Technology hates me.
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torquillMost things have gone well today. Everything that has gone wrong has involved a piece of electronic equipment. To wit:
I went to use my headphones today and found out that only one ear works. Somehow, the insulation on part of the articulation next to the plug got compromised, and I now have bare wires there. I get to either take the articulations off and attempt to fix it, or replace the plug entirely. I'm okay with a soldering iron, but the plug will never be quite the same.
I logged on to IM, lily, and my email via PuTTY, and my school webmail, on one of the South Hall terminals. Somewhere along the way, it lost connection to its Windows server... and then wouldn't come back up. I crashed a second one trying to bring up another PuTTY session to log out, then gave up. (From the looks of things, it came back up around an hour later with my windows still active, as I have random keystrokes in my IM window).
I opened my PDA to check what room my history class was in, and found that the battery compartment had opened (despite the tape holding it in place) and it had forgotten everything. I have a backup at home, dated Sunday, but I haven't yet figured out how to work it so that I can revive the thing up at Davis. It's worthless to me until I get home again.
My Meizu is fine, though I can't listen to it without headphones, and my watch hasn't rebelled. I'm praying that my laptop doesn't decide to chip in once I get home.
I went to use my headphones today and found out that only one ear works. Somehow, the insulation on part of the articulation next to the plug got compromised, and I now have bare wires there. I get to either take the articulations off and attempt to fix it, or replace the plug entirely. I'm okay with a soldering iron, but the plug will never be quite the same.
I logged on to IM, lily, and my email via PuTTY, and my school webmail, on one of the South Hall terminals. Somewhere along the way, it lost connection to its Windows server... and then wouldn't come back up. I crashed a second one trying to bring up another PuTTY session to log out, then gave up. (From the looks of things, it came back up around an hour later with my windows still active, as I have random keystrokes in my IM window).
I opened my PDA to check what room my history class was in, and found that the battery compartment had opened (despite the tape holding it in place) and it had forgotten everything. I have a backup at home, dated Sunday, but I haven't yet figured out how to work it so that I can revive the thing up at Davis. It's worthless to me until I get home again.
My Meizu is fine, though I can't listen to it without headphones, and my watch hasn't rebelled. I'm praying that my laptop doesn't decide to chip in once I get home.
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Date: 2008-04-01 22:28 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-02 00:35 (UTC)Apparently they cost $30 at Best Buy now, not the $20 I remember from a year or two ago... sigh. However, I now have a working pair until I can spare the time to mess with the broken ones.