glad to see you hereabouts, avatar or not.

Looks like you picked an interesting one.

[anthrobabe]

Oh Wow
I'm glad I found this thread

[goat starer]

Blimey! I have just realised the site looks good. them triksy little faint buttons

[anthrobabe]

One of the senior siblings should start a cafe press shop-- if not done already- and in addition to Honorable Toadfish items it should stock "computard" shirts and mousepads--- I love it
      computard     

[Opsa]

I would like to nominate myself for Computard of the Week. I managed to lock myself out of the monastery yesterday afternoon. Many thanks to our good Sibling MentalBlock for finding the keys.

We could make a prize, a Computard Cup if you will, for the most technologically inept person of the week. Maybe it could be a styrofoam coffe cup on a pedastal. Or maybe something primitive, like a coconut lashed to a small stump.

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

I think a coffee cup sitting on a CD-ROM disk tray, as recounted in the first paragraph on this page might be appropriate to the spirit of the award.

Todd Fink, senior telecommunications administrator at Premier Bankcard in Sioux Falls, S.D., says he once got a request from a user looking for another coffee holder for his computer.

"I asked him what he meant by another coffee holder and he said 'You know, the one that pops out of the PC,'" Fink says.  "He thought the CD-ROM drive was a cupholder."

[Aggie]

I was thinking of something involving a helmet (inverted on a pedestal?)... like the cheap plastic hockey helmets when we were kids, eh Lambi?

Can't find a picture of one.  That might be better for the Annual Award for Special Acheivement.  The coffee cup would do well for a weekly award.

[Sibling Chatty]

As the most technotarded person on the face of the planet, I volunteer to help judge the competition.

As a professional, and former Universal Champion, in the field, I should be declared ineligible in the competition from the beginning.

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

I was thinking of something involving a helmet (inverted on a pedestal?)... like the cheap plastic hockey helmets when we were kids, eh Lambi?

Helmets?  I never got a helmet.   

(he says while everyone nods knowingly to themselves: "THAT'S why he's the way he is.  Hmmm.")

Acutally, I've never played hockey on ice  (I've skated, and I've played indoor & street hockey, but I've never combined the two activities).  I can barely skate, so it's probably for the best.

But if you mean the "I'm going to wear this flimsy lacrosse helmet because Wayne Gretzky did and everything Wayne Gretzky does is cool" helmet, then yeah, I know what you're talking about.

[Aggie]

But if you mean the "I'm going to wear this flimsy lacrosse helmet because Wayne Gretzky did and everything Wayne Gretzky does is cool" helmet, then yeah, I know what you're talking about.

That's the one!  The 'Murrican equivalent is probably a cheap toy football helmet.  I haven't played much hockey either.... the last time I can think of was a restaurant Christmas party with no helmets and free booze, so pretty much your brain cells were getting it either way.

[Griffin NoName]

You may be looking for something like this. Cup, floppy disk, and coffee spillage.



It's a fake. I've had it on my desk in every job I've been in for years. It fools everyone. The number of people who have gasped, rushed over to it, only to pick it up, coffee spill and all !!!  In one job, someone senior to me and nightmare boss to many people, just looked at me in utter disgust after seeing it and went to leave the room. When I picked it up, I was in even worse trouble. Hard to amuse some.

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

You may be looking for something like this. Cup, floppy disk, and coffee spillage.



It's a fake. I've had it on my desk in every job I've been in for years. It fools everyone. The number of people who have gasped, rushed over to it, only to pick it up, coffee spill and all !!!  In one job, someone senior to me and nightmare boss to many people, just looked at me in utter disgust after seeing it and went to leave the room. When I picked it up, I was in even worse trouble. Hard to amuse some.

I suppose it's a fine example of dissing a little frog who is king of a tiny pond.

It may be only a tiny pond, but that little frog NEEDS to be 'in charge' of something, in order to justify it's existance/behavior.

Sometimes, ya just gotta say 'yes boss' and keep yer eyes on the exit - YOU'LL be somewhere better, some day, but that frog will STILL be sitting in a tiny, stinking little mud-puddle. <heh>