BlackBolt's Journal: I Told Her My Email Address and Here's What Happened

> Michelle Dandridge <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> Noodles,
> I found your email address. Are you coming for Indian food?
> Mrs. D

Hey Missus Dee,

You must have gotten my email address wrong, because I didn't receive your email. Please try again at the following address:

[e-mail]

Thanks.

Please note:

A) the names and emails have been changed to protect the innocent. If you try to email me at [e-mail], it will bounce back. And my name's not Noodles. I just made that up. I gave her the same email address she was emailing me at, and I was responding from. I am hoping this will cause sufficient confusion to drive her insane.

B) Missus Dee (not her real name but really my mother-in-law) is a new computer user, I recently set her up on the net. I have no idea how she'll respond, but I already feel bad....

...

...

gotcha.

Is tormenting a hapless, kind old mother-in-law newbie more like kicking a cute handicapped puppy into heavy traffic, or like kicking... well, someone really bad into light traffic? I guess the truth, as always, lies somewhere in the middle.

Noodles

[turg]

And my name's not Noodles.

Mine is.

Re:Noodles

[BlackBolt]

Heh! [mit.edu] Lucky guess [club-internet.fr]. What do six billion people have in common?They all love noodles. [noodles.com] Noodles are cool [wvsc.edu]. That last link even hints at an underground noodle black market, or at least some serious p2p noodle swapping that is probably punishable by some stupid law. And what noodling post would be complete without the food of the gods, RAMEN [nissinfoods.com]?

Too bad I'm eating like a caveman [panix.com].

Re:Noodles

[turg]

Actually. I can't eat noodles [celiac.ca], it's just my name [neutel.ca] :-)

Re:Noodles

[BlackBolt]

My cousin Kathy, a major health nut, told me the other day that "wheat is like fiberglass in your intestines". She's been grossing me out on many of my favorite foods, which is one reason I'm a paleolithic now (although her stories about red meat are especially disgusting - don't ever eat hamburger again, bro, buy a roast and have the butcher grind it in front of you).

I don't actually eat any noodles either, and after a while, you lose your carb addiction and don't miss them at all. Although, man, I must a

Re:Noodles

[turg]

Nope that link wasn't from me. While wheat isn't very good for me personally, it's the most basic staple of the human race so I have a hard time believing that people in general should stop eating it.

Re:Noodles

[BlackBolt]

Yeah, I must admit, it's very helpful in general, and like Windows, not likely to disappear any time soon ;-)

The Paleolithic guys I hang out with tell me that mankind were hunter/gatherers, alternately gorging themselves and starving as their hunting skills allowed. When man figured out how to farm and store food, civilization began. We could settle in one place and start thinking beyond how to get food for the next day. And this happened all over the world... I'm not sure of the exact locations, but they

That's EEEEEEVIL!

[bethanie]

If your mother-in-law is anything like the women in my mother's generation, then you're being SO cruel!!

BUT if she's rather clever, sarcastic, and snide, then she may appreciate it when she gets the joke.

Either way, you may be digging your own grave -- because when her self-confidence is further undermined and she turns into a quivering mass of insecurities every time she sits down at her machine, YOUR phone number will be the first she thinks to call!!

In any case -- eeeevillll you are! (I like you alr

Re:That's EEEEEEVIL!

[BlackBolt]

Yeah, my mother-in-law's a saint (literally). But I keep getting phone calls from her like,

"Bolt, I'm encountering gcomlib assembler errors while building libgcc.a! I can't compile gcomlib with the SGI MPI 64bit shmemnam extensions due to some missing DMAX_PT2PTs on my Gentoo nightly build! Do I have to configure GCC and Binutils with the same --prefix/--exec-prefix arguments, or should I resub my GNU linker directly with the default GCC pass options to the assembler?"

Wha? How am I supposed to know? I'm b