Andre Garzia wrote:
ants tried to nest on my iBook... a gang of 4 monkeys tried to steal my guitar amp... I rest my case. Silly tropical country...
In the UAE I had termites that had lined the inside of a G3 (one of the beige lateral boxes) that had had a G4 processor bunged into it; while I was away in Europe they had chewed their way through 'Recherche de la verite' of Nicholas Malebranche (obviously looking for something) and taken the mulch to build a happy home inside the G3/4. On starting up the computer there was an entertaining pop and a slight smell of singed cardboard. The computer got thrown outside between a cactus and a palm, where, for all I know, the termire colony may still make their home. Interestingly enough, when I opened the machine there were also several dessicated corpses of cockroaches embedded in the 'cardboard' lining: whether they had been there before the termites or got dragged in there as lunch I really couldn't say. I was able to extract the hard disk without doing it any obvious harm and leaving the cockroaches in peace; it (the disk) is currently doing sterling service in my P4 Ubuntu box. I balked at the idea of buying a seconf copy of 'Recherche de la verite' and cheated by buying the Lennon and Olscamp translation: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Malebranche-Elucidations-Cambridge-History-Philosophy/dp/0521589959/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254409401&sr=8-1 and that served me, on the second read through, to show me just exactly how bad my grasp of French is. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
