Internet for Dummies, Wednesday 12/20, 3rd Period

[cheerfulgoth.livejournal.com]

Abby had moved the desks in the computer lab around so there was a clear space in the middle of the room. She was standing there, bouncing slightly and holding an air horn.

"Welcome to our final class! You guys have been awesome and I really didn't feel like writing a final test so I came up with the internet olympics. You're going to be split up into teams and compete against each other for snazzy prizes." Abby waved an hand over a table piled with electronic goodies, NCIS hats and bags and of course, Caf-Pow.

"So grab team members and get ready for the first event, the logging-on relay. First team to successfully log online wins!"

[ooc: Threads up! Play!]

Comments

Sign In

[cheerfulgoth.livejournal.com]

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Re: Sign In

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

Jude Lizowski

Logging On Relay

[cheerfulgoth.livejournal.com]

[ooc: It'd be too hard to make up teams, so just play with whoever is around. Report your fastest logon time.]

Re: Logging On Relay

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

Jamie booted up AOL and tried to log in.

And waited.

And waited.

And waited.

Re: Logging On Relay

[the-right-ray.livejournal.com]

Ray tried logging on. It looked like he succeeded and then the computer crashed and decided it had to download updates.

So, Ray waited. A full two minutes later, he finally logged on.

Re: Logging On Relay

[greenmagebriar.livejournal.com]

After five minutes of hitting random buttons, getting disconected, and just generally having a miserable time, Briar managed to log on.

Re: Logging On Relay

[notajar]

Door takes one look at the AOL logon screen, opens her mouth, shuts her mouth, writes "I WOULD RATHER LOSE THAN LOG INTO AOL" on a sheet of paper, and hands it over to Abby.

"My logon time is forever," she says.

Shot-put Search

[cheerfulgoth.livejournal.com]

"Next event is about aim. Use search engines to find me a picture of a pinto exploding." Abby grinned. "It's not only about fastest time but least amount of porn found."

Re: Shot-put Search

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

".35 seconds and no porn (http://www.agonybooth.com/mitchell/exploding_car.jpg)!"

Re: Shot-put Search

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

Jamie attempted to do the search and clicked on the wrong link.

20 seconds later his computer exploded with pop-ups of men and women doing... stuff. Lots of stuff. Stuff that should not be mentioned in public by decent human beings.

Jamie? He only finds a picture of someone smashing a pinto bean after five minutes.

"Does this count?"

Re: Shot-put Search

[chasingangela]

"Does a screen shot from a video game count?" Angela asked. "It only took .13 seconds."

Re: Shot-put Search

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

"0.4 seconds and -- I had no *idea* these were so dangerous. (http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/1977/09/dowie.html)"

Re: Shot-put Search

[the-right-ray.livejournal.com]

Ray sucked at this particular topic and, while he found plenty of information on the Pinto, he couldn't find a picture of one being blown up. He found lots of articles on Lee Iacocca though!

Re: Shot-put Search

[greenmagebriar.livejournal.com]

Briar? Gave Jamie a run for his money on the amount of porn found. Except he might have not been that disappointed about it.

Re: Shot-put Search

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

"Got one, and no dirty pictures in sight," Mac said, pointing to her search results (http://alltheweb.com/search?cat=img&cs=iso88591&q=exploding+pinto&rys=0&itag=crv&_sb_lang=pref).

Re: Shot-put Search

[notajar]

Door's already found the Google Safesearch feature, thank you. "40 seconds. Except then I spent five more minutes trying to see just what sort of porn people would label as 'exploding pinto."

Re: Shot-put Search

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

Five minutes later, Kawalsky still hadn't found the exploding pinto. He was distracted, okay?

Gymnastics

[cheerfulgoth.livejournal.com]

"Now we move onto something more flexible. Use your chatting skills to meet someone online. You'll get technical points for your quickness and artistic points for the quality of your pickup lines."

[ooc: You can either have the conversations yourself or chat with another student]

Re: Gymnastics

[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

Buffy cracked her knuckles and logged on to her dating profile thingy. There was a chat thingy here somewhere surely... Aha!

Cheergirl has entered the room

Re: Gymnastics

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

Evie felt certain this part would be a disaster.

Egyptiandoll has logged on.

Re: Gymnastics

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

Mac used the tried and tested 'close your eyes and point' method to find one to enter.

Just because it's that kind of day, it's a Bitterwoman fanchat. Wouldn't you know it.

justlikeq has signed on.

Re: Gymnastics

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

kawalskyiskeen has entered the room.

kawalskyiskeen: Hey. Can I buy you a drink?
aolmanscaresme111: haha ok.
kawalskyiskeen: [///] it's a stripey can
aolmanscaresme111: kewl. a/s/l


At that point, Kawalsky pushed himself back from the computer a little. "Professor Abby, the person I'm chatting with just threw the three evil letters at me."

Triathlon

[cheerfulgoth.livejournal.com]

"Alright, the final competition is the hardest." Abby moved to show two lines on the floor in tape. "You need to carry a laptop from this line to that line while playing a game of minesweeper and drinking Caf-Pow."

"Just in case some of you aren't coordinated, I've provided loaner laptops."

Re: Triathlon

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

"Um, Professor Abby?" Jude waved with a crutch.

Get your prizes/grades

[cheerfulgoth.livejournal.com]

"You guys totally rock!" Abby said from the prize table. "Winners get NCIS laptop bags and the non-winners get NCIS hats. Everyone gets Caf-Pow's and cool USB trees (http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/8c58/)."

[ooc: Unless you've got a reason why you shouldn't have one, Abby will give you an A.]

Re: Get your prizes/grades

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"Can I have one?"
"Can I have one?"
"Can I have one?"
"Can I have one?"

OOC

[cheerfulgoth.livejournal.com]

You guys are seriously an awesome bunch of people! You made this class so much fun!

*smushes you all*

Re: OOC

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

*glomps* Jude and I agree that you rock.