Kick in the Head

So did you figure out what the problem is yet? If you did then you’re better at deciphering my mom’s  computer terminology than I am. Turns out my mom had made her Firefox Google search field really large and as a result shrunk her location bar down until it was very tiny. Her location bar with the URL is the “top rectangular website wording” which she needed to cut and paste URLs to email to other people.

I was discussing this with a friend and he pointed out that I’ll be the #1 Google search result for “top rectangular website wording” because this combination of words has never existed before on the internet. An amazing thing about language that it can be formed in all sorts of weird combinations that some people would never think of on purpose. George Carlin had some bits like this that started off “Here’s something that’s never been said before [insert thing I won't rewrite here because I want to keep this site mostly family friendly]“

Thankfully it turned out to be a relatively simple question which was how to save a Word document into HTML format. But I think my heart skipped a beat when I heard the question.

I know that most computer tech guys out there are going to be PC users primarily but shouldn’t they know at least anecdotally the eccentricities of a Mac? At least so that they can say that the PC does it better than a Mac or something like that? End of story, my mom got the CD out of the Mac after she turned it off and on again. I could’ve told her to select “restart” but if she can do it and remember it then I’m satisfied.