{"id":3643,"date":"2009-07-22T08:56:06","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T15:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/?p=3643"},"modified":"2017-08-18T18:01:34","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T18:01:34","slug":"call-your-hardware-vendo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2009\/07\/22\/call-your-hardware-vendo\/","title":{"rendered":"Call Your Hardware Vendor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imagebox\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/julianbleecker\/3744543114\/\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"JCB_21072009_161936_1419\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3482\/3744543114_3fc771260a.jpg\" alt=\"JCB_21072009_161936_1419\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t bad and its not a BSOD rant. Only, well \u2014 I guess it is in a matter of speaking. Perhaps not quite an instance of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/brucesterling\/sets\/72157619722832388\/\">atemporality<\/a> but there was a bit of a dizzy feeling I got when this crap computer I use every so often told me to call my hardware vendor. Who the heck is that, to start with?<\/p>\n<p>I enjoy these little moments like this. Desperation and the logic chips equivalent of doing a half-hearted shrug, trying to keep on a confident upper lip and then telling me to make a telephone call. Without a number. And to someone that definitely does not exist at all. Maybe they did back in the day, but now? Really? I wonder what they would say. Is it some old pensioner at one of those patch bay phone banks? That would seem consistent with the spirit of this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why do I blog this?<\/strong> Working around moments and instances of peculiar behaviors from our logic chip cousins. This might be a moment of atemporality, only not yet. If this showed up on a Netbook in 5 years it might seem positively baffling, I might suspect.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t bad and its not a BSOD rant. Only, well \u2014 I guess it is in a matter of speaking. 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