June 25, 2009
Thu 11:41 AM
why didn't i post last night? too lazy? nope, way too damn hot. my room is an oven, that's what happens when you have an apartment with no air. i just couldn't bring myself to turn on my laptop, i didn't need the extra heat source. right now i'm trying to sum this post up as quickly as possible so i can turn my laptop off. my old laptop, it's the one closest to me so i'm using it. so damn hot.
oh, and my old laptop is now even crappier than it was before... and i didn't think that was possible. i shouldn't say that, it was a really good laptop before i messed it up myself. see, i know a lot about most electronics, and i like to pretend i know something about computers when really i don't. so, one day when i was a sophmore in college i tried deleting some of the programs that automatically start up when you turn on a pc... to try to make it go faster. don't do that. to describe it best, i severed some of the nerves in my computer's brain. it can find some stuff, but others... like a cd burner, it claims it doesn't have. and it's always trying to update... in vain. i cannot install or uninstall any programs. despite all this, the thing still worked... well, the only parts i needed to work. the internet explorer and microsoft word. that's all i needed. any other computer would've given up long ago. not this one, my first toshiba. that's why i bought another one, but i can tell my new one is not built as well as this one. just seems cheaper. more powerful software sure, but, not constructed as well.
so, like the previous experiment, this laptop got crappier directly because of me. let me illustrate the point.
nice, no? so, apparently if you step on a laptop you risk breaking the screen... something perhaps a college graduate should understand. i'm an idiot. i can almost pinpoint when this happened, i though i was stepping on a book. i stepped on it like two or three times before i realized it wasn't a book. and after realizing it was my old laptop and not a book i simply ignored it, until i opened it yesterday. oh yeah, i suppose stepping on it could be bad. my mistake. at least the crack isn't in the middle of the screen. i can deal with it in the upper left corner. maybe if i just cleaned my room this wouldn't have been an issue.
but like i said, it really doesn't bother me. i mean, my new laptop has a dead pixel and i haven't disowned it yet. it's probably poetic justice that it's my old laptop too... i probably would be pissed if it was my new one. even so, i take the destruction of things in stride, i really don't get all bent out of shape. when i killed my old cell phone in the wash i laughed it off. karma it was, for the evening prior i had made fun of the stupid phone... and it made it's way to the dryer before i realized it was in my jeans pocket. well, before my mom noticed. and no, she wasn't doing my laundry, i was... she was just more concerned about the constant banging in the dryer than i was.
anyway, broken laptops aside, i really wanted to write about iran and north korea... they're like two disobedient children of countries. and i think north korea is suddenly making a fuss again because they're being overshadowed by iran... the kid who's being ignored at the moment and wants attention so they try to start a fire.
anyway, i can't take the heat off this thing anymore.
salbrent
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