Two more things off my list.

[dreamshark]

I finally made it over to the University area to:

* Retrieve the bike pannier I had left at Thrifty Outfitters for zipper repair about 3 months ago
* Return the broken DVD drive to General Nano.

Thrifty did a great job replacing a very difficult zipper. It was kind of an expensive repair, though. In addition to the $25 to replace the zipper, I bought about $120 worth of clothes when I dropped the thing off and another $70 when I retrieved it. It was all on sale, though, so I was actually SAVING money, right?

I really did come out ahead at General Nano, however. When the DVD drive broke (2 weeks after I got the computer home) I replaced it with a practically brand new one from my old computer. So I returned the broken one for store credit and came home with a bag full of goodies - a floppy drive and TWO 1G thumb drives. I copied all the old floppy disks I could find onto hard disk before I stopped using my old computer, but I'm still not comfortable having a computer without a floppy drive.

Comments

[guppiecat]

Yep, this is America. It's not how much you spend, it's how much save. ;)

Also, I'd not worry about the lack of a floppy drive. I haven't had one for years and I don't miss them. USB sticks and CD/DVD media are far more reliable than floppies ever were. (Although, how a floppy can lose it's data in transit between the dorm and the lab, but retain it's data when accidentally zapped by a tesla coil is still beyond me.)

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

While there might not be a good reason to write NEW data onto floppy disks at this point, there are still an awful lot of old floppies lying around with data on them that one might want to retrieve.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

" there are still an awful lot of old floppies lying around with data on them"

Wasn't that the project for 1998?

K.

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

???

[guppiecat]

Just get a friendly hacker to write you some nice little malware to email data for you (they might do it for free), put it on a USB drive labeled "encryption key", then label each floppy "sensitive" and "classified", and leave them all outside some governmental office.

The friendly office employees will convert each floppy into an email for you. ;)

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised it was so much for the zipper replacement (not counting the shopping), but I am glad they did a great job for you.

K.

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

$25 was perfectly reasonable. It was the big semi-circular zipper that runs up one side of the pack and down the other. I honestly can't imagine how they replaced it without taking the whole pack apart and putting it back together. I certainly couldn't have done it myself.