I don’t even know where to start with this one. Do I stop and think about it, compose a coherent statement about the subject at hand, or just post the link? I think I’ll just blurt something out right from the hip first, THEN post the link.
I’m a lefty, commie, blue-state liberal. I don’t think that we as people, as a community, or as a country should fear Everybody Who Ain’t Us as some kind of foreign policy. I don’t think that we should go around the world, striking pre-emptively any place that we have decided has natural resources that we want but don’t want to pay for, or places where different cultures live that we do not fully understand. I also do not believe that everything (certainly not politics and not religion) is an Us vs Them sort of game. Current politics is just asinine in the sense that Republicans and Democrats have so thoroughly drank (drunk?, drunken?, drinked?) the Kool-Aid that they can’t actually do their jobs effectively anymore, it seems. Whatever…I’m getting ready to go off on a big old tangent. The reality is that some Americans are so fearful of others and then so loud in their condemnation, that our reputation around the world is taking a wholesale nosedive. I know this isn’t new, nor is it news, but every so often I see some example of it out in my daily life, and for a split-second I get so pissed I wanna pour Sprite on my own computer ON PURPOSE!
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Well, I was up until 5am, ripping apart the laptop. As you can see, it was an interesting process, especially since I’m a bike mechanic and not a computer tech. Basically that just means that while I understand screws and the importance of not stripping out threads, I’m very used to being incredibly dirty and greasy when I do so, so having to be ultra-careful in this process was quite stressful.
I’d say that if I were being graded on my performance, I may have passed and been allowed to attend Computer Tech 101, but I wouldn’t have passed my final exam. Sure, the computer works (hey, I’m posting this from the very computer in question!) but the LEDs that light up the keys on the keyboard don’t light up no mo’, and there are still a couple of minorly sticky keys. So I can still download porn, but not very efficiently in the dark, when I might not be able to see the keyboard. Unlike most people born after 1990 or so, I can type without looking at the keyboard, but I have to find the J and the F keys before I start composing a true masterpiece, zeemzane?
At any rate, I’m back up and running and I only suffered a minor heart attack in the process. I’m told by 3 different people that if I hadn’t been trying to be “responsible” and had been drinking beer instead of a non-alcoholic drink, this surely would not have happened. I’m inclined to believe that. Mostly because I’m an idiot, but that’s another story. Very extra special awesome thanks to Brent and Kate for having been home and able to let me borrow the miniature screwdriver set.
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So there I was, at the bar, knee-deep in a pint of Sprite, when my phone got all vibrate-y. As I am wont to do, I reached for the phone, but my arm hit the pint of Sprite, and spilled it onto my laptop. I was originally there for the food and the internets, but all of a sudden I was frantically shutting my computer down and blotting the very sticky, sugary beverage from the keyboard.
FUCK ME!
The computer is an Apple MacBook Pro, and as you can imagine, isn’t among the cheaper of computers out there, so I was a little agitated. As in, a shitload. But I calmly dabbed and blotted as much liquid as I could from the external surfaces, and promptly went home to see if I was out $2000 or not.
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