So it turns out that non-ferromagnetic materials can exhibit magnetism.
Also it happens that Magneto has control over electromagnetic radiation, in general. That gives him control over electricity, heat, light… Like some coked-out version of Ted Sprague.
Well, I’m having issues with Microsoft Office. For no reason, Bill Gates decided to make Microsoft Office ’07 use a .docx file format rather than an ordinary .doc format. Now, there is no other text-viewing program in the world that reads .docx files. That includes Notepad and Wordpad, the two most basic(and awesome) text readers. It also basically forces everyone to upgrade to MS Office ’07 if they want to read those buggering files their school sends them.
I mean, come on, why add that “x” behind the “doc”? I don’t think the new file extension does anything good. The new file extension applies for everything that is created from any MS Office ’07 program. Excel, Powerpoint… Everything.
Now here’s the issue. I happen to not have MS Office ’07 on my desktop. Instead, I have MS Office ’97. Yeah. That’s ninety-seven. From over ten frickin’ years ago. In fact, that’s where I’m typing this draft right now. Yes, I type out my posts in Word before uploading them. After a disastrous series of events involving an unstable RAM chip, unexpected crashes, internet connection issues, and other bullshit that comes with Broadband, I’ve stopped typing stuff in directly.
Except when I’m too lazy to open Word.
(Yes, I’m that lazy. Sometimes I’m too lazy to put a game into the disk drive when I’m bored, thus making me more bored.)
So anyway, I have both MS Office 97 and Open Office 2.4 on my desktop. Both of them work fine. I can view all the all formats using these two programs. Presentations, Excel graphs, everything. They’re really awesome. However, due to basically everyone at NYP having MS Office ’07 pre-installed in their notebooks, and all the teachers also using the very same program, MS Office ’97 and Open Office have been rendered useless.
When I try to open up any file that has a file extension ending in “x”, all I get is a bunch of weird symbols and squiggles. This, in combination with a number of other problems, has forced me to go through a very annoying, weekly ritual of file transfer and conversion.
It’s almost like transcription and translation. Cool, I’ve just created a really cool analogy for protein synthesis…
Anyway, here’s the thing. My desktop PC can’t read .docx files. My laptop PC can’t connect to the printer because the installation program isn’t compatible with Windows Vista. My lab partner also only uses .docx files(because I don’t have the heart to tell her downgrade just for my sake(also that sounds kinda kinky in some ways(also this is the third set of parentheses inside a set of parentheses!))), so when she emails them to me, I have to download them onto my laptop PC. Here’s a basic rundown of the kind of crap I do…
Joe’s Very Annoying Weekly File Transfer Ritual:
1) Download report from email onto notebook PC
2) Open file, copy-paste everything onto Open Office
3) Save Open Office file onto MP3 player(which doubles as a thumbdrive for me)
4) Turn on desktop PC, reconnect ethernet cable(which was previously sodomising my notebook) force MP3 player to sodomise desktop PC’s USB port, save file onto desktop PC
5) Deal with shitty changes in mathematical symbol formats and alignment
6) Print, hoping that there won’t be any major screw-ups.
Yeah, convenience.
So that’s why I had to go order a copy of Office ’07 from the school. Thankfully, at a very subsidised cost. Still, it’s going to take an ass-long time for my order to get through.
For now, I’ll have to perform that ritual, week after week.
Look, a math joke!
If you understood that... You're a nerd. And also, I love you.
-Joe
Also it happens that Magneto has control over electromagnetic radiation, in general. That gives him control over electricity, heat, light… Like some coked-out version of Ted Sprague.
Well, I’m having issues with Microsoft Office. For no reason, Bill Gates decided to make Microsoft Office ’07 use a .docx file format rather than an ordinary .doc format. Now, there is no other text-viewing program in the world that reads .docx files. That includes Notepad and Wordpad, the two most basic(and awesome) text readers. It also basically forces everyone to upgrade to MS Office ’07 if they want to read those buggering files their school sends them.
I mean, come on, why add that “x” behind the “doc”? I don’t think the new file extension does anything good. The new file extension applies for everything that is created from any MS Office ’07 program. Excel, Powerpoint… Everything.
Now here’s the issue. I happen to not have MS Office ’07 on my desktop. Instead, I have MS Office ’97. Yeah. That’s ninety-seven. From over ten frickin’ years ago. In fact, that’s where I’m typing this draft right now. Yes, I type out my posts in Word before uploading them. After a disastrous series of events involving an unstable RAM chip, unexpected crashes, internet connection issues, and other bullshit that comes with Broadband, I’ve stopped typing stuff in directly.
Except when I’m too lazy to open Word.
(Yes, I’m that lazy. Sometimes I’m too lazy to put a game into the disk drive when I’m bored, thus making me more bored.)
So anyway, I have both MS Office 97 and Open Office 2.4 on my desktop. Both of them work fine. I can view all the all formats using these two programs. Presentations, Excel graphs, everything. They’re really awesome. However, due to basically everyone at NYP having MS Office ’07 pre-installed in their notebooks, and all the teachers also using the very same program, MS Office ’97 and Open Office have been rendered useless.
When I try to open up any file that has a file extension ending in “x”, all I get is a bunch of weird symbols and squiggles. This, in combination with a number of other problems, has forced me to go through a very annoying, weekly ritual of file transfer and conversion.
It’s almost like transcription and translation. Cool, I’ve just created a really cool analogy for protein synthesis…
Anyway, here’s the thing. My desktop PC can’t read .docx files. My laptop PC can’t connect to the printer because the installation program isn’t compatible with Windows Vista. My lab partner also only uses .docx files(because I don’t have the heart to tell her downgrade just for my sake(also that sounds kinda kinky in some ways(also this is the third set of parentheses inside a set of parentheses!))), so when she emails them to me, I have to download them onto my laptop PC. Here’s a basic rundown of the kind of crap I do…
Joe’s Very Annoying Weekly File Transfer Ritual:
1) Download report from email onto notebook PC
2) Open file, copy-paste everything onto Open Office
3) Save Open Office file onto MP3 player(which doubles as a thumbdrive for me)
4) Turn on desktop PC, reconnect ethernet cable(which was previously sodomising my notebook) force MP3 player to sodomise desktop PC’s USB port, save file onto desktop PC
5) Deal with shitty changes in mathematical symbol formats and alignment
6) Print, hoping that there won’t be any major screw-ups.
Yeah, convenience.
So that’s why I had to go order a copy of Office ’07 from the school. Thankfully, at a very subsidised cost. Still, it’s going to take an ass-long time for my order to get through.
For now, I’ll have to perform that ritual, week after week.
Look, a math joke!
If you understood that... You're a nerd. And also, I love you.
-Joe