On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 22:38:41 -0600, Edmund Cramp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The shower went wrong this morning, so I called out a programmer. It was > my fault. I rebooted the john, owing to how it wouldn't flush, > but was stuck on a modal dialog saying Now wash your hands OK/Cancel and > thought I would freshen up while I waited for it to finish its login > sequence. So I stepped into the cubicle and waved my hand over the > virtual faucet, and of course I got a stream of boiling mango scented > gel down my right boob, Yipe!, because, as Bill explained later in his > email, the Net DDE link with the boiler had gone down when I rebooted > the toilet.
You have a "right boob"? > Then I got mad, which was kind of silly, because this sort of thing must > happen to other people most days, and I pressed the emergency > reboot button for the whole bathroom, which of course you mustn't do > while the toilet is rebooting in case it picks up a stray interrupt and goes > into its emergency back up routine. Which it did and it did. I wouldn't > have minded so much except of course I couldn't wash it off in the > shower because the shower was still spurting molten mango goo, and I > wasn't really in a fit state to call out the 24-hour programmer over the > vidlink. So in the end I emailed him priority Urgent. It took him ages > to get here, because of course you need LoveNest security clearance > level to get through all the doors to our en suite bathroom, and he had > to literally hack his way in, so it was 4:00 pm before I got to fix > myself up and have a blueberry waffle. You could have called me. I have LoveNest (TM) security on all e-homes due to my licensing agreement with Microsoft. It's a very restrictive EULA, however, and only allows me to log in to one home at a time. > > I do wish that Bill were here, instead of on an evangelising mission > persuading the Native Australian Aborigines to use NT for boomerang > design. He is such a practical man to have about the house. Aboriginal peoples usually require the choice of whether or not they want to use a GUI on their boomerangs. Coherent or Apple Basic might be a better choice.
