{"id":65,"date":"2004-03-12T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-12T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spoonybard.com\/?p=65"},"modified":"2004-03-12T12:48:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-12T16:48:00","slug":"the-definition-of-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spoonybard.ca\/2004\/03\/the-definition-of-stupid.html","title":{"rendered":"the definition of stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>customer: i have this blue box in the middle of my screen with a bunch of white squares all over it with pictures and letters.<br \/>\nme: it&#8217;s just your monitor&#8217;s menu, there should be an exit button on your monitor to turn it off.<br \/>\ncustomer: well i&#8217;m looking everywhere and i can&#8217;t see anything that turns this off. it says &#8220;osd&#8221; on it.<br \/>\nme: ok well just look for the button on your monitor.<br \/>\ncustomer: by monitor do you mean my keyboard?<br \/>\nme: no, i mean your monitor, your screen.<br \/>\ncustomer: oh well the only thing on my screen is the blue thing.<br \/>\nme: under the screen part, on your monitor, at the bottom, you should see a couple of buttons there.<br \/>\ncustomer: oh i see there are five buttons there is this ok?<br \/>\nme: yes just look at those and you should have an off button.<br \/>\ncustomer: i really need this working i wish i had never got the internet through you people.<br \/>\nme: well this isn&#8217;t a problem with the internet, this isn&#8217;t even a problem with your computer, it&#8217;s just your monitor&#8217;s menu.<br \/>\ncustomer: what do you mean monitor? you keep saying that. do you mean that little white box you folks gave me with all the lights on it?<br \/>\nme: no, your monitor is your screen.<br \/>\ncustomer: i&#8217;m moving the mouse and it won&#8217;t do anything.<br \/>\nme: you don&#8217;t need to use your mouse to do this just the buttons on your monitor.<br \/>\ncustomer: there&#8217;s a plus and a minus should i use these?<br \/>\nme: sure, give it a try.<br \/>\ncustomer: how many times do i press them?<br \/>\nme: i honestly couldn&#8217;t tell you it depends on your monitor.<br \/>\ncustomer: do you even work with computers?<br \/>\nme: yes, but this is not even a computer problem. it depends on your monitor. they&#8217;re all different. you just need to turn the menu off.<br \/>\ncustomer: well what can i do?<br \/>\nme: just play with it for a while and it&#8217;ll go away.<br \/>\ncustomer: all right, fine. bye.<br \/>\nme: bye.<\/p>\n<p>why me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>customer: i have this blue box in the middle of my screen with a bunch of white squares all over it with pictures and letters. me: it&#8217;s just your monitor&#8217;s menu, there should be an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spoonybard.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spoonybard.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spoonybard.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spoonybard.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spoonybard.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spoonybard.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spoonybard.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spoonybard.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spoonybard.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}