This is the captain speaking. Please prepare for an unscheduled landing, ladies and gentlemen. Our little flight of fancy has been diverted due to a sudden loss of altitude. Our new destination is the record book: fewest visits ever this month. We’re witnessing history, you and I -- along with one, possibly two other passengers. … Continue reading : brace yourselves :
Tag: crash
: things that go crash in the night :
Or better yet, on a weekend. My laptop does that. It crashes and almost exclusively on a damn weekend. Late on Friday is particularly dicey. So, as a rule, I try to avoid using my computer after 4:00 on Friday afternoons. I just can’t afford a crash, you know? They’re expensive. Not to mention frustrating … Continue reading : things that go crash in the night :
: crash goes the computer :
It was an afternoon just like any other, I was at my compuCRASH. Surprise! Down went the hard drive. My trusty old computer is no longer so trusty -- well, it never has been. This is the fourth damn hard drive that’s crashed. But since it was the fourth one to go down in flames, … Continue reading : crash goes the computer :
: duck and cover :
Heads up, a six-ton satellite the size of a double-wide is headed our way. But stay calm, NASA has done some calculations and concluded that the odds of a human getting hit by debris are 1 in 3,200 -- not astronomical, but fairly unlikely. The odds of it being you, personally, are much, much lower, … Continue reading : duck and cover :
the whirly girl 