Why I named my compy “Veronica”
by V.E. on November 18th, 2005
filed under entertainment, fyi, ladyamedeus, personal
While setting up my compy, Louis was helping me and I asked him what I should name her. We talked for a while, and then I tried to tell him about a funny commercial (which is below) and he didn’t get it, but then I was like, “Okay, that’s my compy’s name: Veronica. That’s precious.”
This is a commercial for Bacardi Rum featuring the Bacardi and Cola guys. “Totally Busted” ad spot is set in a penthouse party. B&C are talking to two fine young ladies when they are approached by a ditzy but gorgeous strawberry blonde with a plunging neckline.
Girl: Hey, Barcardi Guy. Cola.
Cola: Oh, hey…Ahhh??
Girl: Don’t you remember my name?
Bacardi: Sure we do…Anne? Karen?
Cola: Erin? Sarah? Kimberly?
Bacardi: Julie? Mindy? Laticia?
Cola: Pearl? Veronica? Tammy?
Girl: [slow on the uptake] Veronica. Yeah. You *do* remember. You guys look hot!
Bacardi: Yeah.
Singers: “Bacardi & Cola. They get the job done!”
The actual video can be found here.
I just had THE worst computer experience EVER.
by V.E. on November 18th, 2005
filed under ladyamedeus, personal, school, thoughts
I wanted to transfer the important files from Alcarinqua to Veronica, right? So here’s how it went. Mind you, I got Veronica and set her up LAST Friday. I just got my files onto her TODAY.
1. I can’t have both compies hooked up the F&M network at the same time cause that’s cheating and stealing or something. SO, I can’t just hook one up and instant message myself all the files on the other one.
2. All is not lost! I have friends with computers, and I’ll just move all the stuff to one of theirs. SO, Louis graciously lends me his Mac and off my files go to his compy. Since neither of us know how to do that in a reasonable amount of time, Pedro helps us.
3. Everything’s great for a while. I get Veronica all booted up and take all the crap off of her (ie: “Get AOL for 6 months FREE!” and a trial edition of WordPerfect) and then download the stuff I actually WANT. Okay, so now I need my files back from IseekYoda, Louis’ computer.
4. Unfortunately for me, Louis has a life and actually uses his compy for stuff, and that means I don’t have access to it for a long time. When I finally DO rope him and IseekYoda in, we discover that sending the files via AIM (since we don’t have Pedro to help us do it the faster way at this point) to Veronica will take TEN HOURS to complete and he has places to be and isn’t willing to let IseekYoda out of his sight, even though I have no roommate and will lock the door and windows and everything. *sigh*
5. Louis says he’ll burn me a DVD of my files and then I’ll have them and everything will be happy and joyful. After some altercations involving his lucky Yoda figurine (don’t ask), I get the DVD. HUZZAH!
6. I futz around for a while and then stick the DVD in. The drive reads the disk, knows how much space is taken up and that I can’t write over what is already on it, BUT it does not see the files themselves. CRAP and more CRAP. I mess around to see if I can get the files to show, but no such luck.
7. I rope in Yager to help me and he brings over his laptop to see what’s up. After putting the DVD into his computer’s drive (his compy has no name *sadness*) and it reads, he informs me that files burned on disks using a Mac (which IseekYoda is) means that PCs (read: Windows XP) won’t recognize them, even if the PC recognizes the disk itself. Great, just great.
8. So we once again try the file transfer through AIM, but Yager has a life too, and he needs his compy for class, so letting it sit in my room transferring for 10 hours is out of the question.
9. Yager suggests I do this transfer thing while I’m a work. SOOO, I create a new screen name–just for this purpose–and set the name’s preference to receive files (namely, MY files) from another compy (the one at work) automatically. OKAY…. so fast forward to while I’m at work.
10. I put the DVD into the only computer at work that has a DVD drive and transfer the files from the disk to the desktop. YAY. It’s finally coming together. BUT, the computers at work didn’t have AIM, so I proceed to download AIM on the compy which I’m using.
11. Turns out, I can’t download anything because I’m not logged into the Admin’s username, SOOO I delete the newly transferred files from the desktop, sign out, sign in to Admin, RE-transfer the files from the disk to the Admin desktop, and download AIM so I can transfer the files to my Mac-hating computer.
12. OKAY, so I sign on and send an IM to Veronica. All’s well thus far. I then try to send the files from the work compy to her (which, remember, I set up to accept transfers automatically). She doesn’t accept. WTF?!?
13. Yager (who works where I work and happened to be at work at the same time) then tells me that it’s possible that AIM won’t automatically accept transfers no matter WHAT it’s set on IF the compy is idle. Veronica is idle. DAMN IT.
14. I go ALL the way back to my room (across campus) to make it UN-idle (thus rendering the automatically accepting thing completely and utterly useless) and FINALLY, all my files transfer.
15. GODS, it was TERRIBLE. And, if you’ve been keeping track, my PC/Mac fiasco included four people (Louis, Pedro, Yager, and myself), two distant locations, and FIVE separate computers (Alcarinqua, Veronica, IseekYoda, Yager’s unnamed compy, and the work computer).
NOW, I just have to make sure I can OPEN the files that were FINALLY transferred to Veronica so I can go on with my life. *falls down dead*
