October 24, 2008 – Scribblings From The Public Restroom Stalls Of The Gods

Gadgetology

NOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo!

By Earl
October 24, 2008
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ARGH. Daddy is not happy. Daddy is, in fact, pissed. Something bad has happened to daddy’s little portable computer thingie. Actually, I don’t think Evan did this, because I’m pretty careful about not letting him get his grubby little paws on my Mobilepro, so I’m really perplexed as to how this happened to the wi-fi card that accounts for, oh, 99% of the little machine’s usefulness to me:

fire will rain down from the sky...oh, and yeah, almost forgot, Earl's wi-fi card will almost be bent in half.

As you can see, the antenna end of the wi-fi card has been physically bent upward, to the point that the casing is actually buckled. I don’t think Evan could’ve done that unless he got hold of the machine and hit a home run with it – and to the best of my knowledge this hasn’t happened. … Read more

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