The Continuing Saga of Stolen Goods
I am writing this post on my stolen laptop.
On Saturday morning some dude called my parents' house and told them that some other dude had found my laptop in a snowback in Cambridge, and that dude had given it to his wife, who gave it to this other dude, who found my resume on the laptop and contacted my parents, then gave it to another dude who lived near my parents so that I could pick it up. I went to his house and got his from his wife. I think that's the chain of ownership. The message was a bit hazy.
So, I guess the lesson is that it pays to have a really crappy laptop with a visible damage to it, because when it gets stolen, the thieves can't resell it, and they'll throw it to the side of the road. The tough part is getting someone to find it and return it to you.
After copying the stuff off it that I needed, I wiped it and installed Fedora 10. This'll piss thieves off even more.
"What the fuck is this shit? It ain't even got Windows on it!"