This right here wont be a silly (yet very lovable) picture by jeffrey. Notice the little blurb underneath the title, thats where the author is listed. And it says kornel. And that happens to be my name, not some exotic nut. Although some say I am nuts. But more on that another time. As I did no formal introduction before, here it is: Hello. Thats all you get so enjoy it. Anyways, to the point of this post.

I have a friend who has a rare form of perversion/fetish. He reads forums waaay too much. Especially about gadgets he has. Most normal people go to a forum to either:

1. socialize (I guess)
2. Help out other people because they like being thanked and also like just generally sharing their knowledge.
3. Get help
4. Geek out. Thats probably the same as #1 though.

And then theres that rare case of people of who read posts just to obsess about them. A prime example – our very own Bart. Actually scratch that. We dont own him, neither is he “ours”. If we had him we would sell him to some passerby. Not that we would actually succeed in doing so. Life is tough.

Back on topic (yet again). Bart got his Macbook Pro. Nevermind that it had 4GB of RAM for which he paid the Apple premium price of “whatever-it-cost-it-wasnt-worth-it” dollars. He obsessed about every issue there was on the Macrumors.com forums, and thought that he had it. He reinstalled OSX THREE times. Ok one time wasn’t because of the forums – he screwed up boot camp by trying to install Windows XP from a cd he found on the frickin’ SIDEWALK. Formatting the drive was the easiest way to fix it.

Of course, I was the one that had to tell him how to fix it. Wonderful. People, I am not tech support! They outsourced that job to India. So I was getting pretty annoyed. And then this arrived in my mailbox today.

Subject: NOOOOOOOOO problem with my mbp

Nooooo,
i have the horrible screen issue. the stripes at the bottom of the screen. What do i do?

At this point I seriously considered the idea of telling him that I will fix his macbook and instead blending it in my smoothie machine. Amazing what people can do to you with just a few too many support questions.

We still love Bart though. In a friendly way of course. Except for Alex, there may be more to his love…but thats another story! To conclude, Bart brings joy to our lives.

Once again welcome to Super Poultry. I hope you will enjoy your stay.
-Kornel