The Lost Symbol

At the very outset, I’d like to thank Jason for making me a part of this website. He’s been kind in inviting me to this personal group of bloggers so thank you Jason…thanks for counting me in.

Since this is my first post, I am going to keep it sweet & simple. I don’t want people subscribing to my beliefs in such early stages J (haha I saw that eyebrow raising)

I am a part of an elite (in our own ways) technology driven team & I take pride in it. I am “still picking up” ropes but wouldn’t consider myself as a noobie. I am no G.I.Joe & I certainly have no connection with Area 51. I do the simple job of keeping people off-the-area known as “Commonly-Operated-Machine-Practically-Used-for-Trade-Education-Research”. Now don’t get me wrong & I don’t mean any offence but what will you call this;

Me: IT

Caller: I have a problem

Me: How can I help?

Caller: I am not able to connect to the internet can you have a look?

Me: Sure, which computer?

Caller: How do I tell?

Me: Is there a tag or sticker on the CPU?

Caller: What’s a CPU?

Me: The black box thing!!

Caller: I don’t see one.

Me: well OK, apart from the monitor what all do you see?

Caller: keyboard & mouse, that’s it.

Me: ** ahem ** OK, can you press ctrl+alt+f1 on the keyboard

Caller: Where???

Me: On the keyboard, you just told me you have a keyboard.

Caller: Oh yeah…so what am I pressing?

Me: ctrl+alt+f1…all keys together or you can hold the ctrl+alt key & then hit f1

Caller: done, nothing happened

Me: Can you try again?

Caller: nothing

Me: Which key’s are you pressing?

Caller: Ctrl+Alt+F+1

Me: it’s the F1 key, top row on the keyboard & not f+1

Caller: thanks for telling me that mate, I know what you are talking about & I am a computer literate person, I am telling you nothing is happening

Me: ** I wish I could say RTFM for keyboard ** Ok, just one more time if you can pleeaaaaaaaaasssssssssseeeeeeeeeee (I cant stress enough) look at the top row on your keyboard & tell me what it says?

Caller: Aha..there you go…I found the F1 key

(Yes sir, you sure did – you are like that zombie in Resident Evil who knew how to use a cell phone but couldn’t do the plastic object maze matching)

Now I know that it’s not funny to make fun of people. Perhaps they are good at something else & I am not proclaiming to be a wizard – but why shout your qualifications at me when you certainly don’t have the intellect to distinguish between Jack & Jill & Jack Daniels.