----- Original Message ----- From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf at siconic.comTo: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.orgSent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 7:01 PM Subject: Re: OT, but funny put PocketPC listing... Festival ---- http://www.vintage.org mputers ] http://marketplace.vintage.org ] http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?id=1800023786&d=hv&cf=info

Rumor has it that Vintage Computer Festival may have mentioned these words: You got Google, don't you? Don't tell me that I have to give you the google link, eh? Shhheeeeeeeshhhh!!! ;-) http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Peter+Gibbons OK, there's a race car driver named Peter Gibbons, there's a character off of the movie "Office Space" (which I never saw, movie trailers looked *mucho lame* to me), and a teacher in the Department of Computer Sciences at the Univerisity of Auckland in New Zealand. I'm guessing it's the 3rd guy, as he's almost marginally ontopic. Tho how HP got ahold of his iPaq is anyone's guess! ;-) [[ Note to all: I didn't get it either; still don't; and not that worried if I ever do... I just thought this would be a good opportunity to pick on Sellam WRT him picking on others asking questions before googling... ;-) ]] Laterz, "Merch" -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers zmerch at 30below.com Hi! I am a .signature virus. Copy me into your .signature to join in!

Brad Parker wrote: "I deal with the god damn customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?" -- Jim Leonard (trixter at oldskool.org) http://www.oldskool.org/ Want to help an ambitious games project? http://www.mobygames.com/ Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/

1- I'd love to see a scan of that HP brochure if possible =) 2- My sig. other has banned me from viewing my copy of Office Space on DVD when working for call centers. I have a bad habit of getting the urge to do some of the things in the movie since many of the places I've worked are exactly if not worse than the movie. ...Especially the damned TPS Report thing. Forgot to file 1 small insignificant item once that no one in the company looks at and has no real weight to the company financials (one of those "I've got to do it to show validation" documents) and got 3 supervisors, 2 immediate managers, 3 department managers, 1 division manager and 7-8 coworkers bitching to me about it. Aah, the life of a computer geek gone to hell... 3- Damnit, where is my precious RED SWINGLINE Stapler?! You know, I like it better than the staplers we use right now... those Bostich ones jam up and they aren't as pretty and they are kind of rough on your hand when you use them and... Hehehe, -John Boffemmyer IV At 09:39 PM 6/2/2005, you wrote: