If you didn’t know, one of my self-assigned responsibilities at MacMerc is to review computer software and hardware. Friday, I got a spiffy mp3 player from Rio, called the Fuse. It’s cool, and much less than an iPod. It worked as expected - until I upgraded the firmware.
In blatant disregard of the old axiom, “if it’s not broken, don’t fix it” I gave in to the geek credo “upgrade, upgrade, upgrade”. That is where my Fuse burned out, or without the colorful analogy, it stopped working.
Now, I didn’t do anything some poor hapless customer wouldn’t do. But since I am not a poor hapless customer, and instead a reviewer for the [blatant self-promotion] greatest pro Mac site on the ‘net [/blatant self-promotion] I have a decision to make. I could:
A: Blast the product in my review, gratifying myself with my own unabashed and sinister gall.
B: Destroy the Fuse, as a way of compensating myself for several wasted hours of troubleshooting.
C: Pretend I am a mortal in the world of computer peripherals and call tech support.
D: Perpetrate a diabolical crime, leaving only the dysfunction gadget at the scene.
Well, I wouldn’t be a self-respecting writer without choosing “C”, but I wouldn’t be any fun if I didn’t daydream a little about “A”, “B” and “D”. For now you citizens of metropolis are safe, unless you work at Rio…
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