Laptop and Car
October 24th, 2007 by WaltMy laptop broke again today, so posting will continue to be light. (This time, it’s the monitor.) Also, my car broke. Next, after I post this, a meteor will probably flatten my house.
My laptop broke again today, so posting will continue to be light. (This time, it’s the monitor.) Also, my car broke. Next, after I post this, a meteor will probably flatten my house.
October 25th, 2007 at 12:16 am
Wow.
October 25th, 2007 at 10:11 am
Infrastructure fails. Get over it. Hey, my wife and I have unexpectedly had to spend over $13,000 in a series of plumbing and sewage disasters over the past year and a half. Which is worse: not being able to get spam on your laptop, or not being able to get away from your own crap at home?
Also, I count myself lucky as one of the Southern California residents who merely has respiratory ailments from smoke, and who did NOT lose a family member or home in the gigabuck firestorm this week, or even have to evacuate this time. In 1993 I had to evacuate my family away from the Altadena-Malibu fires, and then stay and work all night as the local Town Councilman, deputized by the fire chief for the emergency.
October 25th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
I’m finding your comment bizarre, Jonathan. Nowhere do I say that I alone suffer. If you wrote somewhere else that you spent $13,000 on plumbing, it would never occur to me to say “get over it”, and list a bunch of unrelated bad stuff that happened to me.
October 25th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
Agreed. We all suffer. It’s the human condition. I didn’t mean, in my asthmatic, coughing, sleeplessness, to imply that you nor I have exceptionalist status.
Computers have been crashing on me since I started programming on an IBM 1130 in 1966, and now roughly a billion people have shared our pain.
And don’t get me started on cars. I’ve had my windshields shot out by vandals, engines blow up, transmissions fall onto the road, been sideswiped by a truckdriver at a stop light while he leaned out his window chatting with another truckdriver, and 14 Nov 2007 my wife and I are subpoenaed as witnesses and victims in the Sentencing Hearing and Restitutiuon Hearing of a rich, powerful local politician who totalled ourt legally parked car, fled the scene, was followed to his mansion, where he professed not to know, was prosecuted for 2 years for criminal misdemeanor Hit & Run, and then pulled strings and got plea-bargained down to a civil infraction “Intentionally making a loud annoying noise in public”, said noise being my car being crunched into an undrivable accordion, and the founding fathers rolling over in their graves.
After personally witnessing the first big New York City power blackout, the explosion of Mt. Saint Helens, the “little big one” earthquake in California, and the Rodney King riots, I also worry about that giant meteorite.
October 26th, 2007 at 10:59 am
Jonathan sounds a little too focused on his own problems to offer much sympathy.
Maybe you should have made your post more mathematical, say by calculating the actual probability of a meteorite crushing your house.
October 26th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
Meteorite? You sound about as lucky as David and Emily Franklin. While everyone else here in Southern California was suffering from fires, their roof was smashed in by a 60-pound piece of ice that fell from the sky.
October 28th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
You have a car? A house? A laptop? Gee, some people are never happy.
October 29th, 2007 at 7:45 am
I am guessing from your reply on the 25th, that thankfully your house wasn’t flattened by a meteor! The funny thing about things going wrong (well not really that funny!) is that everything seems to happen at once.
(I thought that Jonathan might have been erm… joking?)
October 29th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
Oh, my house was flattened by a meteor, alright. But I really only used it to hold my laptop, so now that’s gone I don’t mind losing my house.