The other day, having just returned from taking our rambunctious beagle for a much needed walk, I entered our apartment to find Staz standing in the office with a terror-stricken look on her face. Assuming the worst (Spider alert) I rushed in, shoe in hand. Turns out it wasn't a spider, but the computer monitor was hissing, spitting, and throwing sparks (!) everywhere. Needless to say, we powered everything down. After a quick disassembly, I was rewarded with a view of the fried guts of the monitor. A nice blackened hole in the main board and some melted plastic around it pretty much abandoned any hope of repair.
This marks the 3rd time in as many months that something on our computer has sizzled, burned, smoked, or otherwise blown up. We now have two dead monitors and one dead power supply taking up space in our office. I have no idea what to do with them. Every piece of research on the subject says that THOU SHALT NOT put computer stuff into a landfill. So I'm still trying to find out how I can be rid of them and yet still be environmentally responsible. In the meantime, I feel like a Mir Astronaut. I know our computer is old, decrepid, falling apart. I just need to nurse a few more days, weeks, months out of it until we can afford a new system. We're constantly hitting our heads on it's paltry 10GB of memory, enough such that I'm getting another 10GB drive on ebay. Woohoo. Double the space!
So in the short term, we made another Goodwill run and picked up a $20.00 monitor. It works, thankfully, but it's Circa 1995. You'd swear at some point, it was used to play Space Invaders on a 2600...or Oregon Trail on a Tandy.
Thank God theres no thermal tiles on this thing.
Posted by J. at August 8, 2005 11:19 AMOr foam. Don't forget the foam.
Hey, where's that 5.25" Gauntlet disk? I think I've finally figured out how to use these newfangled arrow keys. Oh, and when I want to use the internet, do I type LOAD INTERNET or RUN INTERNET? Just curious. ;-)
Posted by: staz at August 8, 2005 12:52 PM