Reboot

Why does a reboot seem to fix everything with computers nowadays? It doesn't work with anything else in the world. If you are going down a hill in your car and the brakes go out, you don't restart the car to see if that fixes it.

Maybe it has something to do with human nature. When a light bulb blows, what's the first thing you do? Yeah, that's right. Just like me and everyone else, you stand there like a fool flipping the switch on and off.

I had a friend once that was using a nail gun on a cabinet. He fired, but nothing happened. What did he do? He fires three or four more times to get it to work. The genius didn't check to see if it had any nails.

I'm waiting a doctor show like House or Scrubs to show a patient lying there plugged into the machine with the beep, beep, beep going. Suddenly that long tone signaling the end and the doctor reaches over, turns the machine off and then back on. It comes back to life with beep, beep, beep. "Don't worry, it does that all the time." the doctor quips. Now that's comedy.