A Penguin in Purple Clothing

Tuesday September 14, 2004

Fixed my thinkpad

Yeah! I fixed my Thinkpad. I took the screen off of my old one and moved it to the one I got off of Ebay, and all is well. I have a working laptop again! I also moved the memory, put a new harddrive in there (cause the old one was making lots of noise). And I got a new battery out of the whole deal that holds a charge. All for only $100.

It is funny, cause the laptop I got off of Ebay had a sticker on it saying "DOD Sanitized". So, I can only imagine what this guy was used for before. Better not to ask.

In the end, I guess the system board was bad (or maybe the CPU). I may fiddle with the old laptop at some point, try to get it to display to an external monitor, or something. But, after using a Fujitsu for a few weeks, boy am I happy to be back on my IBM. I still think Thinkpads are the best laptops on the market...

And my friend Mike finally made it to SF (actually Fremont, but close enough). We are having dinner tonight. I haven't seen him in ages (probably 6 or 7 years). Well, he emailed me recently, said he came out of the closet, and was high tailing it to SF. I don't really blame him cause West Virginia isn't exactly the most friendly places for queers.

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