This goes out to all of my technologically-gifted friends, called into active duty by their less technologically-gifted friends, family, strangers-who-think-you-look-geeky.

They even have it on a shirt .

Lifehacker Articles for handling the situation practically.
How to Fix Your Family’s Computer So the Rest of the Year is Easy
Troubleshoot someone’s computer remotely
How Can I Get Out of Doing All of My Family’s Tech Repair?

And a bit more humour

The Family Tech Support Meme

Or you can just show up wearing this :

Or this :

Whilst carrying this :

And if you absolutely have to fix someone’s p.o.s. computer, just think of this:

If gore and abject terror aren’t to your taste-if you only need a murky atmosphere and a castle to get you in the spooky mood, then here are a few films perfect for October.

Haunted Honeymoon is a classic. Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner, Dom Deluise and several others are members of a radio show called Manhattan Mystery Theatre. Since Wilder and Radner became engaged, Wilder has developed a stutter brought on by fear of matrimony after his mother’s death at her second marriage. A stutter and uncontrollable laughing or crying is a career killer for a radio actor who has finally caught a break.

But! A psychiatrist has a plan-to scare the bejeezus out of Wilder. Overloading the circuits, as it were. The couple is going to Wilder’s family home to meet everyone at the weekend and the psychiatrist plans to use the scary-ass atmosphere to ‘fix’ his problem.

Simultaneously, Aunt Kate-the matriarch of the family-has changed her will to benefit Wilder. This is supposed to be a secret, but of course someone finds out. Both of Wilder’s brothers need money desperately and have excellent motif for killing him and the women in their lives do, as well… how much of the creepiness is the psychiatrist trying to help and how much is someone trying to off the poor schlub in order to get his money?

Though the entire movie is great fun, this is my favourite part:

This was my first exposure to the concept of sound effects-you get to see how radio technicians work-and it holds up remarkably well for something I found enormously entertaining when I was eight. This one is good for the entire family.

Fun Facts: The woman who plays the wife of the magician, Jo Ross, played Camilla in a TV mini-series about Charles and Diana that was made in 1982.

Haunted Honeymoon was filmed at Knebworth House. Knebworth? Really? Look at this place:

‘Knebworth’ is the name of the spotty kid who got wedgied every day until he went to university, not the physical manifestation of ‘I have money and I’m staying right here’.

Disney-Mickey Mouse. Haunted House.

Night on Bald Mountain from Fantasia. [skip to 1.18]

My YouTube Playlists

French and Saunders: Bergman Days

That Mitchell and Webb Sound: Welcome to Hufflepuff

‘All I can do is urge you to look on the bright side. At least you’re not in Slytherin. Another curious decision on the part of the school, there. To dedicate an entire house to those of the children in its care who are evil. Surely a recipe for trouble…’

Dot Dot Dot
A flash based on a voice track about a review (of another flash)

A Day in the Life of a Hangover (Director’s Cut)

Weird Al: Stop Forwarding that Crap To Me

Weird Al: White and Nerdy

Liz Lemon: The Early Years

Brute Force Doesn’t Always Work

‘NO! They’re running… NOOOOOOOO’

Neil Gaiman and Adam Savage Dorkiness

And this is what Neil Gaiman was referring to:

When Kathy Griffin Met Michele Bachmann

BBC America Advert

I’m a Climate Scientist: NSFW

Jim Henson Gets Told

College Humour: Tim Burton’s Secret Formula

Pretty much every video in the Gentlemen’s Rant series is hilarious, but these are my favourites:

Homophobia:

College:

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