Here’s a note to spammers who send out those emails that promise to give you a prize if you click to their site, show you your credit score, or earn you millions of dollars without even trying…blah blah blah… You might want to consider the art of the “Spell Check” button. I don’t pretend to tell you how to do your job, because let’s face it. It must take a lot of work to generate a ga-zillion email addresses and send out your gibberish.
HOWEVER…and again this is just a suggestion…you might want to make sure it doesn’t say something like this.
CONGRATIONS!!! TOYOTA INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
Congrations. Is that Congragulations? Congregations? Confrontation? Constipation? Oh, there’s so much fun I can have with dictionary.com and what they did to that poor word. Congratulations spammers…you made me giggle.
Okay, as I tried to get my post in for the day, I was thoroughly enjoying sharing some linky love and giving thanks to the lovely bloggers that stopped by to help me.
I was actually finally having a blog post that didn’t involve the categories of “HUH?” and “Challenges”.
Then…well just look at the font! It was HUGE!! The font got progressively HUMONGOUS!!
I have tried to fix it many times. I must have gone in and deleted some silly code that was associated with the text because I couldn’t move the dang embedded pic to where I wanted it.
::sigh::
Just when I think I’m making progress…I take one step forward and 12 steps back.
Wrong 12-step program, I know. But is it? Blogging is an addiction, but not one I can do correctly I suppose.
When I went to my sister’s place last week, I was very excited because I knew there would be a night where we would all be sitting around with our respective laptops. I could ask questions about things, and we could share funny other things. It’s a geek-challenged person’s dream to be able to hang out with her own little IT department.
Well, when my BIL directed me to a YouTube video I realized there was something missing. My speaker had a big X over it. It said that I had no sound system program thing in the laptop.
Zero volume control??? Really? It was there when I left my house? It’s not like it’s like my car keys or something, where I could just mis-place it. What the heck? Why am I feeling like the technology gods are mocking me??
My BIL looked at it and couldn’t figure it out. HUH?!? I don’t know that I have ever stumped him before.
So…sure enough…when I got home on Friday the speaker was back to normal.
Of course NOW I can’t find that YouTube video he wanted me to watch.
Bummer!! All I know, is I rarely use the sound in my laptop but when I didn’t have it…it was missed.
Now I need to learn where to chain it up the next time we go on a playdate together.
As I visited some blogs tonight, dropping my Entrecard, I stumbled onto Double X Geeks who had a Geek test on her site. It asked, “What kind of Geek are you?” Well I thought that would be a cool quiz to take. This anti-geek is going to find out what her style is.
Well that test said I was a Chic Geek. That’s all fine and good, but then it started talking about some things I didn’t understand.
::sigh::
Then I went to one of my old staple sights, Blogthings. They typically have basic fun quizes that can be pretty funny. Except tonight. Tonight I searched their system to see if they had anything that showed a quiz to test my geeky-ness. They had questions like:
Sometimes I have a tendency to read too fast through things. I know this is a problem.
But this week, I am having heck of a time reading these Captcha things. If it’s not here, then it’s the Blogger Captchas that are getting me. It’s crazy. On some of your blogs if I don’t have it by the 3rd try I’m afraid I swear profusely sigh and have to give up.
Really…look at some of these…
Note to self:must master the insert pic into middle of post without making it look misplaced, unclear, and awkward.
Anyway, those captchas are tough to read. Last night, on my own blog, I had one for $123,843.26. Really? Are they asking about my dream salary, or are they trying to let me leave a comment?
So if you see that I’ve stopped by, but didn’t necessarily leave a comment, then know that I’ve probably been driven to drink by your Captcha comments.
Dear Nice People Who Offer to Clean Up Grandy’s Websites;
I would like to apologize to all of you who send me offers to improve my banner / website / icon / etc., all in exchange for a link to your webpage. As much as I am truly offended at the fact that you apparently think my websites suck big donkey privates appreciative of your concern about the well-being of the performance of my sites, I must respectfully decline your requests.
You see, for those of you who have followed any part of my blog at Functional Shmunctional, you will know that I NEVER quite often don’t understand what people are saying when they use technical terms. Actually, that is what really instigated this site. I am truly the “Girly Anti-Geek” in every sense of the title. I really do figure things out the hard way.
That being said, when you send me a solicitation to clean things up, make my page more productive, minimize my bounce rate, and other stuff like that, I am being honest when I say this…
I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT!!!!!!!!!
So, as a result of my complete ignorance, I am not comfortable allowing anyone to come in and play with my stuff. I am quite certain you have nothing but the best intentions for my site because you have taken the time to reach out to me, however, when I need services I go to my community of bloggers that I work with and let them help me.
The Grandy family is big on text messaging. Hubby is often on the road, and sometimes I need to just get him a reminder because he might be sleeping early in the evening and I don’t want to wake him. Or our son will send a text message when he gets home from school, in case I’m in a meeting.
Other than that, we also use the text messaging for just plain fun. We chat with eachother, and with friends. It sometimes saves time, and minutes on the talk plan. Technology is a good thing for Grandy when it comes to text messaging.
Some of the things Hubby sends to his friends though, or gets from his friends, UGH! Let me just say that one day his friend sent me a picture message (it was sort of animated) that involved Casper the “extra”-friendly ghost, while I was in a meeting and it somehow went off as if I was viewing it, and I didn’t mean to. Did I mention there was sound attached?
Ewww.
I don’t know where some of these text message things come from. I’m not even sure how they get on phones.
Well, today I witnessed what happens when you combine one of those supersticious emails (You must forward this on in 10 seconds or risk losing ALL YOUR MONEY) and the text message. It said:
1 Kings 8:23: A blessing is coming to you in the form of money. Don’t ask questions just forward to eight people and trust GOD.
To which I simply replied with:
When did GOD start sending text messages? Not everyone gets that plan.
