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View Poll Results: Would a jury hold me responsible for my actions in this case?
No, in fact I'll hold your coat while you smack her 9 69.23%
Yes, dude, wtf? Are you stupid or something? 4 30.77%
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Old 12-22-2009, 08:03 PM   #1
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No Jury Would Convict Me

A few weeks ago my computer had a rather serious contre temps or as we say in my neighborhood, got all fucked up and shit. In the middle of three projects with looming deadlines. After a week of all nighters with about 3-4 hours sleep I re-installed the system and all the software, rebuilt my image databases. etc. etc. and managed to get the projects done only slightly, but acceptably, late.

In the process I managed to name my boot drive D: and my secondary drive where I keep my tunes, C:

No biggie, it worked ok. I also had a small problem with my printer dialogue box overflowing. Again, no biggie, I could live with that.

Fast fwd a week or two and the baby sitter is over, she's 20, a super math genius, scouted by Stanford and the CIA while she was in 10th grade, etc. I casually mention to her the drive letter issue and the dialogue box. (She works about 40hrs/wk tweaking the local HS computers, and is all "I'm going to go work for microsoft..." whatever.)

She says, "No problem, that's an easy fix, take ten minutes."

That was at 4:00pm on Saturday. by 4:30 I no longer had a functioning computer and at 9:00pm she left for the night saying she'd be back in the am to get it all right. Haven't seen her since, which is why she is still walking...

I've spent every waking hour since then re-reinstalling the entire system, all my software, fonts, passwords, everything.

My photo databases with hundreds of hours of work are gone.

I am trying to see if I can resurrect them from my back-up drive, but I have some doubts about that. For some reason the back up drive is very light on files...

I've been taking solace in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado...
...My object all sublime
I shall achieve in time
to let the punishment fit the crime
the punishment fit the crime...

My crime is forgetting that 20 year olds are not rational, responsible, or living in reality.
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Old 12-22-2009, 08:12 PM   #2
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My crime is forgetting that 20 year olds are not rational, responsible, or living in reality.

I was just discussing this very thing with someone today! That was about a family drama something that is rife at Holiday time, drama that is but I digress....Sorry about your computer, my nephew fixes mine he is 28
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Old 12-22-2009, 08:29 PM   #3
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Chain and a few cinder blocks After you take the Black Bag off of her head from the Abduction !!!
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Old 12-22-2009, 09:02 PM   #4
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Your crime is failing to back up your files.

Never trust important files to one hard drive (or even two, in the same location). If it weren't the babysitting "genius," it could've been a fire, lightning strike, or just a simple disk crash.

I use Carbonite. Backs me up and I don't even have to think about it.

It's also nice to have more than one computer, when your career depends upon having one that works.
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Old 12-23-2009, 12:17 AM   #5
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Did you pay her for baby sitting? I mean does she have bills with your fingerprints?
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Old 12-23-2009, 04:20 AM   #6
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a. You're right, no jury would convict you :P
b. What Juni said. Somethign I have singularly failed to learn each and every time my computer has died carrying work with it. (has happened at least twice during my undergrad years, including with my half done dissertation, and again just a few weeks ago with my thesis!)
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Old 12-23-2009, 05:53 AM   #7
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Um, why is a girl genius working 40 hours per week at a high school and moonlighting as a baby sitter?
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Old 12-23-2009, 07:14 AM   #8
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"girl genius" lends itself to all kinds of nerdy, Nancy-Drew type images.
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Old 12-23-2009, 02:41 PM   #9
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Girl Genius.
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Old 12-24-2009, 01:03 AM   #10
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Meanwhile, there's the quote from the old show McCloud: "No jury in the world would convict me of anything worse than discharging a lethal weapon into a public nuisance!"
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Old 12-26-2009, 03:27 PM   #11
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Invite her for supper. Then put soap slivers in her mashed potatos.
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