Recursion will kill you
I kind of doubt that what killed my PowerBook’s hard drive (and made it make that awful click of death) was the recursive audio/video feedback from turning the external iSight on the display.
Data is more or less preserved and backed up. I dropped it off for repair this morning (after spooning it last night), and it wasn’t expensive. The new drive will be bigger (100 gigs bigger). I’ll get it back on Monday.
I still feel a little torn.
To honor my dead hard drive and ensure its leisure in the afterlife, I’ll be burning Hell bank notes all weekend.
Digress after the
On Joss paper:
More contemporary or westernized varieties of Joss paper include Hell Bank Notes, paper credit cards, as well as papier-mâché clothes, houses, cars, toiletries, and servants. In 2006, China’s deputy minister for civil affairs, Dou Yupei, said he intended to ban at least the more extreme forms of joss paper, such as MP3 players, planes, boats and even paper condoms, paper prostitutes and Viagra.