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14 years ago
WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE WORLD OF THE GLASS JAW!
My tablets been showing its age, while ago I noticed two distinctive dead zones towards the bottom and towards the top. These dead zones span the length of the tablet in thin horizontal lines. When my stylus hits them there is a jump in my brush strokes. As you can imagine this is pretty irritating, but being cheap, poor and a proud hobo artist I've learned to paint with inside the dead zones and deal with it while I save up money for a much better tablet which seems to constantly get pushed back.
One day I became especially frustrated and started pounding on the tablet like a rhesus monkey. All of a sudden, fixed. When did this happen? I thought we lived in a time where when something was broken it was broke and you were shit out of luck. When did I revert back to the time when a good pounding on electronics served as temporary maintenance? The dead zones come back every time I shut down and start up but it only takes a light beating to get it in a working order again, I know it's temporary and the tablet still needs to be replaced and soon. But, I suppose Master shake his right. The things you own need to know you're in charge and you can only do that with violence!
Boxer
One day I became especially frustrated and started pounding on the tablet like a rhesus monkey. All of a sudden, fixed. When did this happen? I thought we lived in a time where when something was broken it was broke and you were shit out of luck. When did I revert back to the time when a good pounding on electronics served as temporary maintenance? The dead zones come back every time I shut down and start up but it only takes a light beating to get it in a working order again, I know it's temporary and the tablet still needs to be replaced and soon. But, I suppose Master shake his right. The things you own need to know you're in charge and you can only do that with violence!
Boxer
Just proves, that sometimes violence fixes things
I loled
Mind you, this thing had already been through it's eight levels of hell. It even popped off the back of a motorcycle going down the highway. The case it was in was destroyed, the laptop itself took minimal damage.
Finally, after a couple years of almost constant travel it refused to start up. I took it almost completely apart, reassembeled, power on... nothing.
Frustrated, I backhanded it like it owed me money. As it bounced off the wall and landed in it's original upright position on the desk, the screen flickered, and came to life.
And there it sits. I don't dare move it for fear it'll quit for good this time.