dave... i can feel it...

i can see my laptop dying. rather, i can hear it. that painfully inevitable click click click sound which is the death knell for all hard disks. which makes you immediately panic and think, “am i backed up? (of course not. never.) am i backed up enough?”

so you quickly start trying to back up to something, anything, and you start doing a data triage—well, my corporate email is safe on the server, so i got to get my personal email safe, since it hasn’t been backed up in a month, and then i guess all the my documents stuff, and then what about all the detritus on the desktop? and then there’s the wares and stuff collected, and oh shit how about the quicken! dammit.

the downsides to larger and larger hard drives. and also the downsides of not going into work more than once a, uh, month.