Sorry.
ETF?
Bah, Idle Thoughts stole my thunder…
fizzy?
Not this time.
Idle Thoughts, my Arizona cactus?
Back from supper! Too bad duty calls me, in a shrill, unpleasant voice, to toil at my proofreading rather than playing upon the board.
lel, does your prognosticating stovepipe foresee a winning lottery ticket in my future?
Jaade
Nope.
NCB.
My mom is definitely computer-illiterate. She thinks that MSN Messenger is the same thing as email… at least, she always tells my sister to “email” me about stuff. We’ve told her it’s not the same thing at all, but she doesn’t get it. “Well, you communicate with her using the computer… so it must be email…” is what she thinks.
There was the time last year that my brother was talking to my sister on MSN, and my mom wanted to tell her something. So my brother let her take over the computer, and it took her a really long time to type out what she wanted to say. (fair enough, as not everyone can be a lightning-fast typist) But when my brother was back on the computer, talking to a few of his friends… that’s when the stupid questions started. “Has she responded to me yet?” “Why hasn’t she responded yet?” "Who’s ‘Tally’ ? " “How do you know that she’s answered you yet?” (no, we don’t know, a friend of my brother’s, and we KNOW because a new message window will appear on the taskbar!)
Suffice to say that my brother and I had to be very patient with her; I can’t speak for him, but I felt a bit frustrated at her questions. (even though MSN is a new concept for her) She also thinks that she knows how to work all email programs, since she knows how to operate the one at her work. Not true, Mom.
Thank goodness we talked her out of getting a webcam last summer by telling her it was too expensive. It’s not, really… but she won’t know. In the past, she’s wanted Hotmail accounts… but we had to check it since she never used it for anything. Eventually, we got tired of deleting all the spam… so let it lie dormant, and de-activate by itself. (no, we didn’t set her up with another one… despite her best “do it because I need it, and I told you so” tactics)
She sent me an email once, but it had no subject. Since I’m always wary of those, even when they come from people I know, I deleted it after looking at it. When I tried explaining to her why she should put a subject in her emails, her only defense was: “Well, I’m your mom… would I send you a virus?” You just never know, these days…
She also wanted me to set up an ICQ account for her… yes, it would be relatively simple for us to figure out,. But with her lack of computer knowledge, I don’t think she’ll do too well if we were to set one up for her. Thank goodness we didn’t… otherwise, I’d probably have to put up with clueless ICQ messages from her. (or I would have, if ICQ weren’t currently too much for my poor computer to handle)
Luckily, my dad’s more computer-savvy than my mom.
F_X
Nope. I was on the moon. Sorry. There aren’t ISPs on the moon.
Flamsterette_X
I was on page 13!! I didn’t even know it 
My guess: AbbySthrnAccent
Hey! I haven’t been goofing off…
Much 
fizzymakegoodfeelnice
Thank you. I think.
Angua I can’t believe you thought I was a bloke! Just for that I’m going to predict you next. ner ner na ner ner.
Well, I didn’t! This is what shocked me. I was 100% convinced that you were a girl 
Besides, I’m a physicist, approximately 90% of the people I know are male! In fact, in our office of 5 (at the moment, soon to be 10 when the new postgrads arrive), I’m the only girl…
Ah, good evenin’, I thought I’d catch you ladies here
Paging fizzyfeelgoodmakenice…
Evening? Its 11am. I have six hours before I have to hand in my midterm report! Argh!
fizzy’s going to make an appearance just for me, aren’t you, petal?
There are other time zones ya know 
Midterm for what subject?
Lbosang is gonna come online and post here in 3, 2…1…
Yeah, I know. I was being facetious
The midterm’s for my astrophysics PhD. Its esentially an end of first year thesis-type report on what I’ve achieved in the past year, what I’m planning to do in the next two years, and just how much do I know about the background of my subject.
Its 40 pages long, and is now essentially a good introductory text to the stuff I’m working on.
garius
Ooh… when I was a kid I wanted to be an astrophysicist. Before reality set in . I was around 14 when my dad gave me an old book of his called: Black Holes and Warped Spacetime by William J. Kaufmann, which I’ve read about five times or so…
…and when I finish the post, I’ll predict you, Angua since you aren’t working on that paper!
We’ve just had a fire alarm… It was fun, someone burnt toast. We got eye candy in the form of gogreous hunky firemen though
green_bladder
A gogreous fireman eh, Angua? Sounds like some kind of nasty disease
I’m going to predict Super Gnat, then I’m going to go and get dressed.