The E Teacher: computer humor

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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Thank you Dr, Suess (I mean Mr. Ziegler)

Dr. Seuss explains why computers crash

Theodor Seuss Geisel surrounded by his literary works.

If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is Interrupted at a very last resort,
and the access of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.

If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash,
And the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash,
And your data is corrupted cause the index doesn't hash,
Then your situation's hopeless and your systems gonna crash!

If the label on the cable on the table at your house
says the network is connected to the button on the mouse,
but your packets want to tunnel to another protocol,
that's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall,
and your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss,
till your icons in the windows are as wavy as a souse,
then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang,
'cuz sure as I'm a poet the suckers gonna hang!

When the copy of your floppy's getting sloppy in the disk,
And the macrocode instructions cause unnecessary risk,
Then you'll have to flash the memory and you'll want to RAM your ROM,
Quickly turn off the computer and be sure to tell your Mom!

While found in various internet sources the poem was actually written by Gene Ziegler, not Dr. Seuss and is an abridged and plagiarized version of the original. That said, it is well worth the props no matter the source.
For the full version check out Ziegler's site at http://www.geneziegler.com/clocktower/DrSeuss.html

Thursday, March 31, 2011

A little SIS/LMS/CSV humor

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Disembodied Voice

I called a student today to assist because my emails and IM's were not seeming to get through and I was getting no responses.

Student-Why are you all jumping on me?
Me- all who?
Student-well there is the lady on the emails, the man who keeps IMing me, and now you.
Me-Those were all from me
Student-well would you tell them to stop bothering me so you and I can just talk about it and I'll get to it?
Me-ok so phone works best for you. so how can I help you get started now that we are on the phone.
Student-like I said just get the other two teachers off my back and I will do fine.

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Thursday, January 27, 2011

Racing my students

“Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.”~Brendan Francis Behan

The race is on, the new term is afoot, and I am once again in third place. Student A is on chapter 3 and student B is still not taking my calls. Online has the capacity to excite, but excitement lasts about as long as a google rating for a page without content changes. Constantly we E folk must provide new, more, different stimuli, or we lose our student quarry and must hunt them again.

Other people have a different approach, more of a correspondence course attitude-work is the student's responsibility. I guess I'm just a spoonful of sugar kinda gal. That said, my racing shoes are all laced up, and I am running and running.

Gee I wish I had a magic umbrella.

Friday, January 21, 2011

E Teacher's are also Tech Help for their students

Computer messages I wish would show up for my kids

FINALLY, ERROR MESSAGES EVERYONE CAN UNDERSTAND

Unknown Error:
Windows has encountered an unknown error. The error is unknown because the guy who wrote this part of the code quit a while back and he was like really really smart and the rest of us are not really sure how this works or what to do.
BTW, if your are that guy, please give us a call and let us know what to do.