Cornered by Mike Baldwin for February 21, 2019

Gave it the “cold” shoulder.

I was just downloading a popular children’s movie. “Fr..” something.

It’s the computer age old question.

Whatever it was, the tech will find some reason to curl his lip in scorn and sneer at you.

I used to work taking pictures of kids with Santa. The computer (a desktop) was in a cabinet, surrounded by dense foam, with it’s back up against a thick, foam-covered wall. When you opened the cabinet door, you got a blast of hot air and you could hear the fan desperately trying to do it’s job. I told my boss over and over that the computer shouldn’t be closed up like that. Sure enough, one day it over-heated. She called tech support, they sent a guy out with a new computer, and put in the same place as the old one.

The next day my boss told me they found the problem. A ladybug had been lying on the computer’s floor. I think the thing overheated and that poor ladybug died of suffocation.

I was streaming a documentary about Antartica.

Or “can you remember what you were doing right, before it froze?”

Oddly, as I was about to write this comment, Firefox crashed!

Yes. I had my new assistant, Ms. Elsa of Arendelle, come in and watch a cute cat video. She started laughing and snorting all over my screen…

Victim of ice-phishing.

I was streaming “The Day After Tomorrow.” on that movie service.

I turned down the thermostat, I may have overdone it.