Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 18, 2024

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    lalapalooza Premium Member 11 months ago

    Try setting it down and then picking it up again.

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    rmremail  11 months ago

    My job is providing tech support to scientists (our company sells scientific equipment).

    I have a sign on my wall that say:The Laws of Physics: They’re not just recommendations.

    What prompted that was an engineer asking if our pump could drive a fluid with the viscosity of honey through a foot long tube with the diameter of a human hair.

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    enigmamz  11 months ago

    Turn it off, wait 15 seconds, then turn it back on.

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    suv2000  11 months ago

    It told me once they needed to do a HARD RESET on my terminalI asked him if he ment to turn it off and then back because we already did that twice on he got real quiet

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    Bilan  11 months ago

    All he has to do is turn his back to the sabertooth that’s charging at him.

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    Imagine  11 months ago

    If it’s not the system, it’s the training. Or lack thereof.

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    Imagine  11 months ago

    Somebody didn’t read the manual.

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    John Lustig (Last Kiss) creator 11 months ago

    Just turn the bow off and back on and then it’ll work fine.

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    Pickled Pete  11 months ago

    Did that once, trying it with a golf ball and a tree… dammed near took my eye out..

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    cdward  11 months ago

    First, unplug yourself. (Then maybe get a bandage)

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    Imagine  11 months ago

    Push your nose, your ear and your big toe at the same time. That should do it.

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    dot-the-I  11 months ago

    Remindful of the kidhood rejoinder when being singled out for a put-down: “You’re pointing one at me and three back at yourself.”

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    Count Olaf Premium Member 11 months ago

    He could always take it back to Kohls and get a refund from Amazon.

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    Walrus Gumbo Premium Member 11 months ago

    Operator error.

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    fredd13  11 months ago

    Put it down and pick it up again? That might just work…

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    franki_g  11 months ago

    more like booty, as in swift kick in it to turn him around

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    dflak  11 months ago

    I love it when you call your service provider and the recording says, “You can solve your internet problems by logging into our website.”

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    dflak  11 months ago

    At one time I did field service. I worked on a project that supported the U. S. Army and I made tent calls. I got to one place where the issue was that the terminal was not working. When I asked where I could plug it in, the response was “oops.” I wrote that one off as operator error.

    Another time I got a call to fix the light pen. I took a paper towel and wiped about a 1/8 inch of dust off the screen and told them, ‘If you can’t see the screen, the odds are the light pen can’t either."

    I was the database guru, I’m not a hardware expert. However, I did travel with two memory boards and a motherboard in my backpack.

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    WorkshopGardener Premium Member 11 months ago

    Did you try reading the safety and user’s manual?

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    sandpiper  11 months ago

    This particular trial weeds out those who are not technologically proficient. It’s called the Darwin Theory.

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    uniquename  11 months ago

    I once worked with a bug system that doubled as our customer service incident tracker. When a user submitted an incident that turned out to be their mistake, the status on it was changed to “UBD – User Brain Damage”. I don’t know if anyone ever mentioned that status to our customers.

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    dagupster  11 months ago

    A primordial CEBKAC error

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    strictures  11 months ago

    That’s how Don the Con would hold a bow

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    cbedda  11 months ago

    Sounds like a cool place to work. Most of the engineers I know are brilliant, grounded and totally interested in doing things that have not happened --yet. Gives me hope.

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    Mediatech  11 months ago

    User Error, replace user and try again.

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    Amra Leo  11 months ago

    That’s gonna leave a mark…

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    mindjob  11 months ago

    Looks more like the suicide prevention hotline

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    Cozmik Cowboy  11 months ago

    My coder/tech support friends call that a “RTFM problem”.

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    mwksix  11 months ago

    “Archery Support, how may I be helping you this darkness!?”

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    mistercatworks  11 months ago

    These people would be in less danger standing near the target.

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    Mike Baldwin creator 11 months ago

    First you have to learn about String theory.

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    ComicsBinger Premium Member 11 months ago

    Ok. I know it’s a comic but how is that even possible???

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    sperry532  11 months ago

    Have you tried taking the string off, then putting it back on again?

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    Outrageous.Tom  11 months ago

    At least once during the Obama administration, one of his advisors recommended that the Law of Gravity be repealed in order to facilitate some scheme they were contemplating.

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    eb110americana  11 months ago

    If the arrow is in the wrong place, try moving the cursor. (“#$@%*ing arrows!”)

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    [Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce]  11 months ago

    Green Arrow is filing a libel suit as we speak

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    Curiosity Premium Member 11 months ago

    Looks like a cassic case of “operator error” to me!

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    Richard S Russell Premium Member 11 months ago

    Eventually this species developed the art of proficiency simulation: Shoot an arrow at the barn, then draw the bullseye around it.

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    57-Don  11 months ago

    Try turning it off and on

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    Digital Frog  11 months ago

    ID Ten T error

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    keenanthelibrarian  11 months ago

    First learn how the system works; that seems to be the problem …

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    Jason Allen  11 months ago

    Rebooting? No, no, no. You want to turn it off completely, count to ten, and then turn it back on again.

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    Teto85 Premium Member 11 months ago

    RTFM

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    lindz.coop Premium Member 11 months ago

    Oooooopsie!!

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    cherns Premium Member 11 months ago

    Could be a useful feature, as it was for Matt Helm in the Dean Martin movie The Silencers

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    cherns Premium Member 11 months ago

    https://youtu.Be/pQHX-SjgQvQ

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    bakana  11 months ago

    Barney Fife’s ancestor.

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