I am the Black Widow of Powerbooks
February 27, 2008 – 8:15 AMSo, in the “funny” category, and by “funny” I mean “funny” and not “funny ha-ha”, or perhaps several months from now it will have fallen back into the “tragically comedic funny” — my aluminum Powerbook is officially narcoleptic. It won’t stay awake for more than 2 seconds at a time without falling back into sleep mode. For those with a taste for the “funny ha-ha”, you could try dialing back in time and plant yourself in our living room while Russell was commanding me to “set the energy saver settings to never sleep!” while I was shouting “Shut up! I’m trying!” and frustratedly rushing to try to change my energy saver settings in the 2-second increments in between the laptop waking back up and then promptly falling back asleep.
No, “frustratedly” is likely not a proper adverb. Sorry.
Admitting defeat on ye olde Albook, as the bottom RAM slot on it is *also* dead, I decided to pull ye older Pismo out from under the coffee table and dust it off and power it on as a backup solution. Ha ha! It all but gave me the finger, and that only because it has no fingers. The Pismo is dead. Not just narcoleptic, but stone-cold, far gone, fuck-you dead.
The Albook is at the Apple day spa down the street racking up a bill and getting taken care of. The Pismo is sitting around the house as a sort of morbid paperweight reminder. In the meantime, I just ordered a new Macbook.
May it live long and not take any field trips to the floor.