FUCKING PHONE
Friday, February the 13th, 2004
It rung. It was apparently for me. I got up to pick it up, and dropped megatr0n AGAIN. Thank goodness it ONLY landed on the protruding wireless card and only BROKE it. Thank goodness warranties don’t cover IMPACT DAMAGES DUE TO BEING DROPPED. Thank goodness I only bought the most expensive card in the store.
FUCKING LIFE.
February 13th, 2004 at 7:36 pm
what is megatron !?
February 13th, 2004 at 8:16 pm
My laptop. My poor abused laptop.
February 13th, 2004 at 9:55 pm
my laptop that i had when i was in grad school got abused a lot too. it’s completely messed up in so many ways…it just used to make me so mad to think “if only the phone hadn’t rung, i wouldn’t have gotten up so fast and tripped over the cord and dropped it!!”, things like that…happened way too many times.
February 14th, 2004 at 9:06 am
Exactly. Waay too many times. And it’s always been something stupid wih the environment I was at at the time.
At one point it couldn’t take it any more and refused to power up. I send it off for getting it fixed, see it after a month and a half, and it falls within a week. Again.
February 15th, 2004 at 2:44 am
I think you are taking the term ‘lap’top too seriously. Try more like, small computer to keep on solid grounded surface.
February 15th, 2004 at 7:15 am
What’s the fun in that?
February 16th, 2004 at 3:21 am
welcome to the ‘real’ world :)
February 16th, 2004 at 8:13 am
ok you actually said fucking. That must have been a really expensive card.
February 16th, 2004 at 8:14 am
I currently have a laptop that is attached to its screen by a few bits of plastic and some stringy wires so yeah I do see why it is a fucking life.
February 16th, 2004 at 8:52 am
adi: Yes, and it sucks. My sim would never do something so stupid.
I coulda just played the game watching it play on a laptop.
February 16th, 2004 at 8:55 am
IW: It was expensive. And I have to tell eeq, she wouldn’t believe I chose not to self-censor words to indicate magnitude of anger. Apparently it works.
And yes, designers aren’t particularly concerned about robustness when they make these things. But then again, they don’t plan for it being dropped through 3-4 feet every week. But then again, they ought to.