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the new ibm stinkpad laptop computer arrived only a few days before i would be needing it for a biz trip. i took it home to install some apps from cd. i noticed the cd drive had a little dvd logo. interesting, but i have to dvd's to try it out.
wait a second...i remembered, i do have one dvd.
over a year ago, a perfect mix of improper influencers (beer, late night television, wife sleeping, a telephone within arms reach, and a low low price) aligned. the result of this alignment was a purchase i can not explain (and probably shouldn't try). i am the not so proud owner of girls gone wild, episode 3. i am sure you have seen the late night commercials for these videos, they are the ones shot during mardi-gras when gravity is reversed and young women's shirts fly above their heads.
one would think that not owning a dvd player might detour the purchase of a dvd, but like i said, the influencers were strong and my mind weak. upon UPS delivery, my wife was less concerned about the content of the dvd than the fact i had purchased a dvd without a player. she was as perplexed as i was. with no player, the dvd was tucked away on a shelf and forgotten for a long time, til i saw that little dvd logo on the stink pad.
purely interested in only testing the dvd drive on the laptop, i inserted the dvd. it didn't work. being a mac guy i didn't know where to start troubleshooting. after 5 minutes of tinkering with no success i gave up and attended to some other things.
the next day i brought the stinkpad back to work for the net work administrator to install some stuff. she began working on the machine, i was very busy and sat with my back to her working on my desktop mac. she asked if she could use the cd drive to install software. i said "sure", not really paying attention to her.
"hey, that's odd, there is already a cd in the drive, what's this?..."
shit. my stomach flipped and dipped. i spun around in my chair so fast i nearly lost my balance. my face felt flushed and hot.
she pulled the cd out and held it up for me to see. it was the installation disc for adobe photoshop.
a large sigh released muscle tension and i suddenly felt like jello and slumped in my chair. "it's just photoshop" i said.
Posted by griff at December 31, 2002 01:27 AM