Of Lightning… and “Uber Geek”
There’s two absolutely amusing & saddening events that occured for the last two days.
What, sad news first? Okay :’(
Well anyways, as usual living in highly static-charged city like JB, give you amazing results, especially when you’re playing with power of nature, specifically lightning. This time it’s not that I’m being stubborn that I still surfing when its thunderstorming heavily, but just pure bad luck.
I was powering down my PC when I noticed there’s a huge chance of thunderstorm happening through my window, but as my pc was about to power down (yeah, when the motherboard was about to “click” the PSU off), FIVE (5), yes, FIVE consecutive lightning strikes occured within 3 seconds. I heard a loud “pop” on my PSU and freaked out.
After the thunderstorm went away, I flipped the switch back on only to find out that it doesn’t even want to start. (Now I wish I had purchased that PCI debug card, grr). Changed PSU, and still doesn’t work. “Can’t be…” I thought. Changed mobo, and it worked.
Damn. There goes my faithful NF7-S. I didn’t even overclock it. *Sigh*
What happens now? I pulled my “reserved” EpoX and AMD 1800+ (this mobo doesn’t support my Barton). So now I’m basically running on it. And I need to find PCI-SATA card to mount my SATA disk (all my valuable files in there x.x). Anybody got a lead on this card?
*sigh*
Ok enough with the sad news. Let’s get on a cute (and funny) one, that involves what I call “uber geek”. And no, I’m not talking about myself.
It was Wednesday night, I am working as usual manning the CyberCafe. Come this one dude, with somewhat weird “I r t3h man” walking style, PDA on one hand, Phone on the other, Bluetooth headphone on the ear, rushed into the CC and walk around looking for PCs. He found one, rudely called me “woo! woo! oi! wei! bukak pc ni”. Bastard.
Anyways, after he’s done, he paid his bill – RM7.00 (thats about 3 and a half hours), and started staring, looking, checking out the CPU of the PC I’m using (its not THAT leet, but kinda enthusiast-ish). His first question cracks me up (but I laughed my ass off silently because I don’t want to humiliate him):
“Dik, PC ni takde turbo ke?”
( “Kid, does this PC have a turbo?” )
I stopped doing my work (still cracking up silently), gave him a weird stare, and look back at my monitor, saying:
“Ni PC la bang, bukannye kereta!”
( “This is a PC bro, not a bloody Car”)
After that, he just went out. For a drink I guess, as about half and hour after that, he’s back, with a file in his hand, and asked me to activate PC15 and PC16 (he’s got a friend with him)
After about an hour, he come and ask for PC14 to be activated. I was like “Huh?” but I did it anyways. Another half an hour, he comes to me again and asked for PC13.
Being so curious, I took out a bulb in the drawer, and pretends to try to fix it into the housing (which is nearby this dude’s terminal, and that the lights there is broken anyways). So i take a glance on what on earth this dude doing with three freaking PCs.
Results:
PC15 – Two IE windows open
PC14 – OpenOffice Write (MS Word like)
PC13 – Two IE windows open
He must’ve think hes so leet that he can operate three PCs at once. But to me, hes just stupid, because he can just open all that with one PC :/
End of the day? He paid RM21.00 for all four PCs (instead of just RM 12.00)
Talk about “Uber Geek”. Die please, bro.
