Long Live Apple
My main computer is an iBook G4/800 that’s about a year old. It was slow when I got it new, and like all computers, it hasn’t gotten any better since then. However, it’s a good little laptop, it has character, and I enjoy using it.
My desktop machine is a frankenstein PC that I’ve gradually pieced together and upgraded over the years. However, this sucker has burned out on me maybe six times. 3 fried mainboards and 2 fried power supplies, and 1 blasted hard drive. Every time this computer dies on me, I get into its guts, figure out what’s wrong, and fix it - mainly cause I can (hey, I got skillz.)
It just died on me again. Just now. At about 4AM.
Fuck it. That’s lucky number 7. I’m leaving it dead. I’m not going to even figured out why it died. I’m a little sad tho. I put so much effort into this one.
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I might have said this before, but I like fixing computers. I’m good at it. It currently pays the bills. The inevitably resulting nerdiness probably helped me score the role of “Hal” in Proof. And, honestly, it’s a tangible way I can help people.
Actors are such useless people on the basest human level. I can’t go to someone’s apartment and make myself useful by acting for them. If a meteor hit the earth and blasted us all back into pre-technology chaos, doctors and engineers would become celebrities, and actors would probably end up in the fields picking sugar beets or doing whatever else they’re qualified to do. Of course, there is a human need for art and it would eventually come back into vogue and respect. But really it’s not something I can immediately affect the world with.
Possibly in time. But for now, and until I get to that point, I fix computers for people. Well…except for the one that just crapped on me.
Maybe I’ll get a mac mini. Or maybe I’ll shut the hell up and just be happy with my iBook for at least another year.
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