#tech nightmares

[naonicblog2]

Cruise recalls all self-driving cars after grisly accident and California ban

All 950 of the General Motors subsidiary’s autonomous cars will be taken off roads for a software update

[mbrainspaz]

every time I sell an old iphone I try so hard to erase everything and make it a properly sellable phone and every time I eff up and get a message from the poor guy I sold it to asking for my password

😭

it's only happened twice but darn. I wish iphones were easier to steal at this point. They're hardly worth anything anyway

[deadcatwithaflamethrower]

Nightmarish Moments of Tech Support Gore

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

This is the Mate @drougnor‘s fault. Again.

Two moments of explanation, one for my bafflement and one for his:

1) That puffy pillow-looking thing is a battery.

2) That pink slimer vengeance is parafin wax.

[the-voice-of-night-vale]

First dress: the light board operator is sick

The director: can you run lights?

Second dress: the soundboard operator is sick

The director: can you run lights again as I switch everyone in the booth around?

Me, the stage manager who has never had a dry tech class: *screams*

[unadulteratedkat]

I needed a teddy bear doctor today.

So apparently I react very badly to strobe lights... as in, I almost dropped our Bat Boy because I was about two seconds from fainting almost instantly.

If I had gotten more sleep last night, I don't think it would have made me as fucking wretched as it did. I ended up not being able to continue in rehearsal, so I basically passed out on the green room couch all throughout the rest of rehearsal, trying not to wake up vomiting my stomach contents all over the floor.

I also felt.. a little lost. See, I am blessed enough to have a woman in my life who I consider to be my best friend. The only thing about this person is that she doesn't do... comfort very well. As in, she not one to comfort others easily. And tonight... I think I needed my best friend to give me a shoulder to cry on about how embarrassing this was... about how terrible and how much of a burden on the entire cast and crew I felt all of a sudden... about everything.

And she just couldn't do it.

I still love her dearly... but goddammit. In that moment, I needed a teddy bear doctor to give me the prescribed moose hug I clearly needed.