A Talk with Techie

His primary language is HTML, he sings the praises of the PC, and he knows every line of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, extended edition. He's a geek. So naturally, when my computer wouldn't work this morning, I called him for some help.

Our conversation went something like this:

Techie Pal: What are the symptoms?
Me: It won't let me log in, it pretends it will and then I try and then it goes back to a white screen and then a blue screen and then...
Techie Pal: Did you say a blue screen?
Me: Yes, a blue screen with white letters scrolling all down it.
Techie Pal: We call that the Blue Screen of Death: B-SOD for short.
...long pause...
Me: "Death" as in total and permanent cessation of all vital functions?
Techie Pal: Yep.

Luckily, the computer was only mostly dead, which, as Miracle Max instructed, means partly alive. And like Max, Techie Pal performed a miracle and the computer is now up and running at full capacity.

Thank goodness, now I can get back to watching Lord of the Rings working.