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5 months agoHe’s not fooling me! That computer is switched off and he’s not even looking at the screen.


He’s not fooling me! That computer is switched off and he’s not even looking at the screen.


Anyone else see this as a gold nugget in the thumbnail?


I had one of these, it worked perfectly for years. I might even still have it. I remember it being a significant leap in size and cost per MB.
I was a bit of a deadbeat, I had a reasonably ok job but I was living in a tiny flat and spent most of the money I earned on drink and drugs, didn’t have a steady GF. I was into all sorts of extreme sports then and that led to a pretty serious biking accident requiring multiple trips to hospital. Was very lucky it wasn’t fatal.
It was 2008 and that was the turning point.
Maybe due my brush with death? I started to turn my life around. I stopped smoking. Changed my scenery. Quit my dead end job after finding better one. Moved from the city to the countryside to be with my girlfrend then got married.
It’s hard to think all of that would have happend if that tree hadn’t been growing in that particular spot for me to crash into. Things could have gone very differently.