Sometimes I think we "guys" (regardless of gender) actually enjoy it when things don't work. Solving problems is (sometimes) fun and (internally) rewarding.
Remember the quiz from the old Dave Barry book on guys? It starts: Are You a Guy? Take This Scientific Quiz to Determine Your Guyness Quotient 1. Alien beings from a highly advanced society visit the Earth, and you are the first human they encounter. As a token of intergalactic friendship, they present you with a small but incredibly sophisticated device that is capable of curing all disease, providing an infinite supply of clean energy, wiping out hunger and poverty, and permanently eliminating oppression and violence all over the entire Earth. You decide to: a. Present it to the president of the United States. b. Present it to the secretary general of the United Nations. c. Take it apart. You *know* the answer! Still makes me laugh. On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Ken Kixmoeller (ProFox) < [email protected]> wrote: > Well, Mike, I am ***extremely**** happy to be married to SWMBO, even > though "I keeed, I keeed." She is brilliant and beautiful and an incredible > organizer and mom. She is the best. Her only real flaw (other than the > impatience thing) is her choice in a husband. > > Ted, that is why I switched her over to a Mac. This was after she > (literally) tried to throw her Windoze laptop across the room. I caught it > on the backswing. She also bought an iPad (that name still *inhales > vigorously*). Try to synchronize (a subset of) eBooks on the iPad using > iTunes, and that is past the limit. > > The teenagers seem willing fo mess with some stuff, but hardware is > outside of their interests (or maybe they rely on me too much [*big* > mistake!]) > > > On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Ted Roche <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Ken Kixmoeller (ProFox) < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> > >> > OK, I have wanted to "talk" about this for a while. Thanks for the >> opening, >> > Ted. >> > >> >> I worked with the MythTV project for several years, buying and tweaking on >> analog then digital cable adapters (not descramblers, legal stuff) and >> transcoding, recording and playing back hundreds of hours of TV (ex. 2 am >> reruns of X-Files) over a couple of years. The project had an acronym, >> WAF, >> which stood for Wife (or Woman) Acceptance Factor. The sexism isn't >> appropriate, there are plenty of non-techie males who have just as low a >> tolerance for "wiggling the rabbit ears." But WAF was cited over and over >> as the reason why they couldn't cut the cable or use various MythTV >> players >> as their set-top box. >> >> >> > Regardless of her extreme reactions (she isn't the most patient >> person), is >> > it now reasonable to expect tech stuff to behave like an appliance? >> >> >> Hahahahahahahaha. Good one! roflmao! >> >> Would you say that was true of Windows 7? No. Linux? No. OSX? Well,... >> almost. >> >> Tablets? Yes,.... except when they don't. >> >> Game consoles have pretty much reached that level, most of the time. >> >> TV/computer hybrids? Not yet.We're in the middle of "digital convergence" >> and no one knows where it will end. Form factor? Ads? Wireless? 4G? MP4? >> Source? Hulu? Amazon? Google? Play4Sure? Yuck. >> >> > Is this a female thing -- guys are more willing to tease out >> >> > features? Our girls (teenagers) are more patient, but still show little >> > inclination to fool around to make stuff work. Is is a personality type, >> > regardless of gender? Is is a geek thing that we *are* willing to >> tolerate >> > stuff that we need to puzzle out to get it to work right? >> > >> >> I think guys are far more likely to have the Nerd genotype. But I have met >> many women my equal or better in techie skills. Socially, I think women >> have been pushed in other directions for centuries (kitchen work, nursing, >> libraries, schools) but more recently, we're seeing studies that the "math >> gap" is mythical and socially-imposed, not due to different inclinations. >> >> So, I think society has taught us it's the manly thing to roll up our >> sleeves and get dirty fixing things, while women may have the common sense >> to be exasperated at a simple appliance that should Just Work(tm). >> >> -- >> Ted Roche >> Ted Roche & Associates, LLC >> http://www.tedroche.com >> >> >> --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- >> multipart/alternative >> text/plain (text body -- kept) >> text/html >> --- >> [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CAFyV=LkC0TPzXho+664C13VDdKhumqC8zRNPh_VPwq03wGEP=w...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. 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