I spent the last hour writing this:


For this example, let’s think of a computer as being like a deli. Your input, ordering your food, is mostly done by talking at the counter. You can also call in an order, fax it, sometimes even email it, but most people prefer to stick to the simpler method that is right there. This is like typing on your keyboard and mouse. When you input your order, it goes into the computer, which from the outside just looks like a rectangular box.

Then your order is processed: Inside of this, everything is arranged in a certain way which allows it to perform thousands of different operations, many similar, by designating certain areas and workspaces for different tasks. Basic utilities are built into the operating system, such as a sink, tables, garbage cans, windows, and other things that nearly anyone using this space would need. More specific utilities, the most popular even from the same maker, made to fit right in, are added based on the needs of this business - a meat slicer, an oven for baking bread, a deep fryer for the fries and wings. Nearly every restaurant has an oven, and nearly every business has Microsoft Office, and most people have both of those in their own kitchens. Homes rarely have deep fryers, nor do they have QuickBooks, but most businesses do - homes often have something simpler and more convenient for them, simpler ways of managing their money or a pan and oil, which do very similar things but better tailored to their needs.

Then you get the output from the kitchen, sometimes wrapped up to go, sometimes on a plate to eat there, whichever you choose. Your computer’s most common outputs are a monitor or a printer, which in effect can display the same information. Your keyboard and monitor are probably right next to each other so you have easy access to the two ends of the function, input and output, while there is also a pickup window (or a printer) where you can grab things to go. You provide the input and you receive the output in nearly the same place, and whatever you say dictates what is done in the processing area, the computer or kitchen.

Computers have their own way of doing things based on how they were programmed, much like chefs have their standard way of making things unless specifically dictated. Each computer and each restaurant will have different procedures. If you simply as for a burger and fries, one place might give you two small beef patties cooked on a griddle with onions and cheddar cheese on a soft bun (with thin-cut fries), while another will give you a big grilled turkey burger on toasted bread with pepper jack cheese and mustard (and thick steak fries). Chain restaurants like Subway and McDonalds will do things the same way at different locations, much like a computer running Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 with Microsoft Office Professional 2007 will be exactly the same by default. You need to know which one you are working with, because while you can get the same sandwich at Subway or Quiznos, you are going to need to be specific. You can always get what you want if you go to the right place, and you can usually get something very close even at a different restaurant, or with a different operating system.

Work Safe mode is really fucking sweet now, except when the other instructor asks me what site I'm using to get information about Microsoft products.

it's clearly a fucking restaurant. you make it sound more complicated than it has to be. good instructors are able to get the point across with few words. if you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

I'm teaching to a dumb certification test, I had to fit a bunch of things in there.

Actually I'm teaching it to a bunch of uneducated urban teenagers so I should probably use hippie as my test subject.

If you wanted to lump hippie in with a single, derogatory racial term, you should say "coloreds".

Turns out my attention span only lasts four hours. Work day is seven hours.

Time to take a certification test in using Microsoft Word.

I have a deep fryer at home. Cost me like $50 at K-Mart and is SO much safer/easier to manage than heating up oil in a pan with a thermometer and praying it doesn't splatter all over you or what to do with the oil when you're done (canola oil is expensive so I re-use mine a few times if it's clearly too filthy).

lol

I know how computers work and this confused the shit out of me. I even worked at a deli once (this experience did clearly help with deciphering whatever code you're using here).

This post has been edited by Duped on Fri - Oct 14 2011 - 23:49:15

i honestly thought you were going to tell me your work had weird rules

That wall of text wont teach retarded kids anything

If it was spoken to them andd more concise then maybe

it will teach them to clearly read

i'm giving you advice on how to do your job properly and you give me lip? i have degrees in psychology, sociology and linguistics. i know what people think when trying to comprehend your bullshit. where is your degree? oh, right.

i won't share my pearls of wisdom with you if you're going to act like a brat. just remember to use bullet points. when you fail that teaching test don't come looking for my shoulder to cry on.

thug life bro, thug life