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Your comment brought to mind a recent Sheldon Comics take on how you react to basic pain.

In my case, my pain in getting up from the floor is usually in my muscles which protest at having been kept in a particular position for too long. A couple of seconds and I'm back to normal.

In any event, I think we can agree that old age doesn't begin at 25.

Non-oblig. comic ref.

That said, I think "data" counts as a "non-count" noun in its typical modern usage. Like "information", or "water", or "peanut butter", it may be composed of many individual bits, but it's talked about as a blob, not as a large number of individual bits.

Forget XKCD, this calls for an oblig Sheldon.

I say. Are ya'll talkin' about noo-tritious kawn shugga?

http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/100512.html

Is this related to the Star Wars babies rumor from a bit ago?
Sheldon: Sheldon Talk forum: Star Wars Babies! GUHHHHHHHHHHH

The delicious solution is almond butter.

Hey look, it's a comic strip that's related: Sheldon Comic Strip: Daily Webcomic by Dave Kellett

I like how a recent Sheldon comic described British libel laws:

Sheldon: "British libel laws are the worst! A fat-head can sue you for callin' him a fat-head, even when it's demonstrable in court that he's a total and complete fat-head... even to OTHER fat-heads!"

Arthur: "What? No way. Then how do they call out fat-heads in Britain?"

Sheldon: "The nation suffers in silence."

Everything under the hood is "the engine".
The monitor is "the computer".
The computer is "the hard drive".

If you don't know how or when to listen to people, you should hide out on the interweb.

http://sheldoncomics.com/strips/sd090416.gif

Yeah, sure. A big part of tech support is often personal interaction - something some of our fellow techies need serious work on. But that's just blowing off the issue.

A monitor is "the computer" except for when it's actually the monitor. And "the hard drive" is the computer except when they're actually talking about a hard drive. The thing is confusing and complex enough without adding to the confusion with mismatched terminology (i.e. from the article someone expecting that "replacing a hard drive" was getting them an entirely new system).

Cashier has no honor!

This news reminds me of a recent, funny, and relevant strip from the comic Sheldon: http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/081229.html

Not as geeky as posting an xkcd comic, but here's some related Sheldon comics on the subject:

http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/080523.html
http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/080524.html

Not as geeky as posting an xkcd comic, but here's some related Sheldon comics on the subject:

http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/080523.html
http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/080524.html

Don't underestimate the power of lizard tongue flicks.

http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/070127.html

Squee!

Don't underestimate the power of lizard tongue flicks.

http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/070127.html

Squee!

See here...

Dave Kellett, the artist who draws Sheldon predicted this in his "Microsoft Healthcare" series of comics last week. Here they are (the prediction's in the last one):

http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/071010.html

http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/071011.html

http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/071012.html

Dave Kellett, the artist who draws Sheldon predicted this in his "Microsoft Healthcare" series of comics last week. Here they are (the prediction's in the last one):

http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/071010.html

http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/071011.html

http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/071012.html

Dave Kellett, the artist who draws Sheldon predicted this in his "Microsoft Healthcare" series of comics last week. Here they are (the prediction's in the last one):

http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/071010.html

http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/071011.html

http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/071012.html

Sheldon called this!

Good job! You used "paradigm" correctly!

What the hell? What kind of company is this?!

Sheldonsoft?

They are obsessed with pushing you to use their Website rather than calling them.

This one seems far more likely... http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/070409.html

Sheldon's view of the Title