It's so nice to have my Computer back!

[xi_o_teaz]

It is so very nice to have my computer back. Many ThankFul grAttitudes to you who have helped me during this time of Cyber-trials. It's been my Intent to become much more comfortable with Computers, and I've made a conscious choice to take my Cyber education seriously. There are still a couple final things I'm going to do to finish fixing my

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Techgnosis

[mesila]

It's definitely Techgnosis you'll want to tune in to. (The Erik Davis book of this name, by the way, had not yet been written when I first discovered Techgnoisis, which was around 1988...the days of my VERY first exposure to computers, back when even a simple monochrome Mac used to terrify me.)

Techgnosis, like Metrogeist, the Spirit of the City (for me, San Francisco, but every city has its own Metrogeist) and Pharmakoepois, the patron goddess of mind altering chemistry, is one of those godforms that appreciates lots and lots of exaltation and attention. Some entities just don't care whether you notice them or not, but in my experience, these three in particular do. Techgnosis in particular.

People take these wonderful machines and their networks for granted. When they go awry often times they become angry at them. This only pisses Techgnosis off, and is highly unlikely to help.

I find it unusually effective to find a small object, consecrate it to Techgnosis and glue it or otherwise attach it to the center/top of the monitor (mine is a little glass pyramid with a spiral vortexissimal shape inside it) or if it is a laptop, it should be a flat glyph sticker on the front opening panel. When your machine goes wibbly on ya, some simple breathing exercises followed by a few grandiose-sounding and very complimentary terms of endearment directed at Techgnosis while staring at this item will more often than not cause the machine - sometimes completely illogically, it will seem - to work again.

Or, if not, to at least divulge to you what's wrong and the best path to take towards unfucking it up.

Re: Techgnosis

[xi_o_teaz]

Techgnosis, like Metrogeist, the Spirit of the City (for me, San Francisco, but every city has its own Metrogeist) and Pharmakoepois, the patron goddess of mind altering chemistry, is one of those godforms that appreciates lots and lots of exaltation and attention.

Aren't most Entities (godforms, spirits, children...) like that? Little Attention Whores, the lot of 'em.

People take these wonderful machines and their networks for granted. When they go awry often times they become angry at them. This only pisses Techgnosis off, and is highly unlikely to help.

Indeed. Being full of Thanks tends to keep many of Life's problems at bay (no computer pun intended).

I find it unusually effective to find a small object, consecrate it to Techgnosis and glue it or otherwise attach it to the center/top of the monitor (mine is a little glass pyramid with a spiral vortexissimal shape inside it) or if it is a laptop, it should be a flat glyph sticker on the front opening panel. When your machine goes wibbly on ya, some simple breathing exercises followed by a few grandiose-sounding and very complimentary terms of endearment directed at Techgnosis while staring at this item will more often than not cause the machine - sometimes completely illogically, it will seem - to work again.

Thank you so much for the detailed description, that was most helpful! I've a small smoky quartz pyramid I got last year in Sedona, AZ that would fit perfectly on top of my monitor. Come to think of it, I like the idea of Pyramid on top of my Computer.

Thanks, monde!