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okay. so i just took my computer over to the Best Buy (and it's incredibly complicated to get there, even though it's right on a main road), but i was unable to get my free check up. i bring the thing in and plunk it on the counter, and Reggie hooks it up to the monitor and keyboard and mouse they have sitting right there for just such a need, and my computer does not turn on. this is because my computer does not have an ON button. seriously. it does not. i just push the space bar and on it goes. i tell Reggie this, and he looks at me incredulously, pushes the space bar a few times, and of course, on it does not go. Reggie calls over Jason, who pokes at my machine a few times (there's a hole on the top right corner of the front of it where there used to be a light, and Jason seems to think this would be the ON button), and then he pushes at the space bar a few times. no ONing occurs. so Reggie tries hooking a different, older monitor and keyboard to my machine, and this doesn't work either. so what can he do for me? i take it home.
obviously, the computer is now ON, here in my apartment. i hooked it back up to the regular monitor and keyboard, plug it in, and it goes on immediately. and now, looking at my keyboard, i see that there's a little icon on the spacebar of a computer with little rays coming out of it, like the sun or jesus's head or something, and i can only assume it means "press here for ON". unless it's a warning about radiation or something, which i prefer not to consider.
so i'm going to take the thing back on saturday, with the keyboard that it refuses to be parted from. Reggie said i could do that, and he'll remember me, so i can still get my little check-up. and i can also bring jorn and his computer with me too, and they can also get a check-up.
but i ask you, what idiot would have designed a fucking computer without an ON button on it?
one good thing about my fruitless trip to the unfindable Best Buy--i ran into thad in the parking lot. yes, thad, my friend and sometime boss from teh HLC, who i've bitched and ranted about, and who i really do miss. so we stood around and chatted in the parking lot for a while, it was good to see him.
obviously, the computer is now ON, here in my apartment. i hooked it back up to the regular monitor and keyboard, plug it in, and it goes on immediately. and now, looking at my keyboard, i see that there's a little icon on the spacebar of a computer with little rays coming out of it, like the sun or jesus's head or something, and i can only assume it means "press here for ON". unless it's a warning about radiation or something, which i prefer not to consider.
so i'm going to take the thing back on saturday, with the keyboard that it refuses to be parted from. Reggie said i could do that, and he'll remember me, so i can still get my little check-up. and i can also bring jorn and his computer with me too, and they can also get a check-up.
but i ask you, what idiot would have designed a fucking computer without an ON button on it?
one good thing about my fruitless trip to the unfindable Best Buy--i ran into thad in the parking lot. yes, thad, my friend and sometime boss from teh HLC, who i've bitched and ranted about, and who i really do miss. so we stood around and chatted in the parking lot for a while, it was good to see him.
