Refreshingly honest tech support
This amused me. I tried to access gmail, and got this message instead:
- Gmail is temporarily unavailable. Cross your fingers and try again in a few minutes.
All that stuff is just smoke & mirrors, in my opinion. It's like the "door close" button in an elevator — there aren't any wires attached to it; it's there only for the placebo effect.
"Cross your fingers." There's an instruction I understand.
And it worked! I can access my inbox! How 'bout that.
posted by stc @ 10:31 AM
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Yes, Gmail support staff truly take a low-tech and non-geek speak approach to working with their clients. What a refreshing attitude!
(I wonder what they're up to)?
I also like google's "I feel lucky" search button. Yes, they've got a good sense of humor, those Google folks.
Is the door close button on the elevator true?
Oh my.
Thats...
wow.
Heather:
I don't have any inside information about door close buttons on elevators. It's just that I ride an elevator to the 21st floor several times a day at my workplace. It seems to me that the door takes exactly the same amount of time to close whether you push the door close button or not.
And then I noticed that it was probably true of a lot of other elevators, too: you push the button, you wait a noticable interval, then the door closes.
But maybe I'm just being cynical. Which isn't a good attitude during Christmas — mea culpa.
Q
Just popped in to wish you a happy and peaceful Christmas. I hope it's a good one.
Thanks, Mrs. Aginoth. Merry Christmas to you and Mr. A., too.
Q
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