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Business 102: Friday, Period 3, Class 6
Jim had sent a handwavey e-mail to his class to meet in the computer lab today. "Hey, guys. Just to let you know, I am feeling better today. Nobody's running any risk of catching anything," Jim said when class started. He paused. "Except for knowledge. Maybe."
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Jim shook his head. "Nope. Not if I'm doing this right."
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"Continuing the tradition of jumping all around the schedule in the syllabus in any order I want, let's go straight to a class I like to call 'Machines Hate You.' In any office, you're probably going to be surrounded by machines. You'll be working on a computer. You'll be making copies. You'll be sending faxes. You'll be answering phones. And then you'll be getting angry because any and all of those things will stop working right."
"This is probably going to happen most often with your computer. Chances are, somebody in the office is eventually going to download something nasty and put it onto the server. Or, even better, your computer just stops working for reasons you'll never be able to figure out. It's not a question of if, it's a question of when and what you were working on at the time."
"But when you get to copiers, printers, and faxes, there are usually two problems that can really get you. First is having to change toner. Depending on what kind of machine it is, that can be a pain. You probably left a piece of tape somewhere you shouldn't have or the powder toner is just a mess and you end up walking around all day needing a shower and a change of clothes. But the real pain is the paper jam. We all saw the movie last week. We know what can happenNSFW due to language and man on machine violence if you let paper jams get to you. It's not pretty. It could end in stealing and destroying office property."
"So, what's the best way to prove that machines hate you? By giving you links to flash games. Of course. This is the other kind of hate. This is the kind of hate that will keep you busy and make you hate the stupid things for addicting you. I've sent all of you an e-mail with some links, including a few of my favorites. There's Circle the Cat, where you have to outsmart a pretend cat, which you probably won't do too often. There's a recent classic that's probably on your phones, Bejeweled 2, which will just waste your time. But then there's possibly the worst game in the world, Don't Shoot the Puppy."
"There are plenty of other games that will make you and your computer hate each other, and if you know any, feel free to share it with the class!"
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Jim shook his head. "Nope. Not if I'm doing this right."
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"Continuing the tradition of jumping all around the schedule in the syllabus in any order I want, let's go straight to a class I like to call 'Machines Hate You.' In any office, you're probably going to be surrounded by machines. You'll be working on a computer. You'll be making copies. You'll be sending faxes. You'll be answering phones. And then you'll be getting angry because any and all of those things will stop working right."
"This is probably going to happen most often with your computer. Chances are, somebody in the office is eventually going to download something nasty and put it onto the server. Or, even better, your computer just stops working for reasons you'll never be able to figure out. It's not a question of if, it's a question of when and what you were working on at the time."
"But when you get to copiers, printers, and faxes, there are usually two problems that can really get you. First is having to change toner. Depending on what kind of machine it is, that can be a pain. You probably left a piece of tape somewhere you shouldn't have or the powder toner is just a mess and you end up walking around all day needing a shower and a change of clothes. But the real pain is the paper jam. We all saw the movie last week. We know what can happen
"So, what's the best way to prove that machines hate you? By giving you links to flash games. Of course. This is the other kind of hate. This is the kind of hate that will keep you busy and make you hate the stupid things for addicting you. I've sent all of you an e-mail with some links, including a few of my favorites. There's Circle the Cat, where you have to outsmart a pretend cat, which you probably won't do too often. There's a recent classic that's probably on your phones, Bejeweled 2, which will just waste your time. But then there's possibly the worst game in the world, Don't Shoot the Puppy."
"There are plenty of other games that will make you and your computer hate each other, and if you know any, feel free to share it with the class!"
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Then he gave links to flash games, and you'd be doing so well until then, Jim. So well.
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He pushed three buttons and managed to disconnect the internet, flip the words on the screen upside down and then turn the entire thing off.
"Blood and ashes."
Mat was an IT guy's worst nightmare.
Discussion [Class 6]
And then, 35 minutes into class, panic as the timers Jim put on the outlets to all of the computers go off, turning off every computer suddenly. Somebody had probably just gotten past level 12 in the puppy game, too.
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Besides, she'd played the outsmart the cat game once and had been horrible at it.
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And the battery ran out. Nice timing, that.
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