sunday paper

Male or Female

as you are aware, ships have long been charaterized as being female (eg "steady as she goes", or "she's listing to starboard, captain!").
recently, a group of computer scientists (all males) announced that computers should also be referred to as being female. their reasons for drawing this conclusion follow:

1 no one but the Creator understands their internal logic
2 the native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else
3 the message "bad command or file name" is about as informative as, "if you don't know why i'm mad at you, then i'm certainly not going to tell you"
4 even your smallest mistakes are stroed in long-term memory for later retrieval

however, another group of computer scientists (all female) thought that computers should be referred to as if they were male. their reasons follow:

1 they have a lot of data, but they are still clueless
2 they are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they are the problem
3 as soon as you commit to one you realize that, if you had waited a little longer, you could have obtained a better model
4 in order to get their attention, you have to turn them on

-from Cebu Daily News Sunday issue-

can't write anything. im supposed to study now but i cant concentrate. wohoo tomorrow im taking the CEL. hooo!! yeah hooo!! oh no