I have a teacher. This teacher is a complete computer illiterate. The teacher will remain nameless in case she or any of her co-workers read this, but here go three stories that have me snickering whenever I think about them:

1) A friend was taking notes on his Palm Pilot in class. Okay, no big deal, it's not like he was playing games on it. However, she was not to be fooled! Since the Palm Pilot has buttons on it and is generally around the same size as a GameBoy, she instantly assumed he was playing games and told him to put that "game thing" (her words) away.

2) Unfortunately, at my high school we just upgraded our computers, so a lot of the teachers who have never had computers before are getting the hand-me-down P2-233Mhz machines. Unfortunately, there are many idiots who (wrongly) assume these computers to be about as powerful as a Cray, and therefore go and install all manner of useless trash on the computer. Anyway, I was Ctrl+Alt+Del-ing some of the stuff (half the stuff doesn't have a "quit" option) and the computer was consistently crashing every time. After three tries, the teacher overheard me and said "isn't it the network that's doing that?" Yeah... sure.

3) This is a short and sweet one: For some odd reason, even with toner cartridge replacements, the class printer that she's stuck with doesn't print very well down the centre of the page. Somehow she has the notion in her head that this is a virus causing it, and any attempts to dissuade her from the idea- including showing her the virus scanner software on the computer- are to no avail. In her mind, it HAS to be a virus!

*sigh*

- R. "MooglyGuy" H.