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brin-bellway replied to your chat: Re: Martha in Shakespearean England

The whole black-woman-in-Shakespearean-England thing is, as I recall, the second thing *she* asks about after “So, we’re not going to accidentally destroy my timeline, right?”. I love how she asks sensible questions like that.

OH! DOES she mention that? I missed it. (I DID catch the bit about the butterflies though. XD)

WHAT HAVE BUTTERFLIES EVER DONE TO YOU?
—PM

*pokes Youtube until clip falls out*

Martha: “Am I all right? I’m not going to get carted off as a slave, am I?”

Doctor: “Why would they do that?”

Martha: “Not exactly white, in case you hadn’t noticed.”

Doctor: “I’m not even human. Just walk around like you own the place. Always works for me.”

(P.S. The comparison isn’t that good, though. The Doctor isn’t human, but he can pass for it pretty easily. Martha not so much.)

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We Are Magneton: Welp, got duct tape on my laptop.

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It’s holding my casing together. XD

Awesome.
—PM

My last laptop had problems with the right hinge. It was held on (but stuck open) with superglue and a C-clamp for nearly a year. It was stable for quite a while, but during the three weeks after I bought…

The cost is no CD-ROM drive, right? Hmm, half the price in exchange for needing to borrow Mom’s desktop for Age of Empires and no DVDs without first ripping* and transferring the file. Too late for this time, but maybe when this laptop inevitably breaks down** I’ll consider it.

*Which would itself require figuring out how to rip DVDs; I’ve never actually done that.

**Not for a long time, right ‘puter? *pets laptop*

And yeah, duct tape is awesome. One of my winter boots has a tear patched up with duct tape. It’s shiny pretty grey, plus I can tell at a glance which boot is which. (I’d better like it: in Ontario, even towards the south I still need boots nearly half the year.)

[Edited because I’m so accustomed to HTML-ing my Internet stuff that I forgot I couldn’t use em tags here.]

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Welp, got duct tape on my laptop.

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wearemagneton:

It’s holding my casing together. XD

Awesome.
—PM

My last laptop had problems with the right hinge. It was held on (but stuck open) with superglue and a C-clamp for nearly a year. It was stable for quite a while, but during the three weeks after I bought a new laptop but before Dad was finished fiddling with it*, it started to deteriorate rather quickly. (My theory is that it was having a tantrum over having its restful existence as a spare ‘puter delayed.)

By the end, the hinge had completely detached, broken beyond what glue and a C-clamp could fix. The monitor couldn’t hold its own weight, so it had to be leaned up against the arm of the couch. (But it still worked.)

It’s finally sitting, lid closed (now that the glue’s broken, it’s not stuck open anymore), on the spare parts shelf in the basement. It’s very strange having a laptop I can actually sit on my lap.

(This sort of stuff happens to me a lot. I can’t afford to buy new laptops, so instead I get a succession of $400 six-year-old computers that last a couple years apiece, and most of that time with at least one geriatric problem. This probably has something to do with the Vimes Boot Theory. My current laptop had been on for a lifetime total of six hours (Dad checked) when I bought it, so hopefully that means it’ll hold up better.)

*Since the old laptop was still functioning-if-fragile, he took his time. Worst part is, it still needs tweaking.

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