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It sounds kind of macabre but Phoenix thinks I have it. I can crash pretty much any computer in a matter of minutes... no problem.
He is just built me a new computer... state of the art, tuned to the max... and raring to go.
He kept it at his place until he was sure it was all bulletproof... and then brought it to my studio this morning.
You guessed it... I crashed it within minutes. He asked me what I had done to make it fail... I looked at him blankly, and told him.... 'nothin'.
I only had 4 programs open, linked to three other computers, was doing some honking big files, burning some disks and logged on to here while getting my mail.... I don't know what happened.... REALLY.
I have a theory of course. Back when I was young I coun't wear a watch which touched my skin. If I did it would go all wonky and not keep time. A doctor explained to me I had too much static electricity in my body and to wear a double strap which would keep the watch from touching my arm... I did and the watches ran perfectly.
So I'm wondering if this 'electric personality' somehow fouls up my computer like it did my watch... I like that theory. It makes sense to me. It couldn't possibly be how I USE my computers.
Phoenix just calls it my touch of DEATH.
-grampa dan
-------------------- Dan Sawatzky Imagination Corporation Yarrow, British Columbia dan@imaginationcorporation.com http://www.imaginationcorporation.com
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Increase the virtual memory settings on ALL your machines in the shop if you are networking huge files. Also, try not to multitask when using these big files as well. It pushes the processors harder.
If not, might I suggest a can of Static Guard? Rapid
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Maybe you could MultiCam an Apple logo and glue it on the side of your machine. They don't crash!
Or try opening up more programs and running larger files. Or try running the vacuum with some HDU dust on the old MultiCam right before sitting down to the commputer? Just trying to help!
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I can't wear a watch either, Dan. And now that you mention it, I tend to crash computers too! Eerie. Love.....Jill
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I can wear watches but I do crash computers real quick. I just had someone build me another computer...state of the art too...water cooled, 2 gigs ram, etc. He still had it on the table and wanted me to test drive it as it had been working perfectly for him. I sat down, started creating a file in PShop and boom...locked up.
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I discovered at a young age that I couldn't wear a watch too. Wind up watches quit after only a few hours.
Once battery operated ones came out I tried them...same thing. They would quit running within hours of being on my wrist.
I haven't worn a wrist watch in over 45 years.
But, for some reason the clock on my computers keep time pretty well, as do the actual computers run. Maybe they are used to static electricity???
After all these years I still have a pretty good idea of what time it is even without a wrist watch though.
And all these years I thought I was the only person who couldn't wear a wrist watch.
Thanks for letting me know I am not weird or possessed!!!!
Well I know I am weird but that is another story.
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All of you folks who find you can't wear a watch, might consider that perhaps it's because you're slightly ahead of your time. That's the complimentary of looking at it. Unfortunately, way back in elementary school, my teachers had an entirely different way of looking at the situation. They thought I was "backward". Always drawing doodles in my math note books.( I hated math ).
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and here i just thought I didn't move enough to keep a self-winding watch going! Thanks, guys! the time-less Cat (with time on my hands)
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Dan, are you sure you were holding a mouse and not the PLASMA cutter !
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My wife has the same problem with everything she touches- no watches, she has a unique ability to make files disappear off of a USB Flash drive, and we seem to have more than our share of electrical problems with vehicles. I told her it was her magnetic personality! Now, let's just hope I never have to get a pacemaker!
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Well...I just happen to be an expert on this situation and can tell you immediately what the problem is:
It's that large object over in the corner that makes all that noise. The ions produced from the transfer of information from your brain, to the computer, to the router are creating a force field that is effecting everything around you. This is enhanced by your proximity to the north pole. You simply have overloaded the synax of the atmosphere and as a result objects that were intended to remain in boxes have for some reason been rearranged to function outside of that box and you have screwed up the universe.
The solution is to move that large, flat object futher south, preferably out of the country, and allow the amino acids in your dioxyribonucleaic mechanicisms to rearrange themselves into a more favorable sitution, one in which you are no longer making everyone miserable.
Dan, if this is not clear, please let me know and I will draw you a picture - one without wiggly lines.
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I can't stand to wear watches, feels like a noose to me... not to forget the wicked tanlines they leave behind. I don't pay attention to time unless I absolutely gotta be somewhere. I have too many obsessions in my life already, I don't need to obsess over time too.
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Mike Pipes stickerpimp.com Lake Havasu, AZ mike@stickerpimp.com Posts: 8746 | From: Lake Havasu, AZ USA | Registered: Jun 2000
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