> Anyway, the ctrl-alt-del thing reminded me of a
>Geeky Dave story -- this one all the worse
>because
> it wasn't accidental, it was quite on purpose.
>
> The car Dave had before the one he presently
>has had unique dashboard decor. He had popped
>the ctrl, alt, and del keys off an old keyboard
>and glued them on the dashboard, side by side.
>We used to joke about how, if he ever crashed
>the car, he could just reboot it.

Actually, that's the car I have now. I know it's gone to pot and looks a lot worse than when I first got it, but it's still the same car, and still has the ctrl-alt-delete keys superglued to the dash ;-)

To further compound the geekiness, I have a sticker on the inside of the windshield that has the Netscape logo on it.

Sheesh. I'm far geekier than I thought.

Another "geeky Dave" story: I was driving down the road one time, and tried to roll down my power window. It didn't work. I tried the passenger side window--that didn't work either. So, like a good system administrator, I pulled over to the side of the road and "rebooted" the car (shut it off and started it up again.) Of course, since it was a blown fuse and not a runaway process hogging the CPU, "rebooting" didn't help.