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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.
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 !
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!"
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...
For those who don't know, here's the wikipedia article.
Building a computer is the best inter-gender activity this guy came up with? He is a true geek.
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.
- 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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I'll bet you're AWESOME at pillow-talk.