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Nov. 26th, 2007 06:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skygiantsI have a gift.
And that gift is that somehow - by magic! - I am able to destroy any technology I come into contact with. Unlike Newton Pulsifer's similar talent, however, this power seems to be in direct proportion to how much I need, love, and adore said piece of technology, so it would be of no use at all in destroying, say, a nuclear power plant set to explode.
My latest victim? The portable hard drive I got as a hand-me-down from my mother over Thanksgiving after the shiny new portable hard drive that was my birthday present turned out to be mysteriously incompatible with my computer. The old portable hard drive, while more venerable, worked perfectly well with my laptop; I'd used it to transfer all my files from the old laptop to the new, so this was proven. And it worked perfectly well on Saturday when I started deleting things off of it, and perfectly well yesterday when I started moving my music onto it.
Up until the exact moment when I'd definitively transferred absolutely all of my music off my computer and cleared out the Recycle Bin. Then, and only then, did it take it into its head to freeze up, start chirping, and eventually fail to communicate with the laptop altogether.
It could have been worse! I hadn't transferred any word documents onto the hard drive, and they're a lot less replaceable than the music is. And I still have my iPod, which has about a third of my music on it, and I also still hold out hope that it's something fixable - I've made an appointment with the dorm computer person. So we'll see. But . . . I really can't explain this timing except by way of an anti-miracle.
But no matter how grumpy I am, these vids continue to cheer me up.
And that gift is that somehow - by magic! - I am able to destroy any technology I come into contact with. Unlike Newton Pulsifer's similar talent, however, this power seems to be in direct proportion to how much I need, love, and adore said piece of technology, so it would be of no use at all in destroying, say, a nuclear power plant set to explode.
My latest victim? The portable hard drive I got as a hand-me-down from my mother over Thanksgiving after the shiny new portable hard drive that was my birthday present turned out to be mysteriously incompatible with my computer. The old portable hard drive, while more venerable, worked perfectly well with my laptop; I'd used it to transfer all my files from the old laptop to the new, so this was proven. And it worked perfectly well on Saturday when I started deleting things off of it, and perfectly well yesterday when I started moving my music onto it.
Up until the exact moment when I'd definitively transferred absolutely all of my music off my computer and cleared out the Recycle Bin. Then, and only then, did it take it into its head to freeze up, start chirping, and eventually fail to communicate with the laptop altogether.
It could have been worse! I hadn't transferred any word documents onto the hard drive, and they're a lot less replaceable than the music is. And I still have my iPod, which has about a third of my music on it, and I also still hold out hope that it's something fixable - I've made an appointment with the dorm computer person. So we'll see. But . . . I really can't explain this timing except by way of an anti-miracle.
But no matter how grumpy I am, these vids continue to cheer me up.
