{"id":101,"date":"2005-03-24T08:02:54","date_gmt":"2005-03-24T16:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=101"},"modified":"2008-06-22T11:38:51","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T18:38:51","slug":"dial-w-for-waaahhh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=101","title":{"rendered":"Dial &#8220;W&#8221; For &#8220;Waaahhh&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bother. I just got my brand-spanking new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/powerbook\/index15.html\" target=\"_blank\">15 inch PowerBook G4<\/a> yesterday, and already I have to send it in for repairs. Damn CD combo drive sounds, in the rather apt words of the Apple Support rep, like a dirt bike. Sounds like a balance problem to me.<\/p>\n<p>The bad news is that it has to go in for repairs. The good news is that they overnight a box to you so you can overnight it back to them, free of charge. When they&#8217;re finished doing the repairs, they overnight it back to you. The overall turnaround time, in my experience, is less than that of getting an on-site repairman to clear a place on his calendar, figure out where you live, get to your house, look over your computer, figure out that he doesn&#8217;t have the right replacement parts on him (despite the fact that you told the repair dispatcher <em>exactly<\/em> what needed to be replaced), come back two days later and repair your computer.<\/p>\n<p>So my computer will go out tomorrow, leaving me with a whole weekend with only my three-year-old PowerBook G4 laptop and my four-month old desktop Dual-2GHz Power Mac G5 blowtorch with which to work. I may not see the thing again for as many as five days.<\/p>\n<p>*Sniff* Can&#8217;t continue&#8230;.tears of inconsolable loss shorting the keyboard&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t bother wishing you could kick me in the ass. I&#8217;ve done it for you already. Kicking yourself in the butt, by the way, is hard on the ol&#8217; hip socket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bother. I just got my brand-spanking new 15 inch PowerBook G4 yesterday, and already I have to send it in for repairs. Damn CD combo drive sounds, in the rather apt words of the Apple Support rep, like a dirt bike. Sounds like a balance problem to me. The bad news is that it has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roominations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}