Couple Bonding Through PC Building

mikemuch writes "When his lovely girlfriend Glenda needed a new PC, Jason Cross, who spends much of the week assembling PCs with the latest gear to test for ExtremeTech, decided he would let her build it herself. She gave him her list of needs, he came up with a part list, and then watched as she did all the screwdriver wielding herself. Despite a DOA hard drive and some mis-connected wires, everyone was smiling when it was all finished. (Slide show here.)"

Re:How is this news?

[Anonymous Coward]

It's news because someone on slashdot finally got a girlfriend. CONGRATS!

Re:How is this news?

[Anonymous Coward]

This is /. Both are true.

Re:Girlfirend my ass...

[nick_davison]

Girlfirend my ass...

OK, I know these things are confusing, your parents were probably embarrassed talking about it and you're a nerd so you didn't figure you'd need to know anyway...

But, when the nice priest tries to "girlfriend" your ass, it's OK to call him a bad man.

Re:How is this news?

[mwvdlee]

It's a geek, and he's got a girlfriend... of course this is major news!

Re:How is this news?

[Anonymous Coward]

Person puts computer together while boyfriend watches. Why is this on the front page of slashdot?

First, a self-professed geek (see author bio), has a girlfriend. This alone deserves several duplicates on slashdot front page. Second, astonishingly, she is not ugly. This would deserve to be on the NYTimes or FoxNews. Third, he manages to combine voyeurism and shiny new hardware - all this documented with color pictures !

I dont beleive this for a second!

[Jackie_Chan_Fan]

Look at his girl! Come on. This fake as can be. Notice the well exposed photos too. Is her Boyfriend an expert at photography too?

HOT CHICK was a dead give away. FAKE.

Re:How is this news?

[Anonymous Coward]

Gee. Isn't it great that slashdot provides encouragement such as this? Now girls don't have to be afraid of putting a PC together! I hope slashdot will provide further encouragement by covering the first girl to attend University or do nuclear physics.

Let me be the first to say...

[Kadin2048]

I'm a girl. I build and rip apart computers all the time. And every time I do, MY girlfriend is always bugging me to let her get in there with the screwdriver! Maybe I should write up a story and take some pictures: "The lesbian geek couple mess with computer innards!" Oooohhh.

Useless without pics.

Re:Today must be a slow news day....

[deltacephei]

It appears to be the first story tagged under "relationships" and the second tagged as "romance." Next up look for "recipes", "ab crunches" and "what he REALLY wants in bed!"

Re:Interesting? Not really.

[Xiroth]

On the other hand, let me be the first to say: please don't. At this stage I really am afraid that it'd be posted.

It's not TRUE love ...

[Anonymous Coward]

He let her install Vista on her shiny new PC! :(

Operating system

[tokul]

Friends don't let friends install Vista.

Re:GAAAAH!!!

[gujo-odori]

My dad always hand-tightens screws on computer cases. Of course, most people need a power screwdriver to get them *out* after he's tightened them, but...

Re:Lunix?

[nonos]

Her name is Glenda, so she runs Plan 9 (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/glenda.html)

Re:How is this news?

[Anonymous Coward]

For those who don't know, here's the wikipedia [wikipedia.org] article.

Re:So What?

[Anonymous Coward]

> Shes going to do this while I play with her Wii.

Giggety giggety.

Re:what a shitty BF though..

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, I can't believe they didn't go with Plan 9.

Re:Windows Experience Index?

[Opportunist]

Well, it sure as hell is better to call it WEI than CPH (crashes-per-hour).

Let Me Get This Straight?

[ryanisflyboy]

Building a computer is the best inter-gender activity this guy came up with? He is a true geek.

Re:How is this news?

[Provocateur]

Let me rephrase that...

It's a geek, and he's got a girlfriend, and she's not pixellated... of course this is major news!

Re:How is this news?

[Chrisje]

Tss.... I mean, I understand the joke, I sure do. But I'm still a bit miffed.

- I'm on /.
- I'm a geek
- I have a girlfriend
- She is good looking and pregnant to boot
- I caused the pregnancy
- To top it off, she's a former HP-UX and Service Guard field technician and account support engineer
- She did VMS maintenance for the Israeli army during the draft
- She is currently an L2 storage software support engineer

Why is this clown on the front page with his better half while I am not? My girlfriend could out-weld pretty much anyone's girlfriend on this forum. Is it because of the photos?

It's just not fair!

Re:Windows Experience Index?

[Gadget_Guy]

If this is how broken the business rules of their software are, I can only imagine how broken the implementation must be.
Microsoft, you're a disgrace.

I agree completely. This shows how vile Microsoft is as a company, by choosing this absurd scale without a nice round number as a maximum. Seriously, decisions like this show how the company should be broken up and have the workers sold into slavery - brothels for the women, while the men can be sent down mines in third world countries.

Forget DRM, this arbitary scale of the Windows Experience Index is what will really kill off the operating system.

It is so obvious that the scale should have had a maximum of 10, with the current level of computers sitting at around 1.5. And in many years to come when computer hardware has progressed enough to surpass 10, they should make it constantly play a looped voice saying "DOES NOT COMPUTE" while emitting smoke from the hard drive. This is the only sensible solution.

Re:in other news

[Maelwryth]

"MOV HerStuff, YourPlace"

More like

MOV DX,AH

(yes, I know I lost 8 bits)

Re:How is this news?

[joss]

- I have a girlfriend
- She is good looking and pregnant to boot
- I caused the pregnancy

You know, some people would consider getting married in the circumstances...

Re:1400 $ - isn't that a bit expensive?

[Anonymous Coward]

65 ? Now, isn't that funny. I mugged a grandma and stole her PC with the same specs. Only cost me 10 for the knife I used to carve my mugging club.

Re:How is this news?

[SomeoneGotMyNick]

Modded +1, Touche'

Re:How is this news?

[darthnoodles]

I will not be lured into the naive and stupidly romantic gesture of telling everyone this will be "forever".

I'll bet you're AWESOME at pillow-talk.

Re:How is this news?

[elrous0]

In other breaking news, Slahshdot user SmaugRulz28 reports that his kitty is a very cute kitty...yesss he is...yesss he isss.

Re:How is this news?

[greginnj]

- I have a girlfriend
- She is good looking and pregnant to boot
- I caused the pregnancy

We're going to wait for Maury to announce the DNA test results just the same, thanks...

Re:How is this news?

[Bill, Shooter of Bul]

I think you misspelled "Touchy". And also I think someone switched the "-" key for the "+".

ExtremeTech

[Steauengeglase]

So buying from ExtremeTech is supposed to get me laid or something?

Re:How is this news?

[Bluesman]

"The moral of the story for all you geeks is: expect women to like you; do not be afraid to challenge them; if you aren't decisive, then fake it; expect them to yield to your boldness; and learn how to dance, because few things are more indicative of a man's confidence than his willingness to make a fool of himself on the dance floor."

Screw that, I'm going to have an operation and become a businesswoman.

Re:GAAAAH!!!

[Zantetsuken]

Ah, so *that's* why your last name is Norris!

Re:How is this news?

[Anonymous Coward]

There is one "race", the human race.

I can't believe you even said that! Don't you realize you are marginalizing the other races?!?

What about these:

100 meter race
500 meter race
the marathon

You need to be more sensitive!

Re:How is this news?

[Anonymous Coward]

but then they unhappily remain shackled to each other simply to serve the interests of an abstract conception.

A child is an abstract conception?