Sharpsicle
About two months ago, my Sharp Zaurus PDA/mini-laptop/whatever went missing. I'd been in the midst of a series of trips to conferences and lectures, so I didn't have a chance to launch a full-blown search for it until a week or two back. When I didn't find it, I assumed it'd been swiped from my office on campus at some point. I was annoyed, but there wasn't a lot I could do about it; I leave my office door unlocked (as most people do) when I'm in the building.
When I returned a last Monday from San Antonio at 2 am, I found the Zaurus sitting on the coffee table, with this Post-It affixed to it.
It was still wet, so I pulled the battery and set it next to the stove in the living room to dry out. The next day, I plugged it in.
It booted without any problems and has been running fine since then..
I asked my wife where she found it. Apparently, I dropped it getting into or out of my truck in February or so. Not only did it sit in the driveway, it was actually plowed up past the house into a five-foot-high snowbank by the guy who plows for us.
I doubt a scenario like this was in the design spec.
[via Underdog]
Posted by johndan at April 3, 2004 05:19 PM
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