>> This is where I mumble something about immitation being the more sincere 
>> form of flattery or something...
> 
> Or the fastest way to royally piss me off. lol! ;-)

That too...

>> As you may know, while I was at uni doing my BSc, I regularly had MSc 
>> students that I'd never met before in my life wander up to me and ask in 
>> broken English whether I could "fix their Java". I have no idea how the 
>> hell they knew my name or my skill with Java...
> 
> *head in hands* Oh god...yes I know what you mean...I have similar problems 
> with my family, who usually won't even speak to me unless "the internet is 
> broken" or some such nonsense.
> I typically end up explaining to them that they most probably have no 
> business being even anywhere *near* a computer.

Buy the T-shirt: "No, I will NOT fix your computer. Go away before I 
replace you with a Haskell one-liner."

> I feel to a degree that if you can't write a program (ANY program) you 
> shouldn't be allowed to use one either. Thats how people end up doing 
> retarded things like downloading "free" games/cursors until their computer 
> takes 20min to boot and another 15 to get to the desktop once they type in 
> their password (which is usually absent) because of the fact they have 3500 
> or so adware, spyware, keyloggers, droppers, backdoors and whatnots 
> cavorting about within their machine committing such vile and assorted 
> programattic debaucheries that even Caligula would blush. *massive inhale*

Heh. I did see one computer that, no matter how many times I disinfected 
it, next week it was infected again. I was astounded at how this could 
be so.

While the owner wasn't that bright, I should perhaps point out that it 
ha--WINDOWS ME!! NEED I SAY MORE?!

> Off to complete my compositional analysis of HR Gigers "The Spell 
> IV"....damned classes...

I say "people are strange" and you start talking about *Giger*?!

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