Off: Shoulda had ABS on the Hard Drive

[ECMnut at aol.com]

 I think I did something similar a couple months back..
It created a physical hard error on the hard disk..
It was dusk, and I was in the Syclone, doing thunder-runs
with the laptop connected, trying to make the perfect strip chip.
 Just after a good 0-80 blast, I was coasting about 20mph and
glancing forward while mostly looking at the laptop on the seat.
Just then I saw a pig standing 20 feet in front of me..  I'm talking about
acurly tail, fat litlle pink body, and flat nose..  I stomped on the 
brake pedal with both feet and stopped short of the bacon, but 
the laptop slammed against the dash, then fell into the passenger footwell.
When I told her about the pig in the road behind the house,
My wife said I was sniffing too much race gas, but a week later,
she was reading the local gossip paper's police blotter, which had
a report of a loose pig in our area, that broke into some garbage bags
and upset some homeowners..
Mike V

In a message dated 8/28/00 11:36:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
shannen at grolen.com writes:

> A small "PC fender bender" Sunday afternoon caused the loss of about
>  40K worth of data from one of my hard drives.  Some creative thinking
>  and lots of patience kept the damage to a minimum.  So far, the only
>  things lost were a couple of freebie utilities and (of course), just
>  enough of Netscape to keep me from getting back online right away.  So
>  without further ado I will go about catching up with the mail.
>  
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