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> Have to agree with Darren, I've heard stupider.
Oh, sure, I've heard _worse_.
These aren't stupid on the scale of Verizon Math Fail, but stupid on the
scale of "for goodness sake, go away and stop pestering me!"
>> Yesterday almost nobody spoke to me.
>
>> Since thing the day before.
>
> Have I missed something?
No, but I apparently missed a couple of keys on my keyboard.
(That should of course be "same thing the day before".)
>> But today, everybody seems to want to ask silly questions.
>>
>> My mum called me to ask whether to leave the birthday card I haven't
>> signed yet at home so that I can sign it. (Duh.)
>
> Or should she fake your signature so as to get it in the post, or shall
> she bring it down to you, or should she give it to X to pass on to you.
> Context is king.
Well, since I'll be home in an hour or so and I'm coming to where the
card needs to be taken... it's fairly self-evident that leaving the card
there is the thing to do. (The alternative I suppose is to take the card
over there blank and I'll sign it when I get there - but this seems less
optimal.)
>> My grandad phoned to ask where my mum is, but I was driving, and by
>> the time I'd stopped driving and had a chance to call him back, he'd
>> found her anyway.
>
> Hardly stupid unless you were out of the country to which the answer
> would be "How the hell should I know?"
Well, you know, I almost *never* know where the hell my mother is. Why
ask me? Phone her! (In retrospect, maybe they did. She never ****ing
answers anyway...)
>> One of our project managers asked me what the difference between
>> "tab-deliminted text file" and "pipe-delimited text file" is.
>
> Again if you know what delimited means you can guess, but if you don't
> "what's a pipe?"
I'm still trying to figure out why the hell she wanted to know, but
anyway...
>> But so far, at just after 2PM, the current winner is this:
>>
>> "How can I convert milivolts to microsiemens?"
>
> Well, we all have off days.
This was the least-stupid question of them all, IMHO.
(It turns out we have a machine that takes measurements in microseimens,
but some software we use needs a value in milivolts. And while they are
completely different dimensions, if you knew the properties of the
machine, it's conceivable that a constant conversion factor actually
exists...)
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