TECH'S KNOW IT ALL

Unless, that is, one enjoys the company of the intellectually impaired.

I figured as much, since so many people on Saturday Night Live were from the Great White North, including producer Lorne Michaels.

MOST of our TV stations are US networks, perhaps how I am able to see the differences in Canadian news and US news. The pieces from identical interviw/film segments that are cut out of US reports etc.

I now get 60 channels, most below 31 are a complete farce. Above 31m there are maybe 6 that are SOMETIMES worth watching.

But I remember being all excited when my dad bought a converter you'd screw on to the back of the TV and tune in (2 or 3) channels above 13 using the UHF dial.

In England at on etime there was BBC2 and BBC2 in black and white. Seeing colour and getting 13+ channels nearly stopped my heart. Then I went to a friends house and he had pong on his tv, I got one for Christmas IN COLOUR (clue AND pink paddles!)! Now that was a day I will never forget...unfotunately.:)

But yes, we generally see mroe US TV than Canadian, which is actually improving nowdays.

I've heard this a few times on one program or another, but I'm sure its pure Aussie!!:

'Rack off, you dag!'

THAT sends shivers down my spine!!

(nnot directed at anyway btw, just testing my Aussie vocab) ;)

..thats a bit arse. No disrespect etc etc, but I've been in this game for 8 years or more. I took a few years out to go back to Uni and the majority of my lecturers in highly specialised and technical fields were female. Even where I work now, senior technical? Female.

And why were they now lecturing? Well, most put it down to prefering a nice office and a lecture theatre to a server room or padding round under fake floors or getting lost in cables.

But then, this is just one (male) persons experience. One thing I'm mighty aware of on this forum is that experience counts as nothing.....compared to FACT!

some techs are a bit like comic-store guy from the Simpsons. And in that respect, yes, they do think they know it all, and will happily put someone down to do a bit of self ego inflating.

But this forums a weird one. Compared to other forums that I use, this is the most lively. I guess what with the nature of technology, there's always something new to discuss.

But in fact Vs opinion, clearly on this place some people are just after a rise and to see some hardcore cat and pigeon action. There's one person I think is majorly guilty of this, though I wont name names other than to say there is a syndrome of the same name that effects the bodys ability to grow.

Anyway, there's more to life the technical knowledge. And if thats a shock to you, the worlds in a big pile of crap.

Not as if I'm out to prove correct the old saying; "Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." A lot of women are leaving IT because -

A: it has little to no future for us - you think you guys are in trouble with the job market?

B: we're getting paid to go to school for science and math fields not related to IT

C: you guys are giving us ulcers at very young ages with all the bickering and top-dogging

Yes, it is fun and passes time for you in some macho sort of way, but if we wanted to hear that all day we'd go home; to children and husbands.

=)

I thought Ozzy was married to Sharon. Was Harriet his first wife?

I'd marry Sharon in a heartbeat. That lady simply cannot be taken down, what a trooper!

Between her and Ozzy they certainly are an unstiooiable force, not that anyone would try to stop it.

That's not where my alias stems form though. Too bad, I'd love to have a women like that on my side, certainly wouldn't want her as an opponent!