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Published on April 26, 2004 By Teegstar In Sports & Leisure
Howdy, all

Tuesday morning and I'm back at uni for another week. The long weekend is over now and it's business as usual once more. The printer next to me is the current first-place candidate for Technology That Is Both Painfully Slow And Adept In Causing Extreme Frustration And Encouraging Violence.

There's probably a number of possible avenues of wit I could travel down as an offshoot of the above award category but my grey matter is intent on making everything else... grey... today.

Grey.

What a weird word. Just look at it for a second -- weird.
Now say it out loud -- weirder.
Now picture the colour (if indeed it can be called so, and those who studied art at school will remind me that it's actually a shade and not a colour) in your head -- weirdest.

You know what else is weird? Yes, you do. Me. If I'm honest, it's not the printer next to me (which has now finally finished its task) that is causing frustration and encouraging violence, it's just reminding me of the fact that I'm already frustrated and contemplating violence. Against something -- anything! -- for reasons that I can't seem to put into words at the best of times, and certainly not when I really need to.

I don't want to talk about this,

Teegstar

Comments
on Apr 26, 2004
You know what else is weird? Gray.

Seriously, why do we have to have two spellings for it? I'll never know.
on Apr 26, 2004
Bill Gates had the Windows Solution all wrong...

the only windows solution is throwing the computer out the window!!!

Bluedev... thats exactly what i was thinking.

BAM!!!
on Apr 26, 2004
grey -- that's how you spell grey!

gray is the american spelling... muggaz my fellow aussie, i would have thought better of you than that! you're forgiven on the merit of your windows solution.
on Apr 26, 2004
not all Americans spell grey as "gray." In fact, I'm having trouble remembering the last time I saw it that way. I had a friend who's nick was Graytail but she mispelled it on purpose. I tryely believe the only times I've seen the spelling "gray" is when it's miselled by someone who (in typical American fasion) doesnt know or doesn't care that it's wrong. Kinda like our mispellings of "Nite" verses "Night" a suppose. We won't touch "-er" verses "-re" or missing u's here though.

--Syrrus
on Apr 30, 2004
Detroying all the computers sounds pretty violent to me.

Shades of Grey.
on May 02, 2004
For some reason I always want to spell it grey by default, but being here in the US have forced myself to use the "American" spelling. Still looks weird to me.
on May 03, 2004
I didn't realize that grey was the non-American spelling. I've always spelled it grey--I was always taught that the two were interchangable...but that's just my 2 cents.