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Synchronicity
Scene: Corporate Kitchenette #6351
A Tupperware bowl of Campbell's Chunky Sirloin Burger soup, carefully covered with a paper towel, is placed within a microwave oven. The timer is set, the cooking begins. Our Hero waits aimlessly for lunch to be ready. For some reason one of his favorite lines from GalaxyQuest floats into his mind, and he subvocalizes:
"The creature arrived inside-out.
And then it exploded."
And on the word "exploded", the soup did, in fact, explode.
Still no computer today. I went a little nuts and tried hooking up various old dead computers over the weekend. One got as far as a CHECKSUM failure and died before reaching the Windows splash screen; it absolutely refused to recognize a keyboard, so no adjustment of the BIOS is possible. The other just whirred and beeped for a while, but if any video signal was being generated, it never made it to the monitor.
A Tupperware bowl of Campbell's Chunky Sirloin Burger soup, carefully covered with a paper towel, is placed within a microwave oven. The timer is set, the cooking begins. Our Hero waits aimlessly for lunch to be ready. For some reason one of his favorite lines from GalaxyQuest floats into his mind, and he subvocalizes:
"The creature arrived inside-out.
And then it exploded."
And on the word "exploded", the soup did, in fact, explode.
Still no computer today. I went a little nuts and tried hooking up various old dead computers over the weekend. One got as far as a CHECKSUM failure and died before reaching the Windows splash screen; it absolutely refused to recognize a keyboard, so no adjustment of the BIOS is possible. The other just whirred and beeped for a while, but if any video signal was being generated, it never made it to the monitor.