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05 January 2009

IAtionary: Loading Your Personal Settings

Load-ing Your Per-son-al Set-tings [lohd-ing-yohr-per-sohn-uhl-SET-tingz] v.

1. Giving the required percentage of my time to performing secret government calculations
2. Scanning for any trace of personalization you have tried to install on me, including but not limited to screen savers, wallpapers, games, and Firefox as the default browser, and taking whatever action is necessary and proper necessary to remove them
3. Deciding that starting now would deprive you of some quality waiting time, and that everything happening too quickly would take the value out of life

Language of Origin: Microsoft (Windows dialect)

Like I said, the computers at IA are known to be pretty slow. Oddly, most of the time they take to boot up and login is usually spent on a screen that says "Loading Your Personal Settings." The thing is, we're not allowed to have any personal settings. This let me to question what it could actually be doing during this time...the theories I came up with are above.

1 comment:

winnernerd said...

On the left, I especially like the quotes about Spanish for not liking German and, "A test a day keeps the students away!"



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