Kitchcraft

So Nick called me “MacGuyver” today. It was a very proud moment for me. The act from which I earned my temporary nickname was basically putting my computer on ice.

I decided to do this once I diagnosed my computer’s crashing problem as an overheating one. The fans weren’t turning on and the machine would work only after long periods of rest.

First thing I decided to do was put it in the freezer. A laptop looks really funny in there, by the way. I took it out because I realized that the plastic casing was going to get cooled before anything else was.

So I did want any normal person would do and took out a bag of ice, put it in a shallow bowl and rested the laptop on it. Sure enough I’ve been working all day, no crashing. It took about an hour for the machine to totally cool down.

Yeah, I’ve go the country wisdom to keep stuff going. There’s actually duct tape holding the harddrive in, but I don’t even think about that anymore, until someone says, “You know there’s duct tape on your laptop.”

Of course there is.