NintendoTogepi
April 29th, 2009, 08:17 PM
This isn't really a technical question, just more of a strange/paranormal story with a computer twist.
First, some back story. My great grandfather (my maternal grandmothers father) was a great man, apparently. My mother and my grandma just adored him. Now, he always assiocated himself with the number '257'. I can't recall exactly why, but I think it was the address of his house or something, and he played it in the lottery every now and then. When he unfortunately died in the 80s of cancer, my grandmother and mother were grief stricken. But they remembered his number, and they would always think about him when it was 2:57am or 2:57pm and they saw it on the clock.
So anyway, fast forward I'm born blah blah, and they still do this. I can remember my mom going 'aww...257...grandpa' when I was like 5-6. My grandma plays it in the lottery as well. Anyway, so it's Sunday night. My Mom is on her laptop, just doing some late night searching. Anyway, she looks at her clock on the computer taskbak. 2:57am. 'Hi grandpa', says. But then she thinks, 'that's weird, it seems a lot later than that'. But she continues browsing. Her eye catches the clock around 10-20 minutes later. 2:57am. 'What?' She thinks. She presses the 'TV Guide' button on the TiVo, and sees it's actually 3:40am (give or take 10 minutes, cannot recall exactly).
So she is freaked out. Why has her clock frozen on 2:57? Plus, of all the numbers for it freeze on, it would freeze on the number she has linked to her grandpa for over 20 years?
She actually was so creeped out she came and woke me up to show it to me. I tried to click on it and stuff but it didn't work, and the clock didn't change. Then it said there was an error and the screen went black for a second, and when it came back the time was now correct.
Freaky :O but here's what truly makes the story spooky.
So the next day, we were talking in her room and she was on her laptop. Dad gets home with the subs from Debella's and we go to eat them. When we're done, we wash up etc and my mom goes back to her computer and she calls to me 'What time is it?'
'6:08' (Something like that) I say back. 'Can you come in here?'. She says. I come in and she says 'Look at the time'. 5:27pm. And as before, it does not change, and the task bar doesn't work, and then it errors, screen turns black and the time goes back to normal.
Anyway, what's the explanation? My mom is convinced it's a sign (and I'm not sure it isn't) The computer has never had issues with the time freezing before and the two times I just listed are the only times it has froze.
What would be the technical reason for this? It's a December 2008 laptop with Vista on it :confused:
First, some back story. My great grandfather (my maternal grandmothers father) was a great man, apparently. My mother and my grandma just adored him. Now, he always assiocated himself with the number '257'. I can't recall exactly why, but I think it was the address of his house or something, and he played it in the lottery every now and then. When he unfortunately died in the 80s of cancer, my grandmother and mother were grief stricken. But they remembered his number, and they would always think about him when it was 2:57am or 2:57pm and they saw it on the clock.
So anyway, fast forward I'm born blah blah, and they still do this. I can remember my mom going 'aww...257...grandpa' when I was like 5-6. My grandma plays it in the lottery as well. Anyway, so it's Sunday night. My Mom is on her laptop, just doing some late night searching. Anyway, she looks at her clock on the computer taskbak. 2:57am. 'Hi grandpa', says. But then she thinks, 'that's weird, it seems a lot later than that'. But she continues browsing. Her eye catches the clock around 10-20 minutes later. 2:57am. 'What?' She thinks. She presses the 'TV Guide' button on the TiVo, and sees it's actually 3:40am (give or take 10 minutes, cannot recall exactly).
So she is freaked out. Why has her clock frozen on 2:57? Plus, of all the numbers for it freeze on, it would freeze on the number she has linked to her grandpa for over 20 years?
She actually was so creeped out she came and woke me up to show it to me. I tried to click on it and stuff but it didn't work, and the clock didn't change. Then it said there was an error and the screen went black for a second, and when it came back the time was now correct.
Freaky :O but here's what truly makes the story spooky.
So the next day, we were talking in her room and she was on her laptop. Dad gets home with the subs from Debella's and we go to eat them. When we're done, we wash up etc and my mom goes back to her computer and she calls to me 'What time is it?'
'6:08' (Something like that) I say back. 'Can you come in here?'. She says. I come in and she says 'Look at the time'. 5:27pm. And as before, it does not change, and the task bar doesn't work, and then it errors, screen turns black and the time goes back to normal.
Anyway, what's the explanation? My mom is convinced it's a sign (and I'm not sure it isn't) The computer has never had issues with the time freezing before and the two times I just listed are the only times it has froze.
What would be the technical reason for this? It's a December 2008 laptop with Vista on it :confused: