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Continuing my momentary lapses of control, this week I have misfired in putting toothpaste onto my toothbrush. Rather than the literal misfire and subsequent cleaning up, in one instance I put Palmolive antibacterial dish soap on my toothbrush. The second instance was when I soaked the toothbrush in my contact solution. High fives all around.

A friend of mine recently purchased a MacBook Pro with my Apple-Campus-Rep assistance and advice. Unfortunately, however, she received one of the infrequent defect models (grabbed it from the store that day, not an online order), noticed by a full line of dead pixels. After consulting each other in how to handle the situation, a decision was made to be firm with the bookstore people and request a DOA swap. After being firm with the bookstore computer people and after several calls made to their superiors, we were able to secure that swap. The only wait now is for the new computer which is flying in from Taiwan. I think it is Taiwan, at least.

During my first industrial circuits lab today, running the infallible Windows 95, my lab partner and I received blue screens of death in both instances of trying to save our graphical images of oscilloscope readings. After a complete printing failure, we went about the experiment again, but at Mach 3. Both of our image captures were granted blue screens of death once more; however, the printing computer was able to somewhat pick up the results after the file transfer. The only drawback to our printed images was that they had garbled color and characters all over them. It’s kind of like turning in a video to your film production class when every other frame is snow-static. It doesn’t look good and has unbelievably obvious flaws, but it can work.

I guess that is the best description of Windows as a whole, actually. Jeremiah had it right - “Everything Just Works™” with Mac. I apologize for being shameless. Rainy Thursdays may make me a bit more feisty.

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