Computers Are Evil
I recently had a rather bad scare with my laptop. I have always really liked my laptop. It's fairly tricked out given the price range I was in and has always treated me well. Boots up fairly quickly, connects to wireless hubs that are in the building next door, burns CDs and DVDs without errors, and generally runs flawlessly.
Well, that was, until very recently. My hard drive shat on me. Yup. Wouldn't boot. We (the computer-savvy males in my life and now me) think that it may be because I left it on too long. Now, it boots but it will tell me that it has recovered from a serious error. And I can't seem to be able to use my CD/DVD drive. Making it annoyingly hard to back stuff up. Yuck. I am still working on moving all of my stuff to a different drive via a network connection. Problem is, I have a ton of thesis data (figures, graphs, presentations, papers, and so forth). Really, I am just happy that the data isn't lost! Just one more reason that I hate my thesis, hate graduate school, and hate that I have to be doing this work from home instead of on the computers in the lab that are backed up on a server with a mirror server (just in case). Grrr.
But, computers are evil. My computer decided to die the morning I was going to print an exam for the class I teach. It is a long story, but the copy center can't accept e-mails so I have to go there in person. My plan was to print out the exam after a last read-thru and take it to the center. Well, when my computer wouldn't boot for five hours, I ended up dragging my mom down to school with me (an hour drive one way) and we both retyped the exam. She did the true/false and multichoice while I did the short answer questions. It was a mad scramble. It had to be to the copy center by 5pm and the exam was being given out to the class that night so it had to be done right then. Hence - computers are evil.
On side note: I own my mom BIG TIME! I would never have finished in time so I would have had to go to Kinko's and shell out hundreds of dollars (literally - 11pg exam for 50 students). Not to mention, I spent the time during the drive down polishing my lecture which would have been much worse without the extra time. I didn't plan on fighting with my computer for five hours that day. I have no idea how to repay her. I think I will have to paint a few ceilings to pay off that debt.
Well, that was, until very recently. My hard drive shat on me. Yup. Wouldn't boot. We (the computer-savvy males in my life and now me) think that it may be because I left it on too long. Now, it boots but it will tell me that it has recovered from a serious error. And I can't seem to be able to use my CD/DVD drive. Making it annoyingly hard to back stuff up. Yuck. I am still working on moving all of my stuff to a different drive via a network connection. Problem is, I have a ton of thesis data (figures, graphs, presentations, papers, and so forth). Really, I am just happy that the data isn't lost! Just one more reason that I hate my thesis, hate graduate school, and hate that I have to be doing this work from home instead of on the computers in the lab that are backed up on a server with a mirror server (just in case). Grrr.
But, computers are evil. My computer decided to die the morning I was going to print an exam for the class I teach. It is a long story, but the copy center can't accept e-mails so I have to go there in person. My plan was to print out the exam after a last read-thru and take it to the center. Well, when my computer wouldn't boot for five hours, I ended up dragging my mom down to school with me (an hour drive one way) and we both retyped the exam. She did the true/false and multichoice while I did the short answer questions. It was a mad scramble. It had to be to the copy center by 5pm and the exam was being given out to the class that night so it had to be done right then. Hence - computers are evil.
On side note: I own my mom BIG TIME! I would never have finished in time so I would have had to go to Kinko's and shell out hundreds of dollars (literally - 11pg exam for 50 students). Not to mention, I spent the time during the drive down polishing my lecture which would have been much worse without the extra time. I didn't plan on fighting with my computer for five hours that day. I have no idea how to repay her. I think I will have to paint a few ceilings to pay off that debt.
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