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THX 1138 (The George Lucas Director's Cut)
By Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley, Maggie McOmie, Ian Wolfe, Marshall Efron, Sid Haig, John Pearce, Irene Forrest, Gary Alan Marsh, John Seaton, Eugene I. Stillman, Raymond Walsh, Mark Lawhead, Robert Feero, Johnny Weissmuller Jr., Claudette Bessing, Susan Baldwin, James Wheaton, Henry Jacobs
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Working a lot now at UBC IT Helpdesk. It's been approximately 6 months since I've started this desk job...I must say, for $15 per hour, this job is pretty easy. People call in about everything. I mean EVERYTHING. I can't help and rant about a few things:
-People applying to the university have a lot of parents calling in for them. These parents call in for many different things such as, "My son/daughter doesn't know how to sign up for an account. Can you help me get one for him/her?" Usually I have great urges to tell them, "Maybe you should get your own son/daughter to do this themselves." But I cave, and I help them through it.
-I've found that, to quote another Helpdesker, "common sense is not at all that common". I've had people calling in to ask me definitions of words. What am I, a DICTIONARY!?
-People come to me for help, and they get extremely aggressive. Why? I think it's because they feel self-conscious about their inability to deal with computers. They shout at me, and they do not have inner peace. Shame on them.
-"I am writing from Idaho and I want to buy more minutes.....for my cellphone." For fun, we should've kept her on the line and tell her that she has money already in her account. This is a university IT helpdesk...not Cingular, not Verizon, and certainly not AT&T.
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| In my long-time research into why guys are so much less chatty than
girls, I present to you some helpful tips in the art of chatting with
guys:
1) Girls.
A very obvious but often overlooked fact. Find the right girl to talk
about, and you will open up a guy who was once a under-cooked clam.
2) Cars.
Motor on away with cars. Aston Martins, Toyotas, Hondas, G35s, and so
on...talk about non-American cars and you will be always in tune with
getting the highest performance ratio between you talking and the other
guy talking.*
3) Gadgets.
Similar to talking about cars. GPS, PDA, CPU, OSX, DVD...you get the
idea. Gadgets rule a guy's life. Most guys can't live with out at
least some sort of toy that governs an activity or action.*
4) Money.
This can be broken down into two categories: first, how to MAKE money;
second, how to get the best DEAL. You can go on and on with this.
Explore the world of Redflagdeals or FatWallet with your chatting buddy.
5) Girls.
Yes I mentioned this in number 1. Can't stress this topic more. But
if the clam doesn't want to open up, you just need to cook it more!
So next time you find a very quiet individual who you need to talk to
more (or would like to find out more about), give these few topics a
try!
*note: use these items with care; they should be thought of as topics to gain access to other more "inaccessible" topics.
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| There are always things that a guy should carry around.
According to an old friend of mine, his theory goes that "if a guy ever rises up to the occasion for providing assistance to a female friend, he will be greatly rewarded".
Anyways, continuing along that line of thought, I have always thought it wise to carry an umbrella.
Not any old umbrella, but a big, black (or navy blue, whatever tickles your fancy) curved handle umbrella that simply goes "fuh-whump" when you open it up. Imagine, a fine Italian crafted handle, brimmed with high-tech fabrics that repel nature's worst nightmare in Vancouver (rain is HORRENDOUS here). Strong enough to stand up to strong-armed gusts of wind, yet delicate enough to let a man shelter his female companion.
It is simply, a definition of man who flaunts his ability to utilize tools. And dare I say it to be a symbol of masculinity.
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| Want to get something done? There are three ways:
1. Get someone else to do it.
2. Leave it till the last minute.
3. Forbid kids to do it.
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