My iPod is probably officially dead. After a couple of days, the fog has disappeared from the screen, but it won’t power up and the computer can’t recognize it. I don’t see any hope now.
I’m a fucking idiot.
Category: Rant
That can’t be good
I just dropped my 60Gb Photo iPod in the toilet. Fortunately, after I’d flushed. But now it’s acting funny. I’m hoping that if I leave it alone for a while, it will dry out and be ok. Otherwise, I might be getting that video iPod sooner than I wanted.
Fascinating Facts
Fascinating Facts My Coworkers Don’t Appear to Know:
- Cubicle walls are not infinitely rigid membranes, but are in fact quite flexible.
- As well as transmitting motion, cubicle walls also don’t do much to stop sound.
- The other side of the cubicle wall that bounds a hallway frequently bounds a cubicle that contains a human being. Sometimes that human being is actually trying to work, or at least feign it convincingly. Flexing his or her cubicle wall by leaning against it, punching it or grabbing the top and shaking it or having loud hallway meetings just on the other side of that cubicle wall may be distracting to him or her and make it hard for him or her to accomplish their goal of working or feigning work.
- If you are unable to stand on your own two feet for the duration of your loud and distracting hallway meeting, our employer helpfully provides chairs that you can sit down on. You will find those chairs back at your cubicle, or at the cubicle of the person you are talking to, or in our many meeting rooms, or in the break room. They are not provided in hallways, for reasons that might become apparent if you carefully read the previous points.
Just thought you’d like to know.
Fuck fuck fuckity fuck.
(I should probably stop using this as a title – Firefox actually filled it in after the first couple of letters)
I took my Powerbook into Apple to fix the problem with the DVD drive not ejecting. This is the second time I’ve brought it back – the first time they replaced the drive itself, but told me the frame of the laptop was twisted and they may have to replace some of the case if it happens again. And it happened again.
They gave me the usual spiel about how they can’t guarantee that they won’t wipe your hard drive, so make sure you’ve got a back up. I said “yeah, yeah, yeah” since I have a nightly cron job that backs up my home directory to my Linux server, and besides they worked on it before without killing my hard drive, so why should they wipe it this time?
And of course, they did wipe it. My restore restored the files, but of course now I have to find and re-download all my apps. Hope my iTunes Music Store purchases still work.
And Browncroft Garage for the loss
In spite of the fact that yesterday Dunn tire told me my tires were fine, today Browncroft Garage refused to pass my state inspection unless I replaced them. Dammit. They’re also replacing the front brake calipers, which I’m not 100% surprised about.
Why is that nothing with cars can be easy or cheap?