from the vault: geeks on parade

He tried overclocking his toaster once too
She asks: did it work?
She says: i was amazed… for a two-slice toaster i can now toast an entire loaf in half the time.
He says: well, sorta
She says: all at once.
He exclaims: wow!
She nods.
She says: i was impressed with the improvement.
He wonders if your toaster had genuine Intel parts.
She says: yes. but it runs linux. =)
His ancient toaster runs DOS.
She says: ahh.
She says: you really should upgrade.
He says: whenever toast comes up burned it asks, “abort, retry, fail?”
She laughs.
He was thinking of getting a screensaver… y’know… the one where flying computers fly across your toaster case.
She says: that’d be really classy.
He says: there’s only so much you can do when your bus is only 2 slots wide though.
She nods.
He asks: what sorta peripherals do you have on yours?
She says: i hear those bagel toasters with the wider slots have better throughput.
He makes a note of that.
She says: well, the microwave is daisychained to it, so that my condiments are ready for application upon toasting completion.
He says: way cool.
She nods.
He says: i’m trying to decide whether it’s worth the few extra bucks to go for the true-color video card with 1600×1200 resolution, or just settle with 256 colors at 1024×768.
She says: i’m thinking of setting a crisco router to have all the toasters in the building running through mine.
He exclaims: a crisco 10-base-T port in your room! instant plug ‘n’ grease!
She says: when it comes to toast, you shouldn’t scrimp on resolution. the last thing you want is pale toast.
She says: actually, i was thinking of going 100-base-t.
He says: this is true. but then again, maybe i ought to spring for a DVD drive too. Games are getting so realistic these days.
He says: hayull. you tha man! so to speak.
She says: with a backbone of 1000-base-t.
She says: i mean, you can’t be waiting on toast ‘casue of network backlog. that’s just wrong.
He says: folks, this chick is a shortening bandwith monster. I mean *monster*.
She laughs.
She bows.
He says: think big, yeah, think big.