Aaron Adams’s Lame-ass Blog

Here’s an e-mail I got from my friend John Kurokawa this morning:

Hey Aaron,

… I have to take my PowerBook in to the Apple Store in Cleveland. If anyone ever asks you why they should get AppleCare, show them these pictures.

I walked away from the machine for 2 minutes, and when I came back, found a lovely (Aqua?) blue line running through the screen. It was like I’d been bitchslapped by my ex. It’s there when I boot off my installation CD and it passes the Apple hardware test, so I’m pretty sure it’s a motherboard/videocard problem. Anyway, I’ll take it to a Genius and leave it in the hands of the gods!

…

Later,

John

He’s had that PowerBook for (I think) two years now, and who-knows-what created this particular problem. If I remember correctly, AppleCare for a PowerBook cost somewhere in the $300 range. LCD or logic board replacement would likely cost much more.

This e-mail appeared in my inbox this afternoon from my friend Ted:

blah, blah, blah, laptop bag, blah, blah, blah…

…Can you possibly add more fluff to your site? I mean, I’m in a sugar induced coma already. Where’s the real news?

Let me clear this up in case there are any misconceptions… This is not a news site. The purpose of this site is to serve as an outlet for me to spout the dry, unoriginal thoughts I happen to feel motivated enough to write down. It also occasionally provides a platform for me to play with new web-related technologies and toys. There’s no news here. Now, if someone with actual newsworthy information wanted to leak that to me in a completely anonymous way so I could subject that information to my usual dry, unoriginal thinking processes, then by all means feel free. I’m not holding my breath.