Meeting? What meeting?

In "The Rhesus Chart," Charles Stross's main character, Bob, struggles with a bizarre bureaucracy that loves committees. Bob's labels for people on committees:

WOMBAT: a Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time

As the IT network expert, he encounters:

PEBCAK: a Problem that Exists Between Chair and Keyboard

"Rhesus"is set in the UK, but the US has the same idiots.

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The wheel of Mac grinds on

My laptop's fallen behind in the Great Race: Firefox will no longer update itself because of my old OS.

Same with my best friend's laptop, which won't update anything; error message is scary.

Off we go to Mac-O-Rama.

Thence onward to whatever the heck Apple calls the newest  OS.

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Get off my back ... pack!

Back-to-school commercial on TV shows children celebrating their new backpacks.

Their imagination leads the girls to fun ways to use backpacks. The boy uses his the standard, unexciting way.

Or, as male America sees it, the girls fool around, act stupid, and waste time, while the boy gets on with business.

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