What not to do when your PS2 stops working - A Moral

Our PS2 recently just stopped reading discs. Period.

Now, it's LONG past warranty, and even if it wasn't, Mike removed the "REMOVE THIS AND YOU VOID THE WARRANTY" sticker for some reason. To get the PS2 repaired, then, would mean sending it to the service center with a check for $119, which covers repair and shipping it back to us. So I decided to do it myself.

Now, this isn't *quite* as stupid as it seems. While I'm not exactly an expert, I am quite adept at PC Hardware troubleshooting, and I just last week fixed what seemed to be the same problem on my CD-ROM, opening up the CD drive to do so. So, assuming it was likely the same thing, I got out my handy-dandy PC toolkit, carefully opened up the case, lifted out the mechanism, and got to work.

All was well until I went to replace it. Two slimline datashunts came loose from their housings. While they are simple "lever" connections mechanically, they require a LONG, NARROW pair of tweezers I don't have to reconnect. Without them connected, the dumb thing won't even turn on. And I'm not even sure that having the tweezers would help.

So I now have no way of knowing if my repair worked, and frankly I'm afraid to try. So I'm thinking I'm just going to wait until April (when I have non-spoken for cash) and just send the damn thing in to be repaired with a note saying "Yeah, I know. An idiot tried to fix it. He's sorry."

*sigh*

Curses to electronics manufacturers who always make cables JUST BARELY long enough to connect to their places, never leaving any damned slack to make field repairs.

Now I know how Richard and his dad feel about modern cars and the inability to fix them like the old cars.

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I watched the first two episodes of "Buffy" last night on DVD.

Damn. David Boreanaz WAS a hottie. Now, he's attractive but kinda squidgy around the edges.

Two things

1) I miss Jerry's question of the week. Even when I didn't have a response, the thinking was good.

2) Imagine our world in 2001 undergoing a massive cataclysm. When the dust settles, there are little to no electronics, a drastically reduced population, etc.

Needless to say, the music of the late 20th century is difficult to say the least. No synthesizers, no lectric guitar, etc. For a while, at least, people who can't stand more archaic forms of music (or who don't really understand it, thinking it's all dulcet meanderings on a zither or something) will try to keep Depeche Mode and the like alive acoustically.

My question to you is, what will happen to pop/rock music in the long run in such a world? How will it evolve? Will it evolve, or will it die eventually?

Have fun.