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Shmeng of the Week: New Hazards of Computer Games |
Posted by
callei on Tuesday, May 13, 2003 - 09:15 AM PST
My monitor blew up. It made a sound like TV white noise or waves crashing. Then the smoke started pouring out of the top. Lots of smoke. More smoke that you would really think. Like it was smoking 3 cigars at once. Then the smell of burn circuits hit me and I realized it was on fire.
See I was playing some old computer game and it wanted me to switch discs. It was playing space noises mixed with ambient sounds while telling me “insert disc one”. The walk through said the screen would go blank for the start of the next section. When my screen went blank, I thought it was just the game.
Instead it was the accumulation of dust and tar that has been holding this monitor together. And last night, it caught fire. It wasn’t even a hot night, well not hot for here at least.
Now, this isn’t a big deal ™. There is an office parts store a few blocks from my house (if they are an office warehouse, why do they sell so many games?). But they close at 10:00. My monitor blew up at 10:03. Of course.
See I don’t have a car, so I have things that weigh more than 10 pounds delivered. IF I could have ordered a new one yesterday, say before 10:00 PM when they closed, I could have a new monitor delivered by those cute, sweaty boys this afternoon.
But nooooo, MY monitor has to wait til the store is closed to blow up and sizzle, so now I have to wait ‘til Wednesday AT THE SOONEST, to get a new one.
Until then, I have to borrow Shade’s monitor, and because I am also lazy and don’t like picking up heavy things and reattaching wiring all day, I also am using his computer, with all different bookmarks, none of my files, and nothing where I expect it to be. Just because my monitor blew up.
I blame the game…
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24 hour stores:
by JohnnyWormtown on May 13, 2003 - 10:32 AM
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we need a 24-hour store for every conceivable late-night activity/supply. Who will back me? I want to start a chain of 24-hour stores. It's just plain ridiculous how many times I've needed a part for my computer at 11pm.
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Re: 24 hour stores: by callei on May 14, 2003 - 10:48 AM (User info | Send a Message) http:// | I sooo wish there was venture capital out there for a chain of "things you tend to need at 11pm on a Sunday night". maybe made on the model of 7-11? open from 7pm to 11am?
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Re: New Hazards of Computer Games
by MystryssRavynDarque (A1MANDI04@AOL.COM)
on May 13, 2003 - 12:54 PM
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Awww, that really bites. I know exactly how it feels to need something at nite, and then the store is closed until the next day. What the hell are we supposed to do if it is a dire emergency?
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Re: New Hazards of Computer Games
by dead-cell (Tarant-9@stribmail.com)
on May 13, 2003 - 09:01 PM
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It's a conspiracy I tell you. Stores close at 10:00 pm for no good reason than to annoy you. Of course technology knows this and plans to continue to irritate us until the fall of civilization. :-D
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Re: New Hazards of Computer Games by callei on May 14, 2003 - 10:45 AM (User info | Send a Message) http:// | of all the weird and wrong thigs i have ever done to a computer, pulling the case off, opening up the hard drive, and trying to put a floppy disc in it has never even occured to me.
When i want to kill a hard drive, i just put a speaker on it and play the vandals (more for the poetic notion than because they make the speakers move more than any other band).
I have nearly put a floppy in the cd drive, but that was just from not paying attention to the media source. |
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