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Scooter: Your
hard drive looks like it was hit by a tsunami.
Trixie:
'Sue-nahmi'? What's that in English? I don't speak nerdish.
Scooter:
That's not nerdish. "Your root's been compromised' would be nerdish.
Trixie:
Actually, that sounds kind of dirty.
Scooter:
Let me put it this way. Imagine your data's written on alphabet blocks. Lots
and lots of alphabet blocks, stacked up really high, into long skinny walls.
Lots and lots of skinny walls, twisting around in this giant maze.
Trixie:
That makes sense, I guess. In a Sesame Street kind of way.
Scooter: A
very bad monster knocked down all your alphabet blocks.
Trixie:
What?
Scooter:
Just came in, gave them one big kick, so that one wall fell down and hit
another, and that one hit the next one, and that one…
Trixie:
Ok, Ok! I got it!
Scooter:
Yeah, I figured pre-verbal metaphors were more your speed.
Trixie: I
liked it better when you were speaking nerdish.
Scooter:
Anyway, it's no biggie. You did that backup like I told you?
Trixie:
That what?
Scooter:
The backup. The backup copy of your data. Remember, I told you to back it up at
the end of each day?
Trixie:
Right… I wondered what that meant.
Scooter:
What did you think it meant?
Trixie: I
thought you were telling me to put my computer in reverse.
Scooter:
That doesn't make any sense.
Trixie:
See? That's what I thought.
Scooter:
So you didn't back up your data.
Trixie:
You just said it didn't make any sense.
Scooter:
Unh-oh.
Trixie:
What do you think I am, some kind of airhead?
Scooter:
Can I get back to you on that?
Trixie:
What happens now?
Scooter:
Ok. Listen very carefully. You have lost ALL your data. Every letter, every
invoice, every e-mail
Trixie:
Isn't there anything you can do?
Scooter:
Cover my ears.
Trixie:
What? Why?
Scooter:
So that, when you finally understand what I just said, I won't go deaf when you
start to scream.
Trixie:
Don't be - Wait a minute, you mean… Oh my GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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