Jon Litwack

Macbook Hiatus

// March 23rd, 2008 // Stuff

Last week, yours truly took a wee tumble on some ice.
Now ordinarily, that wouldn’t do any real damage as I’ve been known to get hit by cars and still keep my tech intact. HOWEVER. On this particular day, I was lugging a projector back to the office, so my weight was being portioned out across my shoulders at an uneven ratio of 5 lb. laptop on my left, and ?? lb. projector on my right. Long story short, company property took precedent over mine, and my Macbook Pro got… well… bent.
I found this out when I got into the office (bruised and scratched up) and put my lappy down to find that it wasn’t sitting evenly on my desk.
I lifted it up to check to see that the surface wasn’t covered by the usual things that make my laptop wobble, ie. wires, jacks (of the game variety), pens, post its, etc.
Nope, nothing there, so going in on close eye inspection, there was a 10 degree bend in the bottom corner of my hardware.
Took the Apple Store a week to get the new parts in, and a full day to fix.

Lessons Learned:
When I don’t have a laptop or any computer to use, I clean… Obsessively.
I get an impulse every 30 minutes to check Digg.com, and when I can’t, I have to turn the tv on to CNN… Not an effective substitute.
I get anxiety attacks from not being able to work, or at least look at work every two hours.
My blackberry begins to function well beyond its means, and the speed of the internet brings me back to being 12 years old… except back then it was normal to wait for a whole minute to load up a webpage with three images on it.

Anyway, I’m all fixed up now. I popped a new video up on the Facebook page… Stay tuned for more appropriate data exploitation between Drupal and FB.

Cheers,
Jon