Good Grief!

[Bill Henry-]

Since my wife was kind enough to give me an iPad for Christmas, I figured I’d be a nice guy and upgrade the RAM for her MacBookPro laptop. She had pretty much co-opted the computer anyway, and has been complaining how slow it seemed to be, so to keep her from whining …

I ordered another 2 Gig card, and following the instructions, removed the battery, unscrewed the plate that covered the DIMM slots (with three microscopic screws that kept slipping under my fingernails), popped open the compartment, and, lo and behold, I found a clump of dog hair wedged under the existing card.

I’m used to peanut butter smeared on the screen and dried out milk on the keyboard, but dog hair inside the computer?

What the heck?

 

[Larry Peterson]

One of my long dead cats used to sleep on top of a stereo amplifier. Slept on top of it for many years; just the right amount of heat for her. After she died, the amp eventually croaked too. I opened up the amp afterwards and it was packed to the gills with cat hair.

 

[Paul Cascio]

All computers include a vacuum cleaner as standard equipment. The fans that keep your computer cool, suck in air and everything else. I clean the fans and filters on all of my computers at least once per year. Laptops are particularly prone to shutting down if their innards get too hot.

Compressed air and a vaccuum cleaner work wonders.