That's what Janet would say whenever her computer would act up. Usually followed by "Arrrrrggh!!! Aaaaaaaaaaaarrrrgh!! Stupid, STUPID computer!!!" To be honest, she never cursed all that well, even when she tried. Very, very occasionally, she'd use the f-word, but her cuteness made it a bit unconvincing. She'd dart her eyes left and right, pursing her lips together in what I always thought of as her Squashed Muppet Face. Think Kermit when he got mad.
But make no mistake, you didn't want to be too close when she was "Arggh-ing". Best just to go into the other room and play with the dog while she sorted things out.
I'm pretty sure I heard her say this yesterday when Blogger managed to delete the entire blog about half a day after I started it. After getting no response from customer service (another arggh there), I was able to find the posts by using the Google reader on my feed. The links were broken, but I was able to readthe posts, re-register the URL and reconstruct the blog that way.
Janet always did have a love hate relationship with computers. She was programming quasi-AI music programs back in the late 90s using Forth and Max. Her biggest project was "Acoustic Reflex" which would improvise with her as she played flute with it monitored by a pitch follower. Amazing stuff, done back when the internet was still pretty much nothing more than a bunch of message boards. But she didn't like computers, she regarded them as a tool, and a frequently malfunctioning tool at that.
"Computers," she'd always say, "are not intrinsically interesting." But for all of that, when she passed, she was busily learning Flash CS4 and LUA. We were going to do a multimedia game-esque thingee together. The fact that we never got it finished makes me sad, but I try to remind myself of how much she did do.
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