2006 is not the year of technology. In one hundred years historians will look back at the year 2006 and say, “Damn, that was a fracking bad time.” Then they will blog about it.

(In the future blogging will become the new term for the biological process of expelling gas. Also in the future the term “frack” will be used as an explitive. I know this because that’s what happens on Battlestar Gallactaca and that takes place in the future. Obviously.)

2006 is not the year of technology because it is the year during which the iPod died. The laptop must not have been coping with the death of its beloved well because now it has decided to be uncooperative and withdrawn, perhaps in mourning. In essence, it is broken.

I would like to take the laptop, shake it soundly, and say, “Laptop! Stop this ridiculous behavior! Can’t you see that you’re hurting me? This will not bring the iPod back! Stop playing with my heart!” But you cannot force technology to listen to reason.

And the laptop is hurting me. Apparently my heart is connected to my GPA, the GPA to my papers, and the papers to the laptop. Fortunately it seems that professors are forgiving and somewhat amused in this instance, as it is an uncommon occurance to pathetically whine, “I only have 3/4 of the paper because the monitor on my laptop is broken. Everything else works fine, but I just can’t see it. So this is the bit I had backed up. See? No, it’s not dead. I just can’t see anything on the, you know, screen bit. I can’t see the finished paper because I can’t see anything. Wah!”

So if you don’t see anything for some time here at Dork Blog, that is because I cannot see anything. In the meantime you should see Marie Antoinette because it is visually like eating cake. Fluffy, extravagant, delicious cake. And everyone loves cake.

Misc.

November 16, 2006

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