Dearth of posts due to a broken laptop + magazine production cycle. So let’s rapid update this mother.
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My laptop broke down for the 4th time in the last two years on Thursday. This time, it was the video card. Who knows anymore.
I had the unfathomable pleasure of calling HP’s phone support to explain the situation. Pegged the over/under on time elapsed on the phone at 45 minutes, and then clocked in at 52 minutes before the ground level rep forwarded me to someone who could actually help. I think I’m starting to get a flair for this.
Eleven advisory board member (and all around bad-ass) David Strom was kind enough to lend me a spare laptop he had handy. It’s good to know folks in the industry. Relatedly, I’m pretty sure David has been blogging since the invention of the internet.
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In the meanwhile, it seems as though I’m not the only one in the family with a flair for entrepreneurship. Alyssa’s started a business sort of thing to raise money for Haiti….and even landed herself on Northwestern University’s homepage, including a video interview with the article. And for posterity’s sake:
Our grandchildren will see this.
Way to go, Alyssa! All the bracelets are hand-made, and all proceeds are going straight to Haiti. I hope she sends me a bracelet in exchange for the good press. That’s the way the system works, right? More likely, asking for a free bracelent in the mail (even in jest) probably just makes me a terrible human being.
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I wish I had something more asinine, biased, and pointless to write about. That’s all for now. Maybe later this week I’ll ruin the magazine and do a sneak preview of an upcoming new Eleven feature that I’m really excited about.