Anybody remember Lily Tomlin as Ernestine the telephone operator? Or did I just illustrate how freaking old I am again?
In all seriousness I did just get a whole new computer, which started out, as these things often do, with my asking my fried Dennis Zaki if he could help me speed my old one up a little.
Long story short, that upgrade turned into Dennis and I building a whole new, blazingly fast, computer.
Part way through I expressed some concern that Dennis may have bitten off more than he could chew because we had run into a snag.
"Don't you have any faith in me?" He asked.
"What part of 'I'm and Atheist' don't you get?" I replied.
However Dennis did indeed succeed in putting together a very impressive computer that runs circles around my old one, which was about five years old, and already out of date when I took it out of the box.
So this is actually my way of saying "Thank you Dennis. And yes, NOW I have faith in you."
See how that works?
Thought I was gonna see a hamster on a wheel when I scrolled down, but I love the Lily Tomlin analogy. Of course I remember Ernestine back in the days of "Ma Bell"! "Gracious good afternoon!" Who remembers Edith Ann, as well? Laugh-In will always rule with me.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your new hardware!
Congrats on the fast computer. There is nothing so wonderful as getting there whisper quick.
ReplyDeleteAnd I absolutely loved Ernestine--which dates me too.
Good Morning Mr. G!
ReplyDeleteI well remember Ernestine and YOU are NOT that old.
Happy to hear that you have a new 'puter and that it is "built" and not out of the box.
Scorpie
so that's what Siri looks like.
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Long story short, that upgrade turned into Dennis and I building a whole new, blazingly fast, computer.
ReplyDeleteI believe it should read "into Dennis and me"
Come on Gryphen, you're not that old. I remember Ernestine and I remember Margaret, the operator in my small town who miraculously appeared at the end of the phone when you picked it up - much to my delight as a toddler. Telephone numbers reflected the order in which the telephone had been acquired. Ours was 46.
ReplyDeleteDennis, any time you'd like to visit, my computer and I welcome you with open arms. :)
Don't feel bad.
ReplyDeleteThose of us that remember Ernestine also remember the real newt gingrich, not the reinvented one or the one palin keeps offering up.
We remember his Congressional, speaker and disgraced years.
Nice pic Gryph.
ReplyDeleteI hope you got a 6 core I7 with 16gigs of ram, a 250 gig SSD, and a pair of SLI Geforce GTX 550.
Bill Gates once said if GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.
Congrats on your new computer speed.
ReplyDeleteDoes this mean you will be posting even more great stuff?
I not only remember Lily and "have I reached the party to whom I am speaking?", but I had a job working at an answering service on one of those PBX boards with 100 lines. That was definitesy the 'olden days'.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the monday morning laugh.
I loved Laugh In, Ruth Buzzi and the dirty old man, Ernestine, Hippy Dippy Weatherman! HAHA!! Congrats on the new computer. Now you can surf the interwebs! (There are actually cats in the intertubes!)
ReplyDeleteI wish Mr. Zaki was my friend!
ReplyDeleteOMG, I love this. Thanx. Congrats on the new machine.
ReplyDeleteHey Griff, any advice for NYers who want to visit Alaska later this year for 10 days or 2 weeks? What is on your top-spots list? Thanx again.
Awww - the wonderful days of Rowan & Martin where Lily was great! Arte Johnson was always after Ruth and Goldie Hawn was hillarious!
ReplyDeleteOh, I remember Laugh In! I used to love "Edith Ann" too.
ReplyDeleteHUGE laugh-in fan! Lily, Gladdys,Goldie,Ruth Buzzy, Jo Anne Whorley, and Arte Johnson were a great comedy torupe.
ReplyDeleteAnyone Remeber "Geraldine" and "The Devil Made Me Do IT" Flip Wilson?
Gryph, congrats on the new computer! I know that sense of panic when crazy stuff starts happening and it takes ten minutes to boot up.