UncategorizedApril 12, IST 23:1237 PM
Sorry, all, for being incommunicado for days. A week ago, my laptop hosed itself.
I suppose I should be happy: Where last Friday I couldn’t even get a power light, I now get the Fatal Blue Screen of Death.
I’m posting this via an old system. I’m not sure whether I’ll be able to get the next post in the series up or not, so if things are screwy around here, please bear with me for a few more days until I can get everything recovered and restored properly.
~ L
i’m sending good e-thoughts your way.
Comment by erizzle — April 18, IST @ 08:1822 AM
Thank you, erizzle!!! Definitely needed right now. The data recovery - if it’s even possible - is probably gonna set me back by enough to buy my own third world country. Jeez, I feel like an idiot.
Comment by Administrator — April 19, IST @ 09:1942 AM
the NSA would do it for free
these tools we’re using are designed, at least to a small degree, to age and die prematurely. i can’t even sharpen a knife without nicking the blade. computers? forget it.
dig that Cooper story above.
Comment by erizzle — April 20, IST @ 06:2056 AM
“the NSA would do it for free”
And here’s Lilith, live-blogging from Gitmo . . . .
But you’re right, erizzle - this was the third laptop I’ve bought in as many years, and it looks like I’m going to have to get another one this year. (Not just because of this problem, but because I now need more power and features that this one doesn’t have). But with all three, before the initial year was up, keys were starting to fall off and other annoying problems were cropping up. In fact, by the second month, I’d already worn most of the letter “E” off the key. Planned obsolescence is definitely the marketing strategy.
WRT Cooper: Yeah, don’t you love that line, “I could do the full Mandela”? Not - ahem - full of himself or anything, is he? Newsflash, Matt: When musing on the consequences of [hardly] doing one’s cushy, access-laden “job,” comparing oneself to a true martyr to a real cause is not only unseemly - it’s fucking laughable.
Comment by Administrator — April 22, IST @ 20:2204 PM