Summer Fun in the Summer Sun...and Blood Sacrifice
Okay I swear to god summer brings out the weird at UCLA. I don't know if it's the abundance of foreign and extension non-UCLA students or if it's just the Los Angeleno heat but I've been more confused this quarter than I have in months.
That was the first time I've ever heard anyone use learn instead of teach. Except for those grammar exercises when we were kids.
Today Ricardo and Sal (boss people) tasked me with hooking up some of the computers with scanners with dual monitor set-ups. Lots of wiggling under the tables (in a skirt, no less) later, and I had them all hooked up and plugged in--but the drivers failed to work. Ugh. Problem soon resolved, though. Users are now happily typing away. Floridian Baby Neil is happy because he can now program on one screen and read stuff on the other.
Unfortunately, plugging those things in also involved spelunking in often used and rarely vacuumed areas of CLICC desk space. In my adventures I discovered:
A few days ago Fonz was on the phone trying to explain to users that Adobe Reader only lets you read things, not type things. And Charley says that the other day someone called into CLICC and asked us to enroll them in classes for them because they couldn't figure out how to use the URSA enrollment page. This past weekend, a user who was a grammaw called Sarah a " naive piglet."
I view CLICC users as I do midi-chlorians. In Star Wars, midi-chlorians are symbiotes. Without them, things in the Star Wars universe could not exist. Just like how if there were no users, CLICC could not exist, because UCLA would close us down. Unfortunately George Lucas's explanation for the Force is really stupid. Just like CLICC users. However, I accept his stupid midi-chlorian explanation so I might as well accept the stupidity of users.
- As I sit happily in front of Kerckhoff eating my shaved ice
Fobber 1: Hello.
Fobber 2: Haii.
Me: ::gulp:: eh. Hello.
Fobber 1: We ah look for te STOODENT BORED?
Me: Uh. What? Oh, USAC offices are located in Kerckhoff Hall. Do you mean the Undergraduate Student Advisory Council?
Fobber 2: We want look for stoodent informaxion bored.
Me: uh.
Fobber 1: Wanna find roommate and learn us Engrish.
Me: Uh...There's a bulletin board on the A level of the Student Union.
Fobber 2: Where?
Me: Uh. Go down the stairs and make a right. (I hope I was right.)
That was the first time I've ever heard anyone use learn instead of teach. Except for those grammar exercises when we were kids.
Today Ricardo and Sal (boss people) tasked me with hooking up some of the computers with scanners with dual monitor set-ups. Lots of wiggling under the tables (in a skirt, no less) later, and I had them all hooked up and plugged in--but the drivers failed to work. Ugh. Problem soon resolved, though. Users are now happily typing away. Floridian Baby Neil is happy because he can now program on one screen and read stuff on the other.
Unfortunately, plugging those things in also involved spelunking in often used and rarely vacuumed areas of CLICC desk space. In my adventures I discovered:
- Lots of Gum
- Used Orthodontic Rubber Band (for people with braces to put on their teeth)
- A Toenail
A few days ago Fonz was on the phone trying to explain to users that Adobe Reader only lets you read things, not type things. And Charley says that the other day someone called into CLICC and asked us to enroll them in classes for them because they couldn't figure out how to use the URSA enrollment page. This past weekend, a user who was a grammaw called Sarah a " naive piglet."
- User: I thought you guys had Mac Book Pros coming in.
Me: We do have brand new Mac Book Pros. They are currently upstairs being formatted.
User: Then why did you give me this old PC?
Me: Well, the new laptops aren't ready to be checked out yet.
User: Why not?
Me: Because we still have to scan and inventory them and format them and stuff.
User: So you don't have them?
Me: We have them but they're upstairs being formatted.
User: Well if you have them then why won't you give me one?
I view CLICC users as I do midi-chlorians. In Star Wars, midi-chlorians are symbiotes. Without them, things in the Star Wars universe could not exist. Just like how if there were no users, CLICC could not exist, because UCLA would close us down. Unfortunately George Lucas's explanation for the Force is really stupid. Just like CLICC users. However, I accept his stupid midi-chlorian explanation so I might as well accept the stupidity of users.