It's time to retire the mom test

Wow, I just installed the new VirtualBox... the interface is so easy, even dinotrac can use it! :)

>the interface is so easy, even dinotrac can use it! :)

Holy crap! Does that mean that chihuahuas are finally able to use computers, too?

> Does that mean that chihuahuas are finally able to use computers, too?

Yo quiero Ubuntu!

¡Yo tambien! Su LOLgato tambien.

Why won't people just stay in the little boxes we give them?

>Why won't people just stay in the little boxes we give them?

Some of us get a little too wide as we get older.

Uh oh -- Did I just make inappropriate references to age and weight?

I think I'll just go shoot myself.

Wait!! That would be a symptom of mental illness, I think.

That's inappropriate, too, isn't it?

Man!! er, Thing!!

I give up.

oh dino, you're so far wrong that even a doddering old grandpa can see it.

Haw. I slay me.

Seriously, it's starting to look like the whole "so easy a (whatever) can do it" is just asking for trouble. And no, telling people to get over it is not a solution.

>And no, telling people to get over it is not a solution.

Well, of course not. Some people never get over anything.

Fortunately, I can live with that.

The reason I hope to convince my Mom to write up her experience as a new Linux user is not because of age at all. I bought her her first Macbook in 1993, then her Windows laptop in 2003 "because all my friends have Windows and this way we can trade software and files", so now I'm really just interested in how her usage and expectations change.

As one Old Fart said to an uppity kid, "No, we didn't have them, that's why we invented them!"

"Some of us get a little too wide as we get older." No, same weight I was when I finished high school.

"...even a doddering old grandpa can see it." Now you got it! That's me, but I forgot what I was supposed to see.

>No, same weight I was when I finished high school.

Jealous. I'm nearly twice my high school weight. Sigh.

Quoting:No, same weight I was when I finished high school.

I'm not jealous. I was skinny in H.S. The extra padding I have now makes winters much more bearable.

>The extra padding I have now makes winters much more bearable.

That much is true. If only I had a summer place in the Yukon.

I still have the same body I had in high school. I value it so highly that I've added a thick protective layer to prevent damage. :)

Heh... that's almost as bad as "I'm in shape... round is a shape, isn't it?"

Round is the perfect shape. Ask any mathematician ;)

An architect would argue that a triangle is the perfect shape.

>An architect would argue that a triangle is the perfect shape.

Only a thin one.

Hmm, this discussion seems to be going round and round to no purpose. Is there any point? :)

>round and round

Ouch.

> Is there any point?

Three of them, on the triangle.

> Ouch.

Careful, those moot points are sharp.