{"id":86,"date":"2007-11-26T14:48:11","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T18:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/2007\/11\/26\/acme-death-ray-tech-support-call-transcipt-from-brain-handles\/"},"modified":"2007-11-26T14:48:11","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T18:48:11","slug":"acme-death-ray-tech-support-call-transcipt-from-brain-handles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/26\/acme-death-ray-tech-support-call-transcipt-from-brain-handles\/","title":{"rendered":"Acme Death Ray Tech Support Call Transcipt, from Brain Handles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainhandles.com\/2007\/09\/26\/have-you-tried-rebooting-the-death-ray\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/techsupport.jpg\" alt=\"Death Ray Technical Support\" border=\"0\" height=\"323\" hspace=\"4\" width=\"260\" style=\"float:right;margin:12px;margin-right:-12px;\"\/><\/a>\n<\/p><p>\nI just fell over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainhandles.com\/2007\/09\/26\/have-you-tried-rebooting-the-death-ray\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this entertaining post<\/a> at Brain Handles; it&#8217;s the transcript of a technical support call for Acme&#8217;s Giant Death Ray, which the customer bought from Amazon. I do hope he got the free shipping.\n<\/p><p>\nGreat stuff, especially if you&#8217;ve ever fielded a tech support call yourself &#8211; I used to get them from time to time even though they weren&#8217;t for me.\n<\/p><p>\nExample: <em>&#8220;Look sonny, I typed up my first plan for world conquest using Paperclip on a Commodore 64. I&#8217;ve been asked &#8220;did you reboot&#8221; more times than you&#8217;ve been laid.&#8221;<\/em>\n<\/p><br \/><br \/>\n\n<map name=\"deathraymap\"> <area href=\"http:\/\/www.printfection.com\/retro-future\/Certifiable-MAD-GENIUS-T-Shirt\/_p_871714\" shape=\"rect\" coords=\"10,38,219,57\" target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Mad Genius Tee Shirts\" \/> <area href=\"http:\/\/www.printfection.com\/retro-future\/Ask-Me-About-My-Death-Ray-T-Shirt\/_p_888377\" shape=\"rect\" coords=\"31,63,253,92\" target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Daeth Ray Tee Shirts\" \/> <area href=\"http:\/\/www.printfection.com\/retro-future\" shape=\"rect\" coords=\"11,100,295,113\" target=\"_blank\" alt=\"T-Shirts for the World of Tomorrow\" \/> <area href=\"http:\/\/www.printfection.com\/retro-future\/Certifiable-MAD-GENIUS-T-Shirt\/_p_871714\" shape=\"rect\" coords=\"296,15,406,115\" target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Mad Genius T-Shirts\" \/> <area href=\"http:\/\/www.printfection.com\/retro-future\/Ask-Me-About-My-Death-Ray-T-Shirt\/_p_888377\" shape=\"rect\" coords=\"405,16,494,115\" target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Ask Me About My Death Ray T-Shirts\" \/> <\/map><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/Related_deathray.jpg\" usemap=\"#deathraymap\" border=\"0\" height=\"122\" width=\"501\" \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just fell over this entertaining post at Brain Handles; it&#8217;s the transcript of a technical support call for Acme&#8217;s Giant Death Ray, which the customer bought from Amazon. I do hope he got the free shipping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-on-the-web"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}