Sending pizza to my old house
 

Scott Manning
January 20, 2003 | Comments (3)

pappajohns (4k image)I thought I was so cool last night when I had a small gathering at the new house to watch wrestling on Pay-Per-View.

To add to my coolness, I offered to order pizza. The people said, �Yeah! Do it!�

I pulled out my laptop from under the couch, connected to the Internet via my wireless network I set-up in the new house, and began to order from Papa Johns.

Intrigued, people started asking what I was doing. �Well,� I said, �Ordering pizza online, of course.� In about three minutes, the pizza was on its way. I sat back beaming with pride over my technical slickness and continued watching wrestling.

About twenty minutes passed by before I realized that I had not changed my address with Papa Johns since I moved a week ago. I picked up the phone and quickly called the pizza shop.

Unfortunately, people began inquiring as to what I was doing. Being horrible at lying especially over my own inadequacies, I �fessed up. �I just sent pizza to our old house.�

The wife, the guests, and the pizza lady on the phone all got a good laugh at me.

No easy solution
Microsoft started a mass expedition about three years ago called .NET. One of the many things .NET was destined to fix was the very problem I just faced � changing your personal information with a million companies.

While waiting for Microsoft to offer a full-proof, helpful solution is like waiting for Verizon to set-up DSL, they did come up with one. The only problem is that it requires every company in the world to own even more Microsoft software and sell their soul to Bill Gates.

At least they tried.

Related links:
WWF is fake? So is Lord of the Rings.


  

Comments (3):
1) Posted by: PhilB
January 21, 2003 9:41 PM

Hope you got the pizza while it was still warm *S*. Could you explain a bit about the wireless network for the internet sometime? Equipment needed? Is it through the same service you have your home computers on? Cost? Anything else helpful or useful to someone ignorant of how it works, like myself.
2) Posted by: LOL
February 1, 2003 2:26 AM

the wireless network is easily set up,all you need is minor equipment from best buy,20 minutes of patience infront of your comp,and maybe, maybe a nice cool program called sygate so everyone can share the same speed connection as you to the net
3) Posted by: Bad Mouth
October 25, 2003 4:47 PM

First of all your topic don’t make sense, your like
skipping threw it not giving as much output like an
old TV tube.
.NET is a new technology not only for the web but also for
programs and other applications.
If you try to run a program created with .NET and you don’t
have the .NET framework installed then obviously the dam thing
isn’t going to work.

Anyone can run or even share information with another computer
that has .NET technology as long as they have the .NET frame work
which is free.
And if it took you 20 minutes to realize you sent the pizza to an older
address than obviously you don’t know what your talking about.

If you like to harp on the bill gates issue take a look at your self first
and ask yourself why am I using windows?
Like all you freaks are you like to curse and put down someone while
their back is turned, but when you face them your like a little puppy.
So what if you’re an idiot that buys MS software, don’t complain about
it after you spend so much money.
DON’T buy it period.
See how far you can get in the computer world without MS!
B.M