My head explodes
You might think I've stopped working. Not the case. My computer has crashed spectacularly, twice, in the last two hours. Ha ha! Great fun in Torino! Fantastico! I will now try to recreate the lost blogs while setting a land record for bad words per second.
In the meantime, chew on this. My former roommate Jeremy had this theory about six years ago, when we lived together on Capitol Hill. He said that one day, computers would be like televisions. You just click a button, and it's on, and it works. No crashes. No blue screens of death. No Olympics bloggers loudly threatening to spread Nutella all over their laptops and then throw them off the roof of the Oval Lingotto. So if anyone out there knows anything about computers, tell me, please. Is this day coming? Is it almost here?
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No, sorry, the day is not coming when your computer will be like your television. Instead, the day is coming when your television will be like your computer - hard to set up, subject to random crashes, prone to refuse to display video because it doesn't think you're "authorized," and so forth. And no, unfortunately I am not kidding about any of this.