I deduced that my video card is acting up.

I notice that it cuts in and out when I bump the tower. So I assume it's a bad connection.

When I take it out of my motherboard, pieces come off in my hand.

Yup.

[This is not about current events in my life, but refers to a general trend that I have noticed over several years - one which I have sometimes exacerbated]

Online dating takes communication out of the nest of reciprocity that defines most of our social world.
Confer: Ursula Franklin's "Real World of Technology"

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PUBLIC ENTRY

I didn't anticipate that this would ever be necessary.

A lot of the people from the CFS executive meeting should be getting home soon, and some will be turning on their computers. Given this, I feel the need to relay the following.

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"Not only are you hard to get ahold of, your lack of a phone is making me question why I should have one: you get along without it and I can't use my phone to call you."
- Gavin

In the eighties, a few people bought video-phones, then learned that they were only really useful if other people had them too.