An overlooked piece of hardware

[orkboss]

"You're always on that bloody computer and you never pay any attention to me"

Familiar speech? If 'her indoors' is giving you grief about the amount of time you spend on the computer why not get a nintendo gameboy. I consider this an essential piece of hardware as it keeps her amused while I am playing about on the computer. Trying to configure a system with the other half nagging is hard work. But give her a gameboy and she shuts up and it might keep her from even thinking of touching your computer when you are not around. I hate unsupervised use.

[Apostle 83]

That is soooooooo 80's. and its not even the 90's anymore. Try a gameboy color!

[Toadman]

I don't think its a gameboy that she wants.

[Dave_H]

I second the Toadman's comment.
Dave

[Brangwen]

Get her a nice laptop/desktop and get her interested. She'll be tweaking her machine in no time and the roles will be reversed. I don't know if that's good or bad!

Brangwen

[Comtech]

Another frequently overlooked piece of hardware is the v******r.
(Edited for taste) http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif
Feel free to delete this if it's TOTALLY unacceptable. I just couldn't resist.

[alpha]

Ok, I don't know about the V*****R comment, but a credit card and a lift to the shopping mall always seems to work.

Cool! On my stupid monitor my asterixes sag in the middle.

[XT]

I, Fortunately have a fiancee {soon to be wife} who loves computers almost as much as I do. Since I met her, She has added memory and a new modem to her system, I showed her how to upgrade and I let her upgrade my second box all by herself. She put in more memory, a second harddrive and swapped a bad floppy cable all by herself. Because of this, what she was afraid of she now loves. She is the first to recommend we stay indors on a cold night to have a game of UT or Quake II. Although I agree with you that it is a nag when a loved one gets on your back when your doing things on the computer, It is your job to try to bring her into your hobby, it is so much more enjoyable when the woman you loves also loves what you do. We need more strong intelligent women into our hobby, it only gives us guys more credit.

My 2 cents....


XT

[RobFM]

A woman like that is hard to find at the best of times. Count yourself very lucky in deed!!! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[deep_sky]

heh...very familiar lines..my boyfriend gets fed up with me when i am on the computer a lot. one time i was trying to restore some bad dlls and had to replace kernel32.dll so i had to go into dos and so forth to fix it. my boyfriend walks over to me and demands " is that computer more interesting than me?!?!?" (he is an art history major, and not real into computers no matter how hard i try to interest him). i am sitting there trying to figure out how to answer him without totally offending him, and i say "well, the computer is predictable in that it is is always in need of fixing, and you are not predictable in how you act or what you say, so you are more interesting." so that got him off my back.
at least i can turn off my computer if i dont want to hear it complain http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

but seriously, while i will not give up my hobby, if my boyfriend wants to spend time with me or go out somewhere, that is fine with me. i leave it up to him to find a hobby or things to do when i need to perform critical maintenance.....i do try to limit my time on the computer though....