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Hope For America's Youth (4/1/00)
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What better way to spend a weekend than by enjoying an anecdote from America's heartland? Faithful viewer Barry Hamill, The Exiled King of the Cheeseheads, wrote in to keep us apprised of the latest adventures of Rose, the five-year-old Fabulous Babe mentioned throughout our recent special report on painting Macs:
Sunday, I had to go to work and install a new hub. Rose came along so she could photocopy pages from her favorite books to color.
As we were about to leave-- and Rose was definitely ready to go, the thrill of coloring having faded for the day-- I decided to take a look at my NT servers, inquire as to their health, pamper them a bit. If they knew I was in the building and didn't come to see them, they'd get all pissy and start shutting down services on their own, that sort of thing.
I decided to reboot one-- it's NT, after all, it's as far from five nines as you can get and still call it a server OS-- and lo and behold, it did take abnormally long to shut down. As we were waiting for it, Rose and I had the following conversation:
Rose: When can we go, Dad?
Me: As soon as this computer restarts, sweetheart.
(pause)
Rose: Is it done yet?
Me: No, it's taking longer than I thought it would. It shouldn't be too long now.
(long pause)
Rose: Is it done now?
Me: No, Rose, not yet.
Rose: Dad! You should have just pressed "Apple"-Q!
Me: It's not the same as Mom's computer. It doesn't work the same way.
Rose: (sighing) I wish all computers were like Mom's computer.
Oh, well. I guess she won't be interested in my Sparc5, after all.
You know what they say: out of the mouths of Fabulous Babes...
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