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Couple Bonding Through PC Building
mikemuch writes "When his lovely girlfriend Glenda needed a new PC, Jason Cross, who spends much of the week assembling PCs with the latest gear to test for ExtremeTech, decided he would let her build it herself. She gave him her list of needs, he came up with a part list, and then watched as she did all the screwdriver wielding herself. Despite a DOA hard drive and some mis-connected wires, everyone was smiling when it was all finished. (Slide show here.)"
It's news because someone on slashdot finally got a girlfriend. CONGRATS!
This is /. Both are true.
But, when the nice priest tries to "girlfriend" your ass, it's OK to call him a bad man.
It's a geek, and he's got a girlfriend... of course this is major news!
Slashdot social media options: AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, Jabber and Mobile Text. Why no MySpace?
First, a self-professed geek (see author bio), has a girlfriend. This alone deserves several duplicates on slashdot front page. Second, astonishingly, she is not ugly. This would deserve to be on the NYTimes or FoxNews. Third, he manages to combine voyeurism and shiny new hardware - all this documented with color pictures !
Look at his girl! Come on. This fake as can be. Notice the well exposed photos too. Is her Boyfriend an expert at photography too?
HOT CHICK was a dead give away. FAKE.
Gee. Isn't it great that slashdot provides encouragement such as this? Now girls don't have to be afraid of putting a PC together! I hope slashdot will provide further encouragement by covering the first girl to attend University or do nuclear physics.
"Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot features Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available."
It appears to be the first story tagged under "relationships" and the second tagged as "romance." Next up look for "recipes", "ab crunches" and "what he REALLY wants in bed!"
On the other hand, let me be the first to say: please don't. At this stage I really am afraid that it'd be posted.
He let her install Vista on her shiny new PC! :(
Friends don't let friends install Vista.
My dad always hand-tightens screws on computer cases. Of course, most people need a power screwdriver to get them *out* after he's tightened them, but...
Her name is Glenda, so she runs Plan 9 (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/glenda.html)
For those who don't know, here's the wikipedia article.
> Shes going to do this while I play with her Wii.
Giggety giggety.
Yeah, I can't believe they didn't go with Plan 9.
Well, it sure as hell is better to call it WEI than CPH (crashes-per-hour).
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Building a computer is the best inter-gender activity this guy came up with? He is a true geek.
Let me rephrase that...
It's a geek, and he's got a girlfriend, and she's not pixellated... of course this is major news!
WARNING: Smartphones have side effects--most of them undocumented.
Tss.... I mean, I understand the joke, I sure do. But I'm still a bit miffed.
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- I'm on
- I'm a geek
- I have a girlfriend
- She is good looking and pregnant to boot
- I caused the pregnancy
- To top it off, she's a former HP-UX and Service Guard field technician and account support engineer
- She did VMS maintenance for the Israeli army during the draft
- She is currently an L2 storage software support engineer
Why is this clown on the front page with his better half while I am not? My girlfriend could out-weld pretty much anyone's girlfriend on this forum. Is it because of the photos?
It's just not fair!
I agree completely. This shows how vile Microsoft is as a company, by choosing this absurd scale without a nice round number as a maximum. Seriously, decisions like this show how the company should be broken up and have the workers sold into slavery - brothels for the women, while the men can be sent down mines in third world countries.
Forget DRM, this arbitary scale of the Windows Experience Index is what will really kill off the operating system.
It is so obvious that the scale should have had a maximum of 10, with the current level of computers sitting at around 1.5. And in many years to come when computer hardware has progressed enough to surpass 10, they should make it constantly play a looped voice saying "DOES NOT COMPUTE" while emitting smoke from the hard drive. This is the only sensible solution.
"MOV HerStuff, YourPlace"
More like
MOV DX,AH
(yes, I know I lost 8 bits)
I reserve the write to mangle english.
- I have a girlfriend
- She is good looking and pregnant to boot
- I caused the pregnancy
You know, some people would consider getting married in the circumstances...
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65 ? Now, isn't that funny. I mugged a grandma and stole her PC with the same specs. Only cost me 10 for the knife I used to carve my mugging club.
Modded +1, Touche'
I'll bet you're AWESOME at pillow-talk.
In other breaking news, Slahshdot user SmaugRulz28 reports that his kitty is a very cute kitty...yesss he is...yesss he isss.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
We're going to wait for Maury to announce the DNA test results just the same, thanks...
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I think you misspelled "Touchy". And also I think someone switched the "-" key for the "+".
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
So buying from ExtremeTech is supposed to get me laid or something?
"The moral of the story for all you geeks is: expect women to like you; do not be afraid to challenge them; if you aren't decisive, then fake it; expect them to yield to your boldness; and learn how to dance, because few things are more indicative of a man's confidence than his willingness to make a fool of himself on the dance floor."
Screw that, I'm going to have an operation and become a businesswoman.
If moderation could change anything, it would be illegal.
Ah, so *that's* why your last name is Norris!
There is one "race", the human race.
I can't believe you even said that! Don't you realize you are marginalizing the other races?!?
What about these:
100 meter race
500 meter race
the marathon
You need to be more sensitive!