Amnesia

Searching for the picture of the cat in my previous thread, I came across some favorites.

Enjoy!

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Weekend Assignment #153: When Computers Attack

Ever since my father had a stroke 2 years ago, we have been webcamming to watch over each other.  He bought a really great camera and decided to buy me one as well. However, my system did not like the custom driver installation option. I immediately started getting Dr. Watson errors and Internet Explorer crashes. Figuring I could repair windows xp instead of re-installing, I slipped in the disc, got half way through the install and it froze on me after asking for the networking disc from AMD.

Long story short, I spent three hours on a bogus fix and freaking out that I had lost all my data. Come to find out, I didn’t lose anything but my next problem was that I had no way to data transfer for a complete rebuild. I have approximately 32 GB of music along with priceless pictures on my HDD. When I built the system from scratch 7 months ago, I didn’t account for data transfer or backup. Whoops.

Which brings me to my next story.

My father wanted to play BF2142. He needed a memory and video card upgrade. I wanted to see the inside configuration before purchasing anything, so I plucked the case off the Dell, got the inner specs and shut it. As I boot it up and got ready to leave, I get the blue screen of death. No bootable drive! I’m guessing in the jostle to get the case open, I must have done something to bump or damage the drive.
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Thank God for Youtube.com. I was feeling a bit down today so I went surfing for something fun. Figuring I needed something to make me laugh, I searched for some outtakes and found the following. They are in order as to how much I liked them. I wish there were more, but alas this is the only ones I could think of! Enjoy and feel free to post your own.

 5.) Tommy Boy

4.) Toy Story

3.) Bruce Almighty 

2.) A Bug’s Life

1.) Serenity - Joss Wheedon : Warning this contains profanity, but is probably the funniest outtake reel I’ve ever seen.

Honorable Mention - Scrubs Blooper Episode

Roughly a week after I wrote my first piece on the subject, The Washington Post came out with an expose on the conditions at the top military hospital  — Walter Reed. As you can see from the linked article, conditions there are extremely poor.

Behind the door of Army Spec. Jeremy Duncan’s room, part of the wall is torn and hangs in the air, weighted down with black mold. When the wounded combat engineer stands in his shower and looks up, he can see the bathtub on the floor above through a rotted hole. The entire building, constructed between the world wars, often smells like greasy carry-out. Signs of neglect are everywhere: mouse droppings, belly-up cockroaches, stained carpets, cheap mattresses.
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